MARIE ANTOINETTE'S DARKEST DAYS

Traces the final days of the prisoner, the ex-queen Marie Antoinette, registered only as Widow Capet, No. 280, a time that was a cruel mixture of grandeur, humiliation, and terror. Marie's reign amidst the splendors of the court of Versailles is a familiar story, but her final imprisonment in a fetid, dank dungeon is a little-known coda to a once-charmed life. Illus.