Title Page
Epigraph
Introduction
A Child Marriage
Secret of the Alcove
Debut at Versailles
Fight for a Word
Conquest of Paris
The King Is Dead, Long Live the King!
Portrait of a Royal Couple
Queen of the Rococo
Trianon
The New Society
A Fraternal Visit
Motherhood
The Queen Becomes Unpopular
A Thunderclap in the Rococo Theatre
The Diamond Necklace
Trial and Sentence
The People and the Queen Awaken
The Decisive Summer
Friends Desert
The Friend Appears
Was He or Was He Not?
The Last Night in Versailles
The Hearse of the Monarchy
Self-Awareness
Mirabeau
Preparations for Escape
The Flight to Varennes
The Night in Varennes
Return to Paris
Reciprocal Deception
The Friend’s Last Appearance
Flight into War
Last Cries
The Tenth of August
The Temple
Marie Antoinette Alone
Final Solitude
The Conciergerie
A Last Endeavour
The Supreme Infamy
Preliminary Examination
On Trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal
Drive to the Scaffold
The Keening
Chronological Table
Afterword
Copyright