The Trial of Marie Antoinette

In 1993, or according to the calendar of the infant French Republic, the 24th Bondamere of the Year 2, CBS has been reporting the trial of Marie Antoinette, who is charged with treason against the people of France.

It is 4 a.m. here in Paris, a grim cold morning, and we've just been informed that the jury, which will decide the fate of the Queen of the beheaded Louis the 16th, is ready to render its verdict.

The jury still hasn't entered this hall of audience, but is reported on its way. For 19 consecutive and grueling hours, Marie Antoinette has been upon the stand, facing a charge of treason. In a few moments...

On the over 16th and the jury... 1793... The verdict in the trial of Marie Antoinette. CBS takes you back 155 years. It is nine months since Louis the 16th went to the guillotine. people of France face a grim but inevitable decision. All things are as they were then, except for one thing. When CBS is there, you are there. You are there, produced and directed

by Robert Louis Cheyenne, is based on authentic historical fact and quotation. And now the great all of the patterning in their stands and our eyes are weary of peering into the darkness, to distinguish faces and figures great and small.

In this macabre light, the 300 men and women assembled here appear like long-shadowed ghosts. They are tired ghosts. Wearily awaiting the pronouncement of death or life for the widow-capade. The public prosecutor who has been conducting the case of the people versus Marie Antoinette has just come into the hall, he's walking in this direction.

Sir! Sir! Perhaps, well, Monsieur, P.K.R.T.V. of President Day-Lame. You have been in France long enough not to know that we no longer use the word M'Sir. M'Sir, Madam, is forms of address, belong to the Auncean regime.