IV.6. "I HAVE NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY"

 

THE QUEEN'S EXECUTION AND WHAT FOLLOWS

The Execution of Marie Antoinette on October 16, 1793, anonymous / zoom 

"I have no tears left to cry:"

For Marie-Antoinette's last messages 

to her sister-in-law and children, please click.

In brief

• Panic and massacre

• A prison that could have been worse

• Disaster

• Marie-Antoinette attains grandeur

• Louis XVII, a story that has no end

• The Obelisk announces a new era

• How France became a republic

• French Presidents, heirs of kings

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 4.6.1. 

Panic and massacre