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On this day in 1793, Marie-Antoinette was executed following months of brutal and inhumane treatment in the name of the people. She met her death bravely, moving even the officious hereditary executioner Henri Sanson, a man who was impervious to sentimentality, when she slipped on the steps up to the guillotine and apologized for bumping into him. He gently touched her and said Courage, Madame. One of the most unjustly maligned figures in history, her death occurred as part of the Reign of Terror. At the same time, up to 450,000 citizens were being massacred in the Vendée, which had held out as Catholic, in what has been described by some as the first wide-scale genocide in history. Why the calamity of the French Revolution is celebrated gleefully without any recognition of its many evils is beyond me.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:31:02 +0000

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