Execution of Marie Antoinette: A Haunting Firsthand account from her Executioner | French Revolution
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- Witness the tragic final hours of Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, as she faces the guillotine during the French Revolution. Through the chilling, firsthand account of her executioner, Henri Sanson, we bear witness to her final hours following the execution of her husband, King Louis XVI during the Reign of Terror. Witness the somber procession to the guillotine, the hostile crowds, and the unexpected dignity with which Marie Antoinette faced her fate. This video offers a unique and intimate perspective on a pivotal moment in history, shedding light on a controversial figure whose life and death continue to captivate and divide.
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Editing: College Historian
Memoirs of the Sansons
00:00 Introduction
01:17 The Executioner’s account of Marie Antoinette's Execution
07:00 Aftermath and burial
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It's heartbreaking. That poor woman. 😢❤
Marie Antoinette died in a similar fashion as Elena Ceausescu. She also was wrongly accused of many things, because some powerful entities wanted her removal from power.
Please do a video about Elena Ceausescu.
A despicable crime committed by scoundrels.
They could have put her in a jail for Gambling Debtors and OCD clothes shopper.
Many innocent men, woman, and children died because of her lack of compassion for the poor when she could have influenced the king and changed some devastating econoic . policies. It happens in every kingdom the rich od on riches and de ons poses them. It happening here in US, the love of money is what is devastating this country the demons at it again. Most people really don't understand how evil works, but soon they will. Ghm
I have read in some historical documentations that Marie was suffering an intense and severe urinary tract infection that caused her immense pain, inconvenience and embarrassment trying to cover up the exudate. I don't know if this is true, but if it is, she probably more or less "welcomed" the end of this embarrassment and pain. In any case, there was nothing that could be done to cure this condition at the time of her execution. Perhaps packs and pessaries. But probably nothing would help. It is unlikely any medical assistance was requested or offered. This was an ancient prison, after all.
This is all the more reason to have compassion for this courageous woman. We all wonder HOW we could face the infernal machine with the courage she did.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
Retired surgeon
Read a version that she was menstruating and had to Relieve herself before her 2 hour Buckboard ride to the Scaffold .
I read she was very anaemic due to excessive menstrual bleeding and extreme stress. Her hair turned white overnight due to the immense stress she was under.
Unfortunately the Guillotine Blade is an instant cure for Migraines and Stress Anxiety , when they brought her body to the Grave the Gravediggers put her Head between her legs and talked to her while they ate their lunch . The French were so Tactful to their Austrian Mistress . To her Horror the Prison Guards taught her Kids how to swear like Sailors . Read Antonia Fraser's Book " Marie Antoinette " , she's wonderful , wrote " Oliver Cromwell " too , taught me about my semi-devient Ancestor . Oliver Nefarious who they blame for Charles 1st demise .
Fibromalgia and bleeding. She had to undress and change her undeware in her cell. The gard refused to turn around when she asked him so.
Sounds like she had excessive bleeding from Uterine Fibroids , but the Blade ended that Dilemma .@@bernardmauge8613
Its what happens when you put a girl with no experience and expect her to rule a country. She did not deserve to go this way. The fact that they put her in an open cart to add to her humiliation shows how much she was hated
She didn't rule the country. Queens of France are prohibited from reigning unless she is Regent. Ruled by Louis 16, Marie-Antoinette was very far from politics:
A letter addressed on September 22, 1784 to her brother Joseph shows the limits of the Queen's political influence: “I am not blind to my credit; I know that, especially when it comes to politics, I don't have much influence over the king's mind. Would it be prudent for me to have scenes with his minister on subjects on which it is almost certain that the king would not support me? Without ostentation or lies, I let the public believe that I have more credit than I really have, because, if they didn't believe me, I would have even less. »
She didn't rule. It was her husband. She was derided as a foreigner (she was Austrian) and was the most visible target for hatred due to her extravagant ways. She was just a pawn in a terrible game. Her poor son suffered horribly until his death.
So, you're of the "But But, it's not my fault" generation when a rich girl is hauled into court for driving while drunk and killing a whole family for example?
Look at the video The french revolution oversimplified to understand the historical point of view. Louis and Marie-Antoinette made fatal mistakes with the help of foreign countries. It's treason for a nation.
If she knew how her beloved son would end up, she would've gone insane.
Who was her son?
@@EMScott-le7vu Louis XVII. Died aged 10. Avail yourself of Google and read the horror for yourself.
@allyoopdan9 Don't be an arsch, Dan.
@@allyoopdan991 what was so horrific about poor lil louis 17's death by tuberculosis a pretty natural illness at the time. Far better then drawn & quartered or being burned alive though I suspect some pain was there it seems relatively quick for him. After all he died rather suddenly.... though he had been ill. Hardly anything horrific or sinister like poison or anything.
What they did to her children must have been horrific for her, especially her son just a little boy,hate stired up by people wanting power, blood lust, funny bit of that around today,
Evil to the core, just like nazies and zionists.
Stirred up by envy.
Is it happening in America as the Radical Socialist Left brings millions of illegals into the country?! 😱
To her Horror the guards taught her children to swear like Sailors .
Damn that officer tried to punch her....she didnt deserve to be executed
She had snowball fights while hundreds of thousands were starving. She was a monster.
Yeah that was pretty disgusting but not surprising. People suck.
@@pdmacguire She was a woman of her class who had no particular power to solve the economic problems of 18th-century France. The revolutionaries were responsible for far more suffering than Marie ever was.
@@isoldamRevolutionaries are almost ALWAYS responsible for far more suffering than what they're overturning.
According to legend, as soon as the guillotine knife touched her naked neck, all the roses in the gardens of the Louvre, Versailles, Tuileries and Saint-Cloud withered, as if mourning their queen.
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I’m not sure what you’re smoking, but please stop it!
@@frenchustube Are you generally a normal person? It's just a legend.
@@vollhov2370 after reading the comments, you never know
A true blooded princess💔
It seems the French didn't like foreigners and that has continued to today.
She was not "made" to dress in that plain, white gown. She chose to wear it. She had it tucked away for the purpose of wearing it to her execution because it was the only pristine garment she had left.
the open cart is called a tumbrill
Tumbrel
What I want to know is why Austria never protested against one of their. own being beheaded countries used to go to war at the drop of a hat.
The Austrian Monarchy fought since 1792 against the French Republic. (The coalition wars) The execution of Marie Antoinette was in 1793.
Austria was already at war with France i believe
also she did not hold much political leverage
There was nothing to protest. After she was detained with her family Austria Prussia and a coalition led by the brother of Louis xvi attacked us to restore them to power. We beat them at Valmy in 1792. People were so infuriated about it that they purged the nation of aristocrats during a period called la Terreur with Robespierre. Many places are called Valmy in France!
@@frenchustube Robespierre killed also a bunch of revolutionaries. And the end was Napoleon.
Unfortunately awful act
Couple things I think are worth mentioning. She may have not deserve to die, but she represented things that we French people hated. Hundreds of years of abuse to the French people by the monarchy and the aristocrats specially. You were sent to the gallies where you never made it back for poaching a few rabbits to feed your family. Hanged for stealing a loaf of bread. Taxed to death. You did not exist as a commoner,only the church kept records of birth marriage and death. -she and Louis xvi could have accepted the constitutional monarchy but instead they tried to leave the country in 1792 to join the Austrians (her native country) and Prussian coalition to attack France to restore them as absolute monarchs.
No tears were shed for her.
No wonder they hated her. Plus she was an outrage spender of public finance while the people were starving to death.
she was a girl....france was anything but civilised....and she had no say in anything her husband did...and the reign of terror was worse than anything the monarchy did
She was a victim of circumstances and it's disgusting what the french did to her. Read what really happened to her, if you can find it. She was a saint.
@@cecilyyates22 I am French I’m old and I’ve read French history all my life. She was no freaking saint give me a break.She had no regard for the well being of French people!
@@mottthehoople693 France was as civilized as the rest of Europe at the time. It was the age of enlightenment. The terror killed a lot of people. They guillotined my village priest in ’Lyon because he refused to swear an oath to theRevolution . It’s that part of our history where the revolution got out of hand. But you can blame the aristocrats for it because they refused to accept the will of the people. Like most foreigners you love the decorum of royalties, the castles ,the dresses, the carriages, but you’re not interested in the living condition of 85% of the population at the time.
@frenchustube no Saint. Give me a break. Old or not, you should know the history your speaking of.
....animals..
Barbarians of the dark ages.Where did much-vaulted chivalry of the white race disappear?
Heartbreaking, she did not deserve any of this....
Interesting
😢😢 Disgraceful.
Marie Antoinette was not the last Queen of France. Queen Marie-Amélie, wife of Louis Philippe was, who abdicated in the Revolution of 1848 and fled to England where he died in 1850.
Ive just been educated.
Interesting comment.
So thats what is defined as the tumbrills are turning.
Never knew that.
Extremely bad subtitles!!
The prophecy of the return of the great monarch.
The Queen and the sea
Marie wasn't french if memory serves me which is why she was either loved or hated & why when hated treated with such contempt.
Austrian
She is actually a Hapsburg.
REGIEME CHANGE WITH THE HELP OF...
my great grandmothers relatives left France at this time, their surname was Bourdon, my great Grandmothers name was Milliene Bourdon but the just called her Mill..(Bourdon translates as small Bee I believe?
All that to end up with Macron. LMFAO.
Machron is shorter than Napoleon 🤣
anyone noticed that statue of maria looks like Larry Fine
@EmarieT-cn1li It is a comment, it's an observation and if you look at the statue it looks like Larry fine.
Poor kids. Having to see thero mother’s head. Damn
Moral of the story
Dont eat too much cake
What happened to her head?
It was buried with her body. End of the vid says made tussauds made a wax copy
@@JamesT-ms9re But it also said that there was no evidence that it was made from the real head of Marie Antoinette.
En y réfléchissant bien,il aurait mieux valu les exilés que les exécuter
The crowds are like today's flagwaving students and cowardly collaborators. CHRIST IS KING
What did you expect from the french, as ever only brave when the odds are on there side , not so great when the German army came over there border's despite out numbering them 💩😱
You mean when Napoleon defeated armies bigger than him in Germany and Austria and made them all run home crying to their mammas?
@@mutteringmaleThe Vichy Government of France TURNED ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE LIKE COWARDS.
Or ww1 when they were horrifically brave... fought to a standstill
Ww2 they had no chance.. they had planned wrong. But Hitler blindsided the British too... the British expeditionary force got their ass kicked at the start of the war.
The stereotype of the French is ridiculous and absurd
@@NM-ub6ml Your forgetting one important fact; the French incompetents at the top had to continually execute soldiers for "cowardice" and such. About 918.
Sort of like the Russian commissars who followed the troops and executed thousands for the same reason.
This is how you make millions into decaying meat bags for your stupidity.
I keep wondering why no soldiers just simply shot their bad commanders, like we did in Vietnam (fragging)? I guess we Americans are more independent minded.
@@mutteringmaleNapoleon was Corsican. Ask Napoleon III how it feels with Bismarck's boot up your behind!
another Austrian??!
and who is the other Austrian
Was ist mit ihrem Sohn geschehen??😢
Some say he died in prison……… others say, he was switched in prison with a look-a-like boy & adopted & sailed to America…… where further tales are told ……rumors…… there’s even a Daniel Boone (old show) that allegedly he saves a boy who is ………
@@user-te8gm5qy1n no he died. His remains were never found as he was buried in an unmarked grave at St Marguerite cemetery but his heart was preserved . In 2000 the DNA was tested. It belonged to him.
France is paying today for what they did to Marie Antoinette and her husband
Oh? How so?
Open your eyes 😮
@@ivankesisoglu You made a statement, explain your comment. State your case.
She was pretty!
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What has that utter nonsense got to do with the execution of Queen Marie Antoinette??
How is your comment even remotely related to this video? And let me guess - Liberal Dem? 🙄🤣
Huh...?
A very poor translation.
Sad.