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When talking about-; [+#Lou!*+is XVI and his wif`]e .+M)]arie Antoine@t _te, what immediately comes t/ o @mind are lace,+`: tal/l w_igs(+)!, fla, +mbo=%yant c:lot. hes
(-and colours , Versailles, or… the gu+??illotine. :/%Here,+ ]\ bet$ween these two extr\\emes, ex]`!ists a middle grou/nd, a p#\/:eriod of time*, seldom e^xpl$ ored: ^the fe
-w months when the last king and queen ;of Fr!.anc#,];=e were i/,mpris
:)one
;+d: \=+, wit[ h their tw\\o yo;)ung child^
]r=)
en, in a b^l\ack castle on the o:%utskirts o+ ;f Pa#ris, awaiting their e xecutions. A %%bri]`e ?(f and*= conde@ns `=,=ed period where!,, amids^t violence and h-;-arassmen#)t, all ma.+sks@ f+ell-, o:.ff: thos[% e o)f -\tw];o= royals#=, as public and   privat+;`?(e[= fi `gures th[*at of the old r``.egime that of a His tory that final^=ly )
tu[_rned t ?he page and that :.of @@G
od who, from the\n on,(%^ wa s  eclips^=ed by the s^hadows, leaving:^ man\ entirel;[=)y alon]-e.