Marie Antoinette's darkest days
Subtitle: prisoner no. 280 in the Conciergerie
By: Will Bashor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781442254992
Subjects: Death and burial; Imprisonment; Trials, litigation; History
Other titles: Prisoner no. 280 in the Conciergerie
Description: The book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half months would pass before she would finally stand trial and be convicted of the most ungodly charges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Conciergerie; title: Transfer from the Temple Prison; title: The queen's dungeon cell; title: The horrors of the Conciergerie; title: Kindhearted souls; title: Part II. Rescue the queen!; title: Royalist supporters; title: The Carnation Plot; title: The queen's new cell; title: Tightened security; title: Part III. The queen's arraignment; title: Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville; title: The indictment, the jury, and the witnesses; title: The Revolutionary Tribunal: day one; title: The Revolutionary Tribunal: day two; title: Part IV. October 16, 1793: cold and cloudy; title: The queen's last rites; title: The route of the fatal tumbril; title: The "national razor"; title: Part V. The absurdity; title: The unfortunates and the sole survivors; title: La Cimetière de la Madeleine.