# The Revolutionary Tribunal tries her on 14–16 October 1793 as a completed political capital process

Date: 1793

## The fact

Britannica and Archives nationales neighbourhood catalogues print 14–16 October 1793 as the trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal, with charges including correspondence with the enemy and a notorious allegation involving the dauphin that even some Jacobins treated as grotesque. Allegation stays allegation where it is sexual-political invention. She is the defendant; Fouquier-Tinville and the jurors share the machine.

It is one event.

## Context

It is not a finding that every charge was true. Cake is not on the indictment as a sourced utterance.

[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 Archives nationales independently describe the October 1793 trial.

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

## Significance

A completed two-day capital trial of a deposed queen is a justice path. It is not a modern independent court.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 14–16 October 1793 trial as calendared. Not established: the sexualised dauphin allegation as fact.

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.

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. Keep trial distinct from the same week’s execution. 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

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Antoinette-queen-of-France
- https://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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