The Second Death of Marie Antoinette

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A woman who became synonymous with indulgence spent her final months with almost no personal possessions, separated from her children, awaiting her imminent death.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Manky.
0:05.4	Listener discretion advised.
0:10.0	The streets of Paris on September 3rd, 1792 were chaos and anarchy.
0:16.6	Reaking of blood and sweat and spit, thousands of starving people and desperate bodies pressed
0:24.1	together.
0:26.7	Over night, hasty tribunals were built outside prisons for aristocrats to be swept through
0:32.7	one at a time, pulled from their cells in the middle of the night to stand trial for a
0:37.9	teeming crowd.
0:39.7	These trials would go on until sunrise.
0:42.7	Marie Antoinette, her husband, Louis XVI and their children, were still not technically
0:48.1	imprisoned yet.
0:50.2	They lived in a fortress palace called the Temple, under something close to house arrest,
0:55.6	forced to wait their days staring at walls listening to the mocking monotonous chance of
1:01.8	the guards and the cries for blood from the street.
1:06.4	One of Marie Antoinette's favorite ladies in waiting, the Princess Delimbal, was brought
1:11.8	into the courtyard.
1:13.5	The Tribunal of Revolutionaries asked the Princess Delimbal to take an oath, swearing her
1:19.0	love of liberty and her hatred of the Queen.
1:23.0	I can swear readily to the former, the Princess said, but not to the latter.
1:28.3	It is not in my heart.
1:30.8	Those with sympathetic hearts looked upon the Princess with horror, some whispered to
1:35.5	her, begging her to take the oath and save her own life.
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