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For three years, the King and Queen were held prisoner in their palace in Paris. Why were they eventually executed?

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By the time she was executed at the guillotine on October 16, 1793 (nine months after her husband, King Louis XVI, was killed the same way), she had been disparaged as a frivolous, selfish, and immoral woman whose lavish lifestyle had increased economic inequality. To be clear, Marine Antoinette was no saint.

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