Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie /
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days recreates in compelling detail the short but intensely agonizing period of the ex-queen's incarceration in the Conciergerie, Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen's life...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.