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Marie Antoinette and her Children: The shocking accusations at Marie Antoinette’s Trial

By Culture& Stuff | Published: April 2, 2010
The most striking thing about reading the record of Marie Antoinette’s trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal in October 1793 is realising what an astonishing mess the whole thing really was. In most other accounts, revolutionary justice always seems so swift, so merciless, so ruthlessly efficient. Many of those who stood trial before the Tribunal had [...]
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Marie Antoinette and her Children: The mystery and the history of Louis Charles in the tower. Part 1

By Culture& Stuff | Published: March 10, 2010
On the morning of 11th August 1792, an exhausted and increasingly sweaty royal family sat in the reporters’ box of the National Assembly, a stone’s throw from the Seine in Paris. The night before, the Tuileries (the 16th-century royal palace near the Louvre which had been their residence since they were removed from Versailles in [...]
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Marie Antoinette and her Children: A new, multi-part series on Culture&Stuff

By Culture& Stuff | Published: February 22, 2010
In 1786, Marie Antoinette and her children posed for a portrait by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (click the image above for the full version). At first glance, the resulting picture presents a happy image. Madame Royale gazes lovingly up at her mother, the infant Duc de Normandie bounces on her lap, and the Dauphin looks every [...]
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