Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-04-05
Marie AntOInette

| Antoinette was summoned before
the revolutionary tribunal on the lst Of
AAugust' eno she was transferred to the
conciargerie as early as two 10 the morn
ing of the 2nd Although descrihsJ =.
perfectly calm and collected. she strucE bss
fOrehead 60 heavily against a wicket oata
as to have brought bloud.
The municipal Michonis INQUIRED If aha
bad hurt herself.
No. was the reply; nothing can hurt
me now
The two Richards, who bad been 40
kind to Charlotte Corday, were now her
goalers, and they treated her with the
respect and compassion dne to the maeni-
tude Of her misfortunes.
Unfortunately, the illjudged attempt of
the Chevalier d'Rougevillef 20 communicate
with the royal prisoner, led to the incar-
ceration OF the old couple and she lost their
services.
The hight before she was led into the
presence OF the cynical assembly, who
were to send her the to scaffoId wi s passed
In mendlng her clothes, which were al
most 10 rags, and she walked into the
presence of her inimical judges with all
the pride and dignity of Q daughter of
| Austria.
Her hair had become perfectly white.
and her counteuance had the ripiditv of
marble, as if her soul had already under.
gone msrtydom.
ChauVeau Legsede and Thomson Ducop.
dray has volunteers the perilous task of
being her defenders. The infamous charges
brought against her by the wretch Her
bert, upon the still more vile and iofa.
nous dispositions of the guaIer Simon. are
are given at length in Samson. They reflect
an lnetfable disgrace upon the court before
which they were uttered, and upon the ma
tion in which that court sat.
A shudder of horror peryaded, we are
told. the whole auditory.
Marie Aotoinette alone appeared insen-
sible to so gross an outrage, not only upon
fallen princess, but upon common bu.
manity, as she listened sstouuded to the
accusation of incest. but without allowing
even look to fall upon the utterer of SO
base calumuy. AZ she failed to answer
so unnatural an accusation, her Judges
returned to the charge and after q brief
interval revived the sccusation.
IF bave not replied said the Queen.
for the first wildly affected, 1T is because
nature opposes itself to such a charge
brought against mother. l appeal to any
who may be here
N6Cmcu ueI lie 10 ne
too worthless to care to dispute for posses
zion; but for the sake of her children. she
| court to be Incompetent to constitute the
wife of Louis XVI responsible for the acts
of king who was by the constitution itself
irresponsible. As to personal charges
| against herself they had brought none
except what were deserving Of the most
Infinite contempt. Her claims to exemp
ton were, however, as little needed as the
| plesdIngs of the two devoted men who had
rlsked their lives 10 her defence.
Mare Antoinette was indeed condemned
before she was put upon trial-the latter
was mere Judicial form gone through to
satisfy appearances. Condemned 10 f0IIou
her husband to the scGffold, Marie Antoi.
nette, worn out by her long trial, Silent
| three quarters of an hour in her dunOeon
after which she indited the letter TO Mad
sm Elizabeth, which never reached her or
her children, bat was found after ards at
the house of CouthOn by the conventional
Courtois, when be was charged with the
examination OF the papers of the triumvi
rate: Like the last words Of Charlotte
Corday, this last legacy of the queen is a
NOBLE legacy to futurity.
Charles Henry Samson bad been sum.
moEed into the presence of Fouquier Tin
Vile who inquired from him if the arrange
ments OF the 'fete' were all compIeted-
this was, we are told, the word be used
The executioner having replied that his
duty consisted in awaitius the decision of
the court, and not in anticipating them.
F"uduIer got into a tremendous passion
cor the reply contained u wage allusion 70
hts having at ell events anticipated the
| decision OF the court.
| 10 his passion he exhausted himself in
insults against the queen and her execu.
uuneer, and It was decided that the former
should be led TO the scaffold in the same
cart as other ordinary victims.
Marie Antoinette, who had declined all
aid from the republic, who were in her
eyes 80 many schismatics, and was finally
accompanied against her will BY the Able
LothrInger, received absolution from the
Able Magnien. administered from a wiu-
dow 10 the Rue st. Honors. As TO the
lps0its OF the populsce on her way to the
scahold, she confronted them without n
shudder or sign of weakness. In the
presence OF the scsffcli alone she uutter-
ed:
MY daughter my childrenp
Samson whispered to her:
Courage, madamep
'MereI, MONSIEUR, merci y she replied.
lie then offered to help her up the fatal
No, she said 4 shall, thank God have
strength to get up myself
And she stepped up with as much ma
Jesty as II they had been the steps of tbe
grand staircase at Versailles.
The assistants hSviDg sliced upon the
royal personage and bound her down to
the plank, she lifted up her eyes TO heaven
aud exclaimed in loud voice
! Farewell, my children ! am going TO
JON your father
A few shouts Of 'Vive Ia Repulioue p
followed upon the descent Of the knife and
one of che assistants, compelled to the
melancholy duty by the sword of Nourry
Grammount 10 fsnatical officer in the rey6-
iutlousry army, Who had put bis fist 10 the
queens face when being led to the scaffold,
and who now brandisbed the weapon to
which he was disgrsce, with the violence
OF msniac), walked round the scaffold
with the head of the victim, the eylids
being still agitated by conYulsivs shud-
der.
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