Almost 20 years after the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI are still awaiting execution. The house arrest in the side wing of the Palace of Versailles offers little variety. All that remains of the staff is an old valet, a naïve chambermaid and a taciturn musician, and the food supplies are running low - so even the occasional "people" who ask for cake have to leave empty-handed. The royals are so fed up with the standstill in power that Ludwig takes matters into his own hands and presents his wife with a specially created guillotine. But it's not the nobles' heads that are now rolling, and soon it's not just the infamous necklace affair that no one can see through ...
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