ruthlessly destroyed the order.

The central tower, one hundred and fifty feet high, had four stories.

The king and the dauphin were imprisoned in the second story, and the queen, her young daughter, and the Princess Elizabeth in the story above.
The power swiftly passed from Girondists to Jacobins, and a Revolutionary Tribunal was created in charge of the terrible triumvirate--Robespierre, Marat, and Danton.
An awful travesty upon a court of justice was established in that historic hall in the Palais de Justice.

Its walls, which had looked down upon generations of Merovingian, Carlovingian, and Capetian kings, now beheld the condemnation of the most innocent and well-intentioned of all the kings of France.
The king was arraigned at this court upon the charge of treason, convicted, and condemned to die on the 21st of January, 1793.

He was allowed to embrace for the last time his adored wife and children.