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Beheaded: The Tragic Story of Marie Antoinette, Madame Du Barry, Madame Roland and Olympe de Gouges

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1793. The French Revolution, which determined the entire subsequent history of Europe, is in full swing. The authorities of the Republic are judging four women: the trendsetter Madame Roland, the tireless defender of women's rights Olympe de Gouges, the wasteful former favorite of Louis XV Madame Du Barry and, finally, the frivolous Queen Marie Antoinette. All of them fell victim to the revolution and its favorite weapon - the guillotine. Historian Cecile Burley recreates in detail the last days of these influential, extraordinary and very different women, from arrest to sentencing and subsequent execution...

"What was going on in the heads of these women, deprived of their freedom and declared the worst enemies of a political regime that was born in unprecedented, exceptional and cruel conditions? How did they endure all the public humiliations and attacks on their personal, even intimate lives? How did they fight the restrictions of prison and the fear of death? How did one prepare for the scaffold? How to understand emotions that belong to the realm of the unattainable? (Cecil Burleigh)
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