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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 1d

Marie Antoinette, the former queen of France, was executed on October 16th, 1793. According to a revolutionary journal, as she walked up the steps to the scaffold, she stepped on the executioner's foot, uttering: "Pardon me, monsieur. I did not do it on purpose."

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 2d

At her trial, Marie Antoinette was accused of becoming "master over [Louis XVI’s] feeble character," forcing him to "do anything bad," and that he followed her destructive advice to the letter.

Her response: "I never knew him to have that character you are speaking of."

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 3d

On October 14th, 1793, Marie Antoinette was brought to trial. The conclusion of the trial had already been decided upon--the hand-picked jurors were told "national vengeance is in your hands." The trial lasted 2 days, ending in the early hours of the 16th.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 3d

I hope bluesky lets us schedule posts soon...

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 12d

The above quote was translated by Marilyn Yalom in her work "Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution." I highly recommend it for anyone interested in how the French Revolution was recollected by women.

Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 12d

Guénard (1751-1829) is one of the few contemporary well-to-do women to write sympathetically of the Women's March. Guénard was responsible for several of the apocryphal court faux "memoirs" of the 19th century, including the "memoirs" of the princesse de Lamballe.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 12d

"You have to be a mother and have heard your children ask for bread you cannot give them to know the level of despair to which this misfortune can bring you… her pain makes her capable of doing anything..." Élisabeth Guénard on the Women's March on Versailles of 1789.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 13d

The White Rose: "Why does the German people behave so apathetically in the face of all these abominable crimes...? Hardly anyone wonders or worries about it. It is accepted as a fact and put out of mind... [This] encourages these fascist criminals [to] carry on with their savageries..."

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 15d

Also reading the ARC! Or should say, I received it, haven't had a chance to dive in yet.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 15d

This is a myth, not a fact. There is no evidence "a lot of courtiers" or other people at Versailles did this on a normal basis. We have a handful of anecdotes of people urinating in public & being viewed as abnormal and gross for it, or someone peeing in a corner in an exceptional circumstance.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 24d

Yes, they bathed at Versailles... and had toilet facilities, too.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 26d

This one: www.ebay.com/itm/39703376...

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 26d

I ordered mine on ebay from US seller!

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 26d

Ordered my copy of the exhibition book!

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · 27d

Another myth for the book, as I've seen it a few times now. Marie Antoinette was not dressed in only a chemise at her execution. She was wearing a white gown over the fresh chemise that she kept, this was not a forced "sexual humiliation" as the author's suggesting here.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Mar 8

‘When Marie-Antoinette went to the guillotine, it was part of her degradation to be dressed only in a chemise. She had kept a clean one for the occasion.’

Rosemary Hill on fashion in the French Revolution: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Rosemary Hill · No More Corsets: Dressing the Revolution

Joséphine Bonaparte and Térézia Tallien developed a new way of dressing that freed the body and redrew the female...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 15

It wouldn't have taken very long by this point! A few seconds, a minute at most.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 15

A 19th century cabinet card of a woman and her cat. Taken at W.E. Service, of Bridgeton.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 13

Deborah Roberts is not pictured on the Aunt Jemima packaging... Deborah Roberts is a reporter who wrote a (misleading, not fact-checked) article about Aunt Jemima. Oh dear.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 11

Aileen Ribeiro's "Fashion in the French Revolution" is getting a new edition next year!

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

From a 1902 study on the history of smallpox in Europe. According to the study, prior to the development of the vaccination, smallpox accounted for an estimated 65% of all deaths in Berlin. Those percentages dropped to 2% by 1822, as the vaccination became widespread.

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

Royal families were at the forefront of vaccine support in the early 1800s. Frederick William III of Prussia, on vaccinations: "...one of the first duties of fathers, mothers, guardians, educators, masters, and all authorities that are entrusted with lives of children is to give them this blessing."

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do you not remember your own comment? You said specifically: "The “graphic adaptation” was banned due to explicit sexual content and minimizing the holocaust."

Are you not able to back up what you say?

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Iron Maiden Never Existed – But Louis XI’s Medieval Prison Reforms Did www.medievalists.net/2025/05/iron... #History

The Iron Maiden Never Existed – But Louis XI’s Medieval Prison Reforms Did - Medievalists.net

One of the most infamous images of medieval cruelty—the Iron Maiden—was never used in the Middle Ages. But a real reform by King Louis XI of France, the 'fillettes,' tells a different story about…

www.medievalists.net

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Aug 31

So you have respect for the fact that Otto Frank included this passage in his Typescript II given to publishers, and ensured that this passage was restored after the heavily abridged 1947 edition?

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Inviting History @invitinghistory.bsky.social · Aug 31

It is your monkeys and circus, since you're the one spreading misinformation.

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