Marie Antoinette's Darkest DaysThis compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her familys arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the waiting room for the guillotine because prisoners only spent a day or two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half