The Queen's Answer

There were still loyalists in france who tried to imagine ways the queen could escape. A former military officer, alexandre de rouville, dropped a single red carnation at her feet. Inside the ly packed petals, there was a tiny note. The note had a plan for escape. But before the plan had even begun, it was foiled. In tiny letters, with a pin, the queen had punctured the letters of the word negative. When marie antoinette was finally brought in for her trial, there were gasps from the crowd. They knew the queen from her glistening portraits and from the propaganda that was circulated depicting her as a wild