France's Louis XVI's queen was guillotined, so why did she apologize to her executioner when she was executed?
On October 16, 1793, at around 11:00 a.m., Marie Antoinette, the wife of France's Bourbon King Louis XVI, was guillotined. When Marie arrived at the Place de la Concorde where she was to be executed, the desperate Marie, knowing that her death was inevitable, was pale with fear and in a great trance.
At around 12 noon, Marie was brought to the front of the guillotine by an executioner. As the executioner was escorting Marie towards the guillotine, she was distracted by nervousness or fear and accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot. In an amazing scene, Mary immediately turned to the executioner and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that".
Because of this incident above, the French Queen was sympathized and respected by the French people in the following generations.
Mary, being a queen, apologized to her executioner before she was dragged to the execution ground to be executed. Why did she apologize? Why apologize to the executioner again?
It can only be said that the king and his wife preserved their dignity as traditional European aristocrats before they died.
Mary was of noble birth, her father was Franz I, Emperor of the Roman Empire, and her mother Maria Theresa was not only Queen of the Roman Empire, but also Archduke of Austria and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary. Mary grew up in an excellent environment to receive aristocratic education, coupled with her and born petite and lovely, everyone who saw her, truly believe that she is an angelic existence. As a princess, marriages are naturally all heavily politicized, and Mary's was no exception.
Because of the political union, when she was 14 years old, she married King Louis XVI of France. This Queen Mary she was not keen on politics, she was keen on balls, fashion, fun and celebration, decorating the garden, extravagance, there is a "deficit lady". In a word, it is fun, and there is nothing wrong with it, European aristocrats are not all like this, there is no excuse.
But the good times don't last long, the French Revolution broke out, refused to give up the power of the French royal family and the revolutionaries carried out a fight to the death, and in this fight, once fun-loving Queen Mary, a change in the norm, not only resolutely support her husband to fight with the revolutionaries, but also contacted their own family Austria to help themselves. But the end result is that things are exposed, Louis XVI was "treason", sent to the guillotine.
Queen Marie was not guilty of treason, the French revolution and he theoretically has nothing to do with it, just that he indulged in his own world, did not respond well to the changes in the real world, as long as the king and wife in the face of the revolutionary wave a little flexibility, taking into account the traditional royal support of the power of the French royal family, Louis XVI and Queen Marie mixed with a constitutional monarchy monarch is not a problem.
Queen Marie had been living the extravagant life she was accustomed to, and under the drastic social changes, she was scolded by all the people in France, no matter whether she was a slut or a luxury, she suffered countless damages to her reputation, and in the face of the change of the times, she couldn't possibly have a rational response and adapt, and eventually turned herself into a "traitor", and lost her last chance to become a monarch. Lost the last little chance, when the French need to find some villains for the revolution to bleed for the revolution, Queen Mary became the necessary scapegoat, became the window for the people to vent their emotions.