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(Led like a tethered animal by a cord tied to her hands, the prisoner queen is brought by the soldiers to a shabby cart drawn by two dray horses. To further humiliate her, they place her in it so that she is sitting backward. She is wearing a simple white gown and bonnet and is accompanied by the executioner and a revolutionary priest. As the cart slowly
(Immediately the walls of the prison rise, revealing the enourmous Place de la RĂŠvolution. Toward the back of it looms a towering guillotine. On the opposite side of the stage is a gaily painted Montgolfier balloon. Large crowds of Parisians in their Sunday best have come to view the execution of their monarch and the balloon ascent. The gardens of Aguas Frescas appear high up, hazily lit, as if in a vision. Beaumarchais and the ghost Marie Antoinette slowly ascend toward it arm in arm.)
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