Une aventure secrète de Marie-Antoinette
1910 · 16m
History
Directed by
Camille de Morlhon
Overview
During a Carnival ball, masked Marie Antoinette slaps an aggressive suitor, leading to her arrest. Upon leraning her identity, the young officer in command frees her and gives her a letter in which he declares his love, which she destroys. Years later in 1793, while imprisoned and awaiting execution, she receives a rescue note. Marie Antoinette recognizes the same officer in her saviour after he fails to rescue her and is strangled before her eyes. She is then led to the scaffold.
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