Is this to be our prison or our home?
demanded Marie Antoinette.
The guards remained silent.
As weeks turned to months, the King and Queen tried to make the most of their new home.
They resumed their familiar daily routine, had furniture and clothes delivered from Versailles and even held the occasional party.
With their fate so uncertain, Marie Antoinette's main concern was her son, Louis Charles, who was now the French Dauphin.
The safest option would be to escape Paris with him, but she refused to leave without her husband. Only when the National Assembly threatened to take the boy away did the King agree to come too.