When talking about Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette , what immediately comes to mind are lace, tall wigs , flamboyant clothes and colours, Versailles, or… the guillotine. Here , between these two extremes, exists a middle ground, a period of time seldom explored: the few months when the last king and queen of France were imprisoned , with their two young children, in a black castle on the outskirts of Paris, awaiting their executions. A brief and condensed period where , amidst violence and harassment, all masks fell off: those of two royals, as public and private figures; that of the old regime; that of a History that finally turned the page; and that of God who, from then on, was eclipsed by the shadows , leaving man entirely alone.