2006-11-30 11:32:35 · 4 answers · asked by BABYCAKES92 1 in Travel ➔ France ➔ Paris
On the morning of October 16, 1793, a guard arrived to cut her hair and bind her hands behind her back. She was forced into a tumbril and paraded through the streets of Paris for over an hour before reaching the Place de la Révolution where the guillotine stood. She stepped down from the cart and stared up at the guillotine. The priest who had accompanied her whispered, "This is the moment, Madame, to arm yourself with courage." Marie Antoinette turned to look at him and smiled, "Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me." Legend states that her last words were, "Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose," spoken after she had accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot.
At 12:15, Marie Antoinette was executed. Her head was exhibited to a cheering crowd. The bodies of Marie, Louis XVI and Madame Elisabeth (Louis' sister) were buried in a mass grave near the location of today's La Madeleine church and covered in quicklime. Following the restoration of the Bourbons, a search was conducted for the bodies. On January 21, 1815, more than twenty years after her death, her corpse was exhumed - a lady's garter helped with identification - and Marie Antoinette was buried at the side of her spouse in the crypt of St. Denis Basilica just outside of Paris, the traditional final resting place of French monarchs.
2006-11-30 11:42:48 · answer #1 · answered by Johnnysbar 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
St. Denis but only after Napolean had their bodies found and moved there. They were at first placed in community graves.
2006-11-30 11:38:46 · answer #2 · answered by itsgood2b_king 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO SHE'S BURIED AT THE CATHEDRAL AT ST. DENIS
2006-12-01 03:00:54 · answer #3 · answered by legrandchat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
duh
2006-11-30 11:34:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋