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Marie-Antoinette is executed on 16 October 1793 as a completed Revolutionary killing

Lived 1755–1793; queen consort from 1774. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Gallica carries later prints as evidence, not as a second act. Officers of the Terror share the execution machine.

Context

Louis XVI’s 21 January death is not this day. Cake slogans are later cultural reception, not a last-words file stored here.

Marie-Antoinette’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Lived 1755–1793; queen consort from 1774. Cake is a later slogan, not a sourced utterance. The Diamond Necklace is allegation and image. Fiscal crisis is not stored as her unique coefficient. Complex contribution is required.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Marie-AntoinetteEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Château de Versailles — Marie-AntoinetteÉtablissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica, Versailles, and later civic pages print 16 October 1793 as the guillotine death after the tribunal’s sentence.

Britannica and Versailles independently describe the 16 October 1793 execution.

Established: 16 October 1793 execution as calendared. Not established: later novels as stenographs.

Marie-Antoinette did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMarie-Antoinette
  2. contributed toFactMarie-Antoinette is executed on 16 October 1793 as a completed Revolutionary killing
  3. weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Marie-Antoinette is executed on 16 October 1793 as a completed Revolutionary killing. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-execution-1793

https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-execution-1793

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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