Marie Antoinette

Read part four here. Every morning, Marie Thérèse swept her cell and quietly ate her breakfast. She read the books she had over and over again and spoke very little. She wrote, “My greatest unhappiness was that I could not obtain from them any news of my mother and aunt; I dared not ask about [read more]

Read part three here. Marie Thérèse’s father was executed the following day without seeing his family again to spare them the agony. “Shouts of joy” reached the ears of Marie Antoinette and Madame Elisabeth, the latter of whom exclaimed, “The monsters! They are satisfied now!” Marie Antoinette was unable to speak, but she, Elisabeth and [read more]

Read part two here. Marie Thérèse was deeply affected by the scene at the Tuileries, and the situation only became worse. In the following weeks, the quality of their life at the Tuileries went down considerably. The family no longer walked in the gardens as the insults were so terrible. Calls for the end of [read more]

Read part one here. Early the following morning, some in the crowd found a way into the palace. Marie Thérèse wrote, “At the same moment, the wretches forced the door of my mother’s room; so that one instant later, she would have been taken without means of escape. As soon as she entered my father’s [read more]

Marie Thérèse was born at the Palace of Versailles on 19 December 1778 as the daughter of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Marie Antoinette. Crowds had surrounded the bed Marie Antoinette laboured in, and in an attempt to give his wife some privacy, King Louis constructed a tent, but it proved useless. [read more]