Mediaeval and modern history . izedTerror was the queen. The attention of the Revolutionists hadbeen turned anew to the remaining members of the royal familyby reason of the recognition by the allies of the Dauphin as kingof France,^^ and by the recent alarming successes of their armies. The queen, who had now bornenine months imprisonment, wasbrought before the terrible Revo-lutionary Tribunal and condemnedto the guillotine. She was con-veyed in a common cart to thesame spot where, less than a yearbefore, her husband had she first appeared in thechamber of the dread tribunal,wit
Mediaeval and modern history . izedTerror was the queen. The attention of the Revolutionists hadbeen turned anew to the remaining members of the royal familyby reason of the recognition by the allies of the Dauphin as kingof France,^^ and by the recent alarming successes of their armies. The queen, who had now bornenine months imprisonment, wasbrought before the terrible Revo-lutionary Tribunal and condemnedto the guillotine. She was con-veyed in a common cart to thesame spot where, less than a yearbefore, her husband had she first appeared in thechamber of the dread tribunal,with her robes disordered, her hairblanched from anguish, and herface furrowed with sorrow, — sochanged from that fair vision ofbeauty once the center of the bril-liant court of Versailles,^^ — a waveof pity had rushed over the hearts of all beholders ; but the risingtide of sentiment had been checked, and now a hideous mobof men and women howled with savage delight around the cartwhich bore the unhappy queen to the fiS^. Fig. 91. — The Guillotine 19 The Dauphin, a mere child of eight years, was recognized as king of France by-several of the great powers in January, 1793. -^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^ prisoner in theTemple. He died in 1795, his death having been caused or at least hastened by thebrutal ill usage he received at the hands of his jailers. 20 It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, thenthe Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardlyseemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, deco-rating and cheering the elevated sphere she just had begun to move in, — glittering likethe morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.—Burke, Reflections on theFrench Revolution. EXECUTION OF THE GIRONDINS 529 We need not speak of the faults of Marie Antoinette, thoughthey were many; her patience, her heroism, and her sufferingswere ample atonement for them all. 590. Execut
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