The National Constituent Assembly tried to create a government wherein the king or monarch could share power with such an assembly, but King Louis XVI’s advisors had their own ideas. War also broke out between France, Austria, and Austria’s ally Prussia. King Louis XVI’s wife Marie Antoinette, who was born in Austria, suggested that her brother, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, invade France to help counter the revolution. That did not happen and the royal family was imprisoned in 1792. By the end of that year, another assembly formed called the National Convention and planned to end the monarchy in France. The new assembly charged the king with treason and beheaded him with the guillotine in January 1793 (via Britannica).
The assembly leaders moved Marie Antoinette to the Conciergerie, a large complex along the Seine River in Paris. According to the Conciergerie’s website, she was separated from her family and isolated from other prisoners. Two months later, the National Convention accused Antoinette of financial squandering, treachery, and even incest with her son, Louis XVII. Despite her emotional appeals to the citizens, she was executed in the same way as her husband King Louis XVI at Place de la Concorde in Paris.
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