2007-02-24 10:18:29 · 8 answers · asked by ACE© 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Her and her husband betrayed the French republic, which originally made a place for Louis to have some political power similar to England's queen today. Louis and/ or Marie, who knows who, decided to escape to her relatives and eventually get ot Austria in order to field an army which could crush resistants to Louis reclaiming a role as absolute Monarch.
A radical lefty groupm called "The Mountain" was largely responsible for the executions of Marie and Louis. Louis was only voted to die for treason by 1 vote, almost no delegates showed up for voting either out of fear of executing a king or from fear of voting against doing so. Marie was executed as a traitor like several thousand others.
Personally I not sure what to think. The Monarchy didn't want to coexist within the slightly represenative governemnt of France and attempted to commit an open act of treason. For this they should have been dealt with severely. I'm not sure if executing them was the answer, but they surely would have been too dangerous to the French regime if they were allowed to live freely, or even in prison.
2007-02-24 10:44:43 · answer #1 · answered by 29 characters to work with...... 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No But the beheading of most was unjust it was a crazy time
2007-02-24 12:05:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - from the point of view that, if she had remained alive, she would have formed a focal point for the counter-revolutionaries.
No - from the viewpoint that she was an innocent who had little, if any, real political influence on France.
2007-02-24 10:47:25 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
never a beheading is justified. May be exile, prison, but not that. Who kills a person defending an idea, kills a person, not defend an idea.
2007-02-24 10:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think beheading her was right , instead I think of her as someone young being caught wrong time wrong place.
2007-02-24 10:28:13 · answer #5 · answered by di 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. The charges against her were ridiculous.
She showed more courage than those who condemned her when THEIR turn came.
2007-02-24 18:09:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, she was French
2007-02-27 09:37:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She should have known better than to joke about how her people were starving.
2007-02-24 11:17:35 · answer #8 · answered by Love YHWH with all of oneself 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋