# Marie-Antoinette becomes widow of Louis XVI on 21 January 1793 after his public execution

Date: 1793

## The fact

Britannica dates Louis XVI’s execution to 21 January 1793; she remained imprisoned as widow. Revolutionary clerks share the detention file. Her own October execution is a later row.

It is one event.

## Context

Temple detention and Conciergerie transfer are neighbouring custody rows.

[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.

Convention politics after the king’s trial; the queen’s separate trial followed months later.

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 date the king’s 21 January 1793 death and her continued imprisonment.

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

## Significance

Widowhood by public execution inside a detention system is a [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 21 January 1793 as the king’s death date creating her widowhood. Not established: private last words invented beyond the sources.

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 merge with her 16 October 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

- 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-widow-1793