The peasants are becoming violent and wreckless. They want a revolution to end the monarchy. King Louis tries to get the people on his side by saying he is on their side. He wears their symbols and colors which is comically ironic. But Marie Antoinette does not honor The National Assembly or the Parisians, so she does not flatter them. When addressing the people, the king tells her to wear her simplest clothes but she wears her most elegant, and wears a beautiful diamond. A fake diamond, because it was sold to pay the debt of France. So oddly enough she doesn't want the people to know she has sacrificed for them, yet she has. Her husband was so cowardly that she had to make all the decisions. And the people call her nasty things, making up rumors about sexual taboos that she hasn't done. But she doesn't want the people to know she is helping them, because then they would think she is on their side, and then they would think she didn't believe in the monarchy.
Advisors tell the king that he should move with his family to a safe place, but he wants to act bravely and say, 'my people need me', which is strange becasue he never wanted to be king in the first place. And he isn't a good one. Eventually the people take over the castle and many people are killed. Marie and her family are put in a sort of prison and then her husband is executed. She still has hope that she will get out because Axel will save her. Axel has been seeing her and intends to save her but the plan goes wrong. Marie is split up from her family and hears about the awful rape and torture of her best friend.
Marie Antoinette is executed.
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