
The Second Death of Marie Antoinette
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The Second Death of Marie Antoinette
Marie antoinette was accused of sexual abuse, that she had laid with him in bed and taught him pernicious practices. The queen's famous hair was cut short at the neck to make the guillotine's journey easier. Like her first death on an island in the middle of the rhine so many years ago, the second death also began with being stripped down. She begged for them to leave her to change in privacy, but they refused. And so under the eyes of men who hated her, marieAntoinette shed her morning clothes and put on white.
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