IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE 3 | A la Conciergerie

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE | EPISODE 3 CATRIONA SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/fi…ssor-catriona-seth), heads for Paris in her pursuit of Marie-Antoinette. First stop is the CONCIERGERIE, where Marie-Antoinette spent her final days before being executed on 16 October 1793 at the age of 37, to meet CECILE RIVES (Administratrice Conciergerie/Sainte-Chapelle/Tours de Notre-Dame de Paris http://www.paris-conciergerie.fr/en/). Then it's on to see CHANTAL THOMAS, author of best-selling novel, LES ADIEUX A LA REINE (later made into a film by BENOIT JACQUOT), and LA REINE SCELERATE, MARIE-ANTOINETTE DANS LES PAMPHLETS. MUSIC | Excerpts from ALCESTE by GLUCK, licensed courtesy of NAXOS MUSIC UK LTD. COVER IMAGE | Wikimedia Commons - Marie-Antoinette being taken to her execution by William Hamilton (1794).   PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for TORCH (torch.ox.ac.uk/) / Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/) | Producer - Catriona Oliphant.