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The trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette is one of the darkest mysteries in the history of the French Revolution. Has she ever participated in political decisions that harmed the interests of the French people? When the Republic was founded (September 21, 1792) and King Louis XVI was executed (January 21, 1793), did she pose any threat to the new regime in prison? Did her trial really come from public opinion? Did anyone ever try to help her escape? By carefully examining every minute and second of the trial on October 14, 15, and 16, 1793, checking the personal biographies of the jury members for the first time, and reconstructing the political environment of the "Reign of Terror" at that time, the famous historian Emmanuel de Valéquière retells the tragic and heavy three days in this book in an emotional yet objective and neutral tone. "The Trial of the Queen: October 14-16, 1793" discloses the insulting questions in the court and the decent answers in the face of malicious slander, which further proves that Marie-Antoinette's fate was already determined before the trial. She did not enjoy the real right to defense and was just a political victim of the wrestling between the National Convention, the Paris Commune and the Jacobins.