Marie Antoinette Moves to Pennsylvania
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Rewriting History
We know the inevitable demise of Madame Antoinette in the French Revolution on October 16, 1793, months after the uprising of French citizens stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789.
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The Real Story
Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV did in fact get raided by the French citizens, but Marie was cunning and dressed one of her maids in her own gown and headdress. Then, the Queen and King dressed in street clothes were able to blend into the rabble of angry citizens. The Queen had slipped a message to her loyal manservant, Ghione, and he arranged for a ship to be outfitted for a Queen, but had it had been moved to another dock just outside the city of Paris to go undetected by the police patrolling the waterfront.
Once the Queen and King walked through the throng of people yelling and screaming for the deaths of the Royalty in the Castle, which was quite upsetting for…
