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  2. Marie Antoinette - Wikipedia

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    The first meeting took place on 22 February 1787, nine days after the death of Vergennes on 13 February. Marie Antoinette did not attend the meeting and her absence resulted in accusations that the Queen was trying to undermine its purpose. [121] [122] The Assembly was a failure. It did not pass any reforms and, instead, fell into a pattern of ...

  3. Carnation Plot - Wikipedia

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    The execution of Marie Antoinette on 16 October 1793. Later, on 3 September, Jean Gilbert announced the planned escape. The public was amazed, and the Convention took drastic measures. [8] Rougeville moved to Reims, and died there in 1814. The other members, Michonis, Toussaint Richard, and Madame Richard were all arrested.

  4. Reign of Terror - Wikipedia

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    On 16 October Marie Antoinette was executed. The trial of the Girondins started on the same day; they were executed on 31 October in just over half an hour by Charles-Henri Sanson . [ 52 ] [ full citation needed ] [ 53 ] Joseph Fouché and Collot d'Herbois suppressed the revolt of Lyon against the National Convention , while Jean-Baptiste ...

  5. Affair of the Diamond Necklace - Wikipedia

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    Marie Antoinette's Execution on 16 October 1793. The Diamond Necklace Affair heightened the French general public's hatred and disdain for Marie Antoinette since it was "designed to leave the queen in a state of scandal, with the impossibility of claiming any truth for herself". [13]

  6. Martyrs of Compiègne - Wikipedia

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    Her dowry to enter the convent was paid by Marie Antoinette. [32] She almost escaped execution when she returned to her family's home in Paris to care for her widowed mother who was ill, but she returned to Compiègne on 13 July 1794. [33] Mother St. Louis, sub-prioress (Marie-Anne, or Antoinette, Brideau). Born in Belfort, 7 December 1752.

  7. October 16th in history: Marie Antoinette was beheaded ... - AOL

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    Marie Antoinette was beheaded on October 16th in 1793. The former royal's trip to the guillotine was sparked by monarchy reform and French Revolution angst. Other events on October 16th in History ...

  8. Place de la Concorde - Wikipedia

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    In October 1792, the first executions by guillotine in the square took place. The two people who were executed were thieves who had stolen the royal crown diamonds from the Hotel de la Marine. On 21 January 1793, King Louis XVI was executed there, followed in the same year on 16 October by Queen Marie Antoinette.

  9. Revolutionary Tribunal - Wikipedia

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    Trial of Marie Antoinette on 15 Oct 1793. The court was to hear cases of alleged counter-revolutionary offences from across France. It was composed of a jury of twelve. This was an innovation in French justice, borrowed from English law (although for the Revolutionary Tribunal the jury was carefully selected from politically reliable activists).