Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine 16 October 1793 @credits On the 16th of October, at 12:15 p.m., two and a half weeks before her thirty-eighth birthday, Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the Place de la Révolution (present-day Place de la Concorde). Her body was thrown into an unmarked grave in the Madeleine cemetery, rue d’Anjou, (which was closed the following year).
Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine 16 October 1793
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On the 16th of October, at 12:15 p.m., two and a half weeks before her thirty-eighth birthday, Marie Antoinette was beheaded at the Place de la Révolution (present-day Place de la Concorde). Her body was thrown into an unmarked grave in the Madeleine cemetery, rue d’Anjou, (which was closed the following year).

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    They were….or, at least, we think they were (although a divergant strain of opinion has it that the bodies exumed were a...
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    Off the top of my head, yes she was reinterred. Her daughter was present during the process.
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    It was. They identified the bodies during the Bourbon Restoration and now they’re both buried at St. Denis.
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