October 16, 1793 –
Deposed French queen Joséphe Jeanne Marie Antoinette sat in an open cart, enduring hours of public ridicule as she is slowly driven around the streets of Paris, on this day.
Finally, she was taken to the guillotine. On the scaffold she accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot, and her last words were, “Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose.”
She wasn’t having a good day.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 