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[โ€“] Euergetes@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Antoinette could've abdicated and joined a convent as a nun

actually they were abolished by the revolution, so she couldn't lol. her path to not losing her head was more "not commit an enormous heap of treason"

[โ€“] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, and you can't say the revolutionaries didn't give her like a dozen separate chances to stop with the treason.