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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798539903321

Autore

Bashor Will

Titolo

Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No.280 in the Conciergerie / / Will Bashor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016

London, [England] : , : National Book Network, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-5500-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

944/.035092

Soggetti

France History Revolution, 1789-1799

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. The Conciergerie -- Transfer from the Temple Prison -- The queen's dungeon cell -- The horrors of the Conciergerie -- Kindhearted souls -- Part II. Rescue the queen! -- Royalist supporters -- The Carnation Plot -- The queen's new cell -- Tightened security -- Part III. The queen's arraignment -- Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville -- The indictment, the jury, and the witnesses -- The Revolutionary Tribunal: day one -- The Revolutionary Tribunal: day two -- Part IV. October 16, 1793: cold & cloudy -- The queen's last rites -- The route of the fatal tumbril -- The "national razor" -- Part V. The absurdity -- The unfortunates and the sole survivors -- La Cimetière de la Madeleine -- Epilogue.