- It is 1780, and Marie Antoinette in her rooms at the palace of Versailles declares her intention of going to the masked ball at the opera that night incognito. Accompanied by her maid, she attends, and, not being recognized in her mask, is approached by the chief of the police, who attempts to kiss her. Without thinking of the consequences, she raises her hand and strikes him. He orders their arrest and they are conveyed to headquarters, where they are received by a young officer, who insists that they unmask. He recognizes the Queen and at once allows her to leave, but before she does so he gives her a note in which he confesses to a love for her, which he has nurtured in secret. Safe once more in the palace, the Queen opens this note, and after smiling rather sadly at its contents, tears it up. The next scene shows the Queen in 1793 in her prison. The Revolution has swept through France, and her execution has been decreed. In her bread she finds a note that on the morrow on the way to the scaffold an attempt will be made to rescue her. The next morning, as she is about to ascend the cart that takes the convicted to the place of execution, a disturbance suddenly occurs, and the Queen recognizes the leader as the young officer who had freed her years ago. He is, however, quickly disarmed and strangled at her feet by the National Guard. For a second Marie Antoinette stoops over the inanimate form, and the next instant she is roughly pushed up the steps of the wagon and led off to her doom.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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