The verdict was never in doubt, nor was her sentence. Marie Antoinette would be executed, by guillotine, on the 16th of October.

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At about 4:30 in the morning, on the day of her death, she wrote a final letter to her sister-in-law Elizabeth (who would soon be executed, too.) She was not allowed to see her two surviving children.

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Source: http://www.awesomestories.com/flicks/marie-antoinette/trial-of-marie-antoinette

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