Escape of Marie Antoinette

The fate of you were listening, of nation, of the world, as often hung upon accident, or upon decisions that made the other way would have substantially altered the course of human events. Suppose fate had decreed that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived out his fourth term.

Would there have been a war in Korea? What if by a stroke of fate the curies had never discovered radium? Yes, much depends upon a stroke of fate. And tonight we rewrite history as we present a dramatic conception of what might have happened if by a stroke of fate Queen Marie Antoinette of France had escaped death by the guillotine.

Our story tonight is historically true up to the stroke of fate that changes our story from historical fact to historical possibility. Now may I introduce our narrator for this evening, Mr. Wesley Atty will relate our story of Marie Antoinette.

January 21st, 1793, in the Place de la Concorde, the Paris of the French Revolution. And so died by the guillotine, Louis XVI, the King of France. His wife, Queen Marie Antoinette and his family, were held captive in a forbidding temple prism.

But there were many plots hatched by supporters of the royal family to help Marie Antoinette escape from prison and death. death. And one of them, engineered by a daredevil, the wealthy Baron de Bats, nearly succeeded.

Suppose it had. June 1793. We're in the office of Michonie, Inspector of the Prisons of Paris. Seated opposite Michonie and casually munching a chocolate is a man in his early thirties, soberly dress. On his hat the cocade of the Republic.

You say your name is Citizen Forge? That Major Cortier tell you about me, is that it's a missionary? Yes, he told me you had a very interesting idea to discuss with me your face. I've seen it someplace before.