LOOMING INVASION AND PROVINCIAL REVOLT BRING PANIC AND HORROR
It is believed that opponents of the Revolution will break out of jail and attack when soldiers have left for the front. The approach of enemy forces leads a mob to slaughter them.
(On September 2-6 1792)
"With what torments do you not butcher Lamballe, the intimate friend of the Queen? You split open her body, dragged it through town, showed her head and heart to the King and Queen, confined in the Temple."
Death of the Princess de Lamballe by Leon Maxime Faivre, 1905 / zoom
Pictured after the account of Jules Michelet. He said that her very pale skin, a sign of aristocracy, contributed to butchering her corpse.
The mob brandishes her head and frightfully mutilated corpse on pikes in front of the royals' prison. Marie-Antoinette faints.
Her daughter will say that that was the only time
she saw her lose her self control.
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