After two days in the courtroom, the jury wrote down their verdict and asked the Queen to read it. Guilty. She was sentenced to follow her husband to the guillotine.
Marie Antoinette refused to show any emotion. Rejected as a queen, deprived of her husband and insulted as a mother, she no longer had a role to play in life.
The next morning, she boldly climbed the execution platform. Stopping only to apologize for stepping on a guard's toe, she lay her head under the guillotine blade and left the bloody revolution behind her.