Why Is Marie Antoinette's Assassination Justified

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I believe that the execution and technically assassination of Marie Antoinette was unjustified. There are reasons and it will be presented today, because she didn’t commit theft, treason and she wasn’t properly tried. She may not have been the best queen at times but she still didn’t deserve to be executed by guillotine, because it wasn’t her fault she got made queen at such a young age. The first factoid that makes her execution unjust is that she was falsely accused of treason. This reason was also known as sexual abuse to her son Louis Charles. Now what many don’t know is that her son was actually forced to testify against her. A man that loved going to executions and testify against them so they would later get killed had gotten an …show more content…

On October 15th she was tried by a jury of all-males. Although this may have seemed fair back then, it isn't fair now because that jury was completely gender biased. They hardly took any time to conduct proper reasoning and almost immeadiately condemned her to death. It was astonishing how unanimously they chose on account that they must have all hated her for the previous innaccurate reasons given above. What they should have done when they tried her was get some different gender on the jury and the outcome may have been different than what they turned out. The counter claim won't afflict too much damage hopefully.Whenever Marie Antionette was queen of France she didn't pay much heed to the need of her subjects. It is said that whenever she was told that her French subjects did not have any bread to eat she simply said,"qu'ils mangent le gâteau," which later translated to let them eat cake. Many also hated for using tax dollars on clothing and rennovating her castle. Many hated the queen these reasons and is what perpetually lead to her death. So in conclusion you can see that in reality Queen Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France, was not guilty. Although she was falsely accused on many accounts, she should've paid more attention to her French subjects. This was why she apperantly the last queen of

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