Heute vor 225 Jahren

... wurde König Ludwig XVI von Frankreich enthauptet. Einen, wie stets auf ihrem Blog, stimmigen Artikel von Elena Maria Vidal dazu kann man hier lesen:

January 21, Saint Agnes day, is the dies natalis of the Roi-Martyr, when two hundred and twenty-five years ago, Louis XVI was taken from the Temple prison to be guillotined. The previous night he had said farewell to his family, and their reaction was so hysterical that he decided not to see them again in the morning, for fear of faltering in his own courage. His fifteen year old daughter fainted. He rode to his death in a coach accompanied by the Irish priest, Abbé Edgeworth de Firmont, who had been Madame Elisabeth's confessor and who had refused the oath to the government. Together they recited the seven penitential psalms, as described in the novel Trianon.

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Man braucht fürwahr keineswegs ein in der Wolle gefärbter royalistischer Legitimist zu sein, um die Enthauptung des Königs als einen der empörendsten Justizmorde aller Zeiten anzusehen.