The King would be murdered after a show trial. After the murder of his father, the young prince Louis-Charles (Properly, the uncrowned King, as he had inherited the title from his father) was taken from his mother and given to an alcoholic innkeeper. The innkeeper was tasked with “Repbulicanizing” the Prince, which included eroding all his genteel habits and forcing him to drink, fight, and curse. He was physically abused, left in filthy conditions, given neither food nor water, and at times was left in complete solitude. During this torturous confinement, the Jacobins coerced false testimony from him against his mother. He was forced into signing a false affidavit alleging that the Queen had sexually abused him. Reports indicate that from the moment he signed the affidavit, until his death of tuberculosis at the age of 10, he did not speak another word.

Queen Marie Antoinette would meet a fate similar to her beloved husband and son, convicted in a show trial on charges of theft from the royal treasury and child abuse (all of which were demonstrably false but supported by the coerced accusation of the young Dauphin, uncrowned King). By all serious historical accounts, and contrary to popular perception, she was a good woman. Kind and charitable, charming, and often ill treated by members of the French court, ironically for the austerity she is now lambasted for lacking. She did not say “Let them eat cake.” In fact, she personally funded multiple charities that brought food to the hungry. In her characteristic grace, her last words were an apology for treading on the foot of her executioner.

In her final letter, she writes of her total forgiveness of her son for his accusation, and implores in her sister the same. She asks her sister to care for him, teach him the Catholic religion, and keep him safe. To remind him of the last words of his father which instructed him never to avenge the dead King:

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths. I have to speak to you of one thing which is very painful to my heart, I know how much pain the child must have caused you. Forgive him, my dear sister; think of his age, and how easy it is to make a child say whatever one wishes, especially when he does not understand it. — Queen Marie of the French

She speaks also of her faith, and implores both God and those she knew in life for forgiveness:

I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion* (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy. I beg pardon of all whom I know, and especially of you, my sister, for all the vexations which, without intending it, I may have caused you. I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them. — Queen Marie of the French

Many more would be murdered. In the Vendee region,those in the Royal and Catholic Army heroically resisted the Republic, and explicit orders were given by the Directory to “Leave nothing alive but the Wolves.” And so they did. The “Infernal Columns,” Republican death squads, murdered 300,000 people in the region, sparing nobody and making no distinction between insurgent and civilian. Despite this, more and more loyalists fought against the Republicans, and more and more were executed in what is considered by some to be the first modern genocide.