Marie Antoinette’s Last Moments



This is also untold.

The date of Marie Antoinette’s Death

Marie Antoinette suffered from illness of losing blood.

Rosalie gave her the last soup. Rosalie saw her "carefully roll up her pitiful bloodstained chemise, tuck it in one of its own sleeves, as in a sheath and them look anxiously around her as though seeking some object she feared not to find.

She was then dragged out to her last waiting.

While she waited, she asked the gendarme, "do you think the people will let me go to the scaffold without tearing me in pieces?" Nobody answered her question.

Then she was taken to the executor.

"Hold out your hands."

Marie Antoinette asked in a frightened voice, "are my hands to be bound?"

The executor nobbed his head. She exclaimed, "Louis XVI’s hands were not bound."

Then the executor took off the bonnet she hard arranged and cut her gray hair. The executor pocked her hair which was soon burned. Then she was put on the car t to the place she must go.

While she waited, she asked the gendarme, "do you think the people will let me go to the scaffold without tearing me in pieces?" Nobody answered her question.

Then she was taken to the executor.

"Hold out your hands."

Marie Antoinette asked in a frightened voice, "are my hands to be bound?"

The executor nobbed his head. She exclaimed, "Louis XVI’s hands were not bound."

Then the executor took off the bonnet she hard arranged and cut her gray hair. The executor pocked her hair which was soon burned. Then she was put on the car t to the place she must go.

The gullotine gate was opened. The crowd was in silence. Marie Antoinette seemed to see nothing with her motionless, bloodshot eyes.

As more people gathered, they shouted, "death to the Austrian, long live the republic!"

Marie Antoinette died…

The body and a separated head was taken to Madeleine cemetery. Then the executioners noticed there was not a coffin or grave prepared for her. They just threw her body on the grass, with the head between her legs.


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