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Correction, she wasn't lynched. She was sent to the guillotine on 14th October 1793 for high treason. Her husband, King Louis XVI, the last king of the regime a
by mrlonglong 4y ago
Correction, she wasn't lynched. She was sent to the guillotine on 14th October 1793 for high treason. Her husband, King Louis XVI, the last king of the regime ancient had already been guillotined months earlier in January.
- tsol 4y agoShe also probably didn't say "let them eat cake"
- daniel-cussen 4y agoGregorian calendar? Julian calendar? French Revolution calendar? Which calendar are those dates in?
- dragonwriter 4y agoGregorian. France adopted it in 1582, and the French Revolutionary calendar hasn’t reached the year 1793 yet (and has no month of October, in any case), so it’s not even a possibility for that date.
- dragonwriter 4y agoAnd, to be clear, not for the (almost certainly apocryphal) statement, but for passing military secrets to a hostile foreign power.