What happened to Marie Antoinette and her family when she was taken to the Bastille in 1792?

Answer 1

She crossed the border at the Rhine, between Kehl and Strasbourg where they actually put up a small building where the passing-ceremonie of leaving everything Austrian behind and adapting everything that was French. She was to enter the building on one side dressed in her Austrian gown, en leave the building on the other side completely dressed as a French dauphine. She had to leave everything Austrian behind, even her puppie "Mops".

Answer 2

She arrived at Versailles on May 16th 1770 (her wedding day) and was first brought to Maria Leszczyńska's former rooms (this was the former queen who had died 2 years prior to Marie Antoinette's arrival), because her own rooms were not ready yet. After her changing into her weddinggown, she was led to her future husband and they walked to the Cathedral in the palace of Versailles, followed by the entire Royal family and aristocrats.

Answer 3

The Temple was a medieval fortress in Paris, located in what is now the IIIe arrondissement. It was built by the Knights Templar from the 12th century, as their European headquarters and gained its name from that. In the 13th century it replaced earlier works of the Vieille Temple (Old Temple) in Le Marais. Parts of the fortress were later used as a prison. The fortress was destroyed in 1808 to avoid the pilgrimage of royalists (since this was the prison of Louis XVI for some time); today the Temple Paris metro stop stands on the old location. The heavy doors of the Grosse Tour still exist and are kept at Château de Vincennes whose great keep (attributed to Raymond du Temple) is speculated to have been inspired by the nearby Templar fortress.

Answer 4

They were never in the Bastille, they were held prisoners first in the Tuillerie palace in Paris and after that in the Temple. In 1792 they were prisoners in the Temple.