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In June 1790, Mirabeau met the captive Queen Marie Antoinette in Saint Cloud, where she was less watched and confined than in Paris (where her jailers followed her every step, even in her bedroom). Mirabeau retained a close connection with the queen, and drew up many state papers for her.
A significant achievement of Marie Antoinette in that period was the establishment of an alliance with Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau, the most important lawmaker in the assembly. Like Lafayette, Mirabeau was a liberal aristocrat.
At her father's request, the name on her birth certificate was revised to read "Sibylle Aimée Marie Antoinette Gabrielle". Sibylle's mother, the comtesse de Mirabeau, née de Gonneville (1827–1903) was also a writer, who contributed to Le Figaro. In 1869, Sibylle married count Roger de Martel de Janville, by whom she had three children.
The route from Tuileries Palace to Varennes-en-Argonne (approximate distance 250 km). The royal Flight to Varennes (French: Fuite à Varennes) during the night of 20–21 June 1791 was a significant event in the French Revolution in which King Louis XVI of France, Queen Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family unsuccessfully attempted to escape from Paris to Montmédy, where the King ...
Marie Antoinette's most commonly reported last words were addressed to her executioner. [1]: ... — Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (2 April 1791)
It was the site of many notable public executions, including those of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Maximilien Robespierre in the course of the French Revolution, during which the square was temporarily renamed the Place de la Révolution ('Revolution Square').
Marie Antoinette was beheaded on October 16th in 1793. The former royal's trip to the guillotine was sparked by monarchy reform and French Revolution angst. Other events on October 16th in History ...
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749–1791), French writer, popular orator and statesman; Joseph Shalit Riqueti, Jewish-Italian scholar born at Safed, who directed a Talmudical school in Verona; Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette Riqueti de Mirabeau (1849–1932), French writer who wrote under the pseudonym GYP