One of the executioners seized the severed head of the monarch by the hair, and, raising the bloody trophy of their triumph, showed it to the shuddering throng, while the blood dripped from it on the scaffold. A few desperadoes dipped their sabers and the points of their pikes in the blood, and, waving them in the air, shouted "Vive la Republique!" The multitude, however, responded not to the cry. Explosions of artillery announced to the distant parts of the city that the sacrifice was consummated. The remains of the monarch were conveyed on a covered cart to the cemetery of the Madeleine, and lime was thrown into the grave that the body might be speedily and entirely consumed. Over the grave where he was buried Napoleon subsequently began the splendid Temple of Glory, in commemoration of the monarch and other victims who fell in the Revolution. The completion of the edifice was frustrated by the fall of Napoleon. The Bourbons, however, on their restoration to the throne, finished the building, and it is now called the Church of the Madeleine, and it constitutes one of the most beautiful structures of Paris. The spot on which the monarch fell is now marked by a colossal obelisk of blood-red granite, which the French government, in 1833, transported from Thebes, in Upper Egypt. Louis was unquestionably one of the most conscientious and upright sovereigns who ever sat upon a throne. He loved his people, and earnestly desired to do every thing in his power to promote their welfare. And it can hardly be doubted that he was guided through life, and sustained through the awful trial of his death, by the principle of sincere piety. The tidings of his execution sent a thrill of horror through Europe, and fastened such a stigma upon Republicanism as to pave the way for the re-erection of the throne. CHAPTER XI. TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF MARIA ANTOINETTE. 1793 Sufferings of the queen.--Announcement of her husband's death.--Cruel decree.--Maria's defense of her boy.--The dauphin's cell.--The queen summoned to the Conciergerie.--Painful partings.--The Conciergerie.--Loathsome apartments of the queen.--The jailer's wife.--The jailer's daughter.--The garter.--Dignity of the queen during her trial.--She is condemned to death.--The queen dressed for the guillotine.--Her hands bound.--Car of the condemned.--Indignities heaped upon the queen.--Arrival at the guillotine.--The queen's composure.--The queen's prayer.--Maternal love.--The last adieu.--End of the tragedy.