Marie Antoinette | At The Mercy of The Mob | 3

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Fresh from storming the Bastille, the revolutionaries are coming for the royals at Versailles. Marie Antoinette avoids a massacre by clever use of a secret passage - but perhaps it’s time to flee the country altogether? A plan is hatched… but fate is against them.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the third episode of our series on Mary Antoinette.
0:15.5	We left you with Marie Antoinette mourning the death of her son.
0:19.6	She's become the most hated women in France,
0:23.1	a figurehead for all that's wrong,
0:25.2	in a country that's rotting from the top down,
0:28.1	a country that is crying out for change.
0:31.1	Her husband, Louis, the King,
0:33.1	is struggling to deal with increasingly rebellious and angry subjects.
0:38.2	France and Paris in particular are tinderboxes,
0:42.3	a country and a capital ready to explode with one spark.
0:46.0	And if it does, the lives of Marianne Antoinette, Louis,
0:50.1	and their two remaining children,
0:51.5	will be at the mercy of the people.
0:54.3	The people who hate her.
1:05.9	From Wondery and Goalhanger, I'm Peter Frankapen.
1:09.0	I'm Afwa Hirsch.
1:10.1	And this is Legacy,
1:11.7	the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived,
1:16.1	and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve.
1:33.4	This is Mariannezzanette, episode three, at the history of France, Peter.
2:01.1	14th July, 1789.
2:04.0	We call it Bastille Day, the Catonchrier.
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