“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: Take it, but do not make me suffer long.” . These words are reported to have been said by Marie Antoinette, after the prosecutor read his indictment. But little did the fallen queen know then, that she would spend two-and-a-half months before her trial and execution, in a noisy, mouldy dungeon, that reeked of pipe smoke, rat urine, and poor sanitation. On the 2nd August 1793, Marie Antoinette arrived at the Conciergerie in the Temple Prison, Paris, at 03.00am. She was torn from the arms of her daughter, Marie-ThĆ©rĆØse, and her sister-in-law, Madame Ćlisabeth. Her husband King Louis XVI, had been executed earlier in the year. Her youngest son Louis Charles, had been taken from her a month earlier. Marie Antoinette was quickly escorted to a cell below the level of the prison courtyard. The brick-tiled floor was covered with muddy slime, a...