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

Date: 1793

## The fact

Britannica, Versailles, and later civic pages print 16 October 1793 as the guillotine death after the tribunal’s sentence. Gallica carries later prints as evidence, not as a second act. Officers of the Terror share the execution machine.

It is one event.

## 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](/people/marie-antoinette)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Lived 1755–1793; queen consort from 1774. Household officers, Austrian diplomats, the king, and later Revolutionary clerks share the file. 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.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and Versailles independently describe the 16 October 1793 execution.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Marie-Antoinette (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Antoinette-queen-of-France; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A completed public beheading is a humanitarian-cost path.

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marie-Antoinette.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marie-Antoinette did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not rebate the killing with the 1783 portrait. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marie-Antoinette.

## People

- Marie-Antoinette: https://factrail.ai/people/marie-antoinette

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Antoinette-queen-of-France
- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/marie-antoinette

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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