Anti-Reformer Who Lost Her Head

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com GuideSeptember 23, 2009

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September 23, 2009 at 8:19 am (1) Susan Adcox says:: Marie Antoinette–what an interesting and enigmatic figure.
September 23, 2009 at 8:42 am (2) Newlyweds Guide Francesca says:: What an awful way to die! I can’t imagine how people used to watch such horror. I do appreciate, however, your play on words — “who lost her head”.
September 23, 2009 at 9:08 am (3) Rain says:: Can’t think of Marie without thinking Sofia Coppola these days…
September 23, 2009 at 9:30 am (4) Beth says:: I always end up ruminating about elegance gone awry when I think about Marie Antoinette.

September 23, 2009 at 9:32 am (5) Nancy says:: I’ve always felt sorry for Marie Antoinette. She wasn’t very prepared to be queen of France during the time of revolutionary turmoil.
September 23, 2009 at 2:34 pm (6) Lisa Taylor says:: And what a lovely head it was to lose!
September 23, 2009 at 6:05 pm (7) Sukhmandir Kaur says:: The guillotine seems so brutal and barbaric, but supposedly was state of the art humane execution for the times.