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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days by Will Bashor
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days by Will Bashor





Marie Antoinette must be one of the best known-about historical figures of all time, but not the best known. I was riveted by this book from start to tragic finish. Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen’s life, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history. Marie Antoinette’s reign amidst the splendors of the court of Versailles is a familiar story, but her final imprisonment in a fetid, dank dungeon is a little-known coda to a once-charmed life. 280, a time that was a cruel mixture of grandeur, humiliation, and terror. Will Bashor traces the final days of the prisoner registered only as Widow Capet, No. 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.

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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.

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This compelling 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.







Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days by Will Bashor