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Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Marie Antoinette Models the Heads of the Guillotined Heads

As the revolution turned obviously, marie's work became a lot grimmer. She started to model the guillotined heads of her supposed former friends at versailles. And this is a really poignant part of the tisa legend. You know, she claimed to have moulded the heads of the princess de lambal who had been tortured for four hours at the tuileries massacre louis the sixteenth. Perhaps unlikely, though, considering the efforts that the revolutionaries would take to erase all relics of the royal.

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