Then, in January 1895, French warships landed on the coast of Madagascar. The French's massacre ended at the capital, Antananrivo, seeing thousands of Malagasy dead. Prime minister Zotsara Rainilaiarivony, His current wife Ranavalona III, and all other captured Malagasy dignitaries were exiled. They were sent to the island of Reunion, and then to the desert colony of Algiers, after Rainilaiarivony died in 1897.  Queen Ranavalona III would not return to her home country again in her life. She died of an embolism in Algiers in 1917. She was 55 years old.