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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie

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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie - Bashor, Will
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The 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. 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. 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 ...

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Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie 2020, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781538138908

Trade paperback

Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days: Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie 2016, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442254992

Hardcover