Marie Antoinette beheaded

After her husband's death, in July 1793, Marie Antoinette 's son was forcibly taken from her. Marie Antoinette begged for her son to be allowed to stay with her but she was unable to change the will of the ministers. Marie Antoinette 's son was put under the care of Simon, a cobbler and one of the Commissaires of the Commune. Within two years, he later died of neglect .

In September 1793, Marie Antoinette was separated from her daughter and sister in law. She was transferred to months of solitary confinement in the dank Conciergerie prison, where she was under twenty-four hour guard by revolutionaries. The Conciergerie prison was the antechamber to death.

On October 14, 1793, Marie Antoinette stood before the Revolutionary Tribunal, the medieval court. Marie Antoinette knew that she will be beheaded with the guillotine. 

At 4:30 a.m., on October 16, 1793, her execution day, Antoinette wrote a letter of farewell to her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth, asking for forgiveness and explaining how she felt about her inevitable death. Then, at 10:00 a.m., Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded by guillotine for being an enemy of the revolution. Madame Elisabeth never received the letter and in 1794 she was also beheaded under the guillotine.