Why was maria antoinette beheaded?

Question

and was she really put in prison

Answer 1

It was during the French revolution, when the monarchy was overthrown and a republic established. Marie Antoinette is perhaps best remembered for her legendary excesses and for her death: she was executed by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 for the crime of treason.

Answer 2

Some of the aristocracy, including some members of the Bourbon family, had managed to escape France. The royal family (sorry, Citizens Louis and Marie Bourbon and children) attempted to leave the country, but were discovered. There was also an effort on behalf of the Austrians, including Maria Therese, the former queen's mother, to mount a campaign to rescue the crown of France from the Revolution. This attempted departure, on the part of the Bourbons, and the threat of foreign invasion from the inlaws, lead to their arrest.

The National Razor, as the Guillotine had come to be called, was employed in all executions. The Revolutionary leaders believed that there should be equality in death for all citizens, King and commoner alike. Decapitation had always been employed for nobility, but hanging, even the English practice of hanging someone halfway, then cutting them down, and cutting them open, pulling out their intestines while they were still alive, and asking them to confess to end the suffering. They were later pulled apart by horses tied to each limb. This is called Half hanging, drawing and quartering. It was usually reserved for treason. If you saw Braveheart, you have some idea of what this was like.

Hanging in any instance is difficult for the executed, but if done poorly, such as with a rope that is not pre-stretched, or a poorly tied knot, or even a rope that is too long, can result in strangulation. The merciful way, if it can be called that, to hang someone is to give them a short drop, on a taut rope, that breaks their necks.

Answer 3

She was trying to copy MY look - who did she think she was?

Answer 4

I wonder how many "Cake or Death" jokes have been made about her since she lost her head so if you don't mind I am going to watch this one cuz I bet you will get some pretty interesting answers.

Answer 5

she was put in prison and was beheaded along with most of the French aristocracy, as the revolutionaries did not want another king or queen after they had beheaded the old one, so they tried to completely exterminate the French royal line. it's debatable whether she was as nasty as people say

Answer 6

She served really bad cake that gave everyone the runs

Answer 7

She sneered at the french common blood and believed herself untouchable due to her personal deitificaion.  She revealed a fundamental flaw found of monarchs...They don't give a ****.

Answer 8

Marie and King Louis XVI were both executed for living a life of luxury while France and it's people were starving.  Marie was never popular because she was Austrian and never respected the French way of life.  Marie and Louis both squandered the countries money away.  Marie was imprisoned in the Tower of London and the Conciergerie before her execution.

Answer 9

She was put in prison, and she was beheaded because she was seen as a symbol of excess while the pesentry starved.

Answer 10

Yes, Marie Antoinette was imprisoned during the Revolution.  She was never kept in the Tower of London; she had never even visited London.  The French royal family was essentially under house arrest after they had tried to escape to Montmedy, which was a royalist stronghold.  She was kept in the Tuileries (which was a palace, although a ruined one), the Temple in the Marais, and the Conciergerie.  None of these buildings had been built as prisons; the Temple had formerly been a church and the Conciergerie had been a royal palace.

In any case, she was executed because she had been queen of France and was the unpopular widow of an unpopular king.  Louis XVI had been executed in January 1793, as a traitor to the Republic.  Marie Antoinette was brought to trial partly due to infighting among the revolutionary factions (Girondins and Jacobins).  She was given only a day to prepare for the trial in October 1793 and was not permitted to defend herself.  Historians largely believe that she was innocent of the charges that were actually brought against her.

Marie Antoinette was executed during the period known as the Terror.  Thousands of people were executed as counter-revolutionaries during that time, either because they were loyal to the monarch or because they weren't considered revolutionary enough.  The Jacobin faction set up the Committee of Public Safety and used it to destroy the Girondin faction before being consumed by it themselves.  Many believe that the Committee paved the way for Napoleon to become Emperor of a country that had rejected that type of government.

Answer 11

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