Marie Antoinette undermining the First French Republic, Louis XVI was separated from his family and tried in December. He was found guilty by the Convention, led by the Jacobins who rejected the idea of keeping him as a hostage. On 15 January 1793, by a majority of one vote, that of Philippe Égalité, he was condemned to death by guillotine and executed on 21 January 1793. The queen, now called "Widow Capet", plunged into deep mourning. She still hoped her son Louis-Charles, whom the exiled "Comte de Provence", Louis XVI's brother, had recognised as Louis XVI's successor, would one day rule France.
Capet Quartet at the Casadesus household. In 1903, it had become: 1st violin: Lucien Capet 2nd violin: André Touret viola: Louis Bailly violoncello: Louis Hasselmans By 1910 the team was established which survived into the 1920s to make the well-known recordings: 1st violin: Lucien Capet 2nd violin: Maurice Hewitt viola: Henri Benoît cello: Camille Delobelle Lucien Capet (b. Paris, 1873) had been a pupil of Morin at the Paris Conservatoire, and appeared as a soloist very widely, especially with the Concerts Lamoureux. He taught at the Bordeaux Conservatoire from 1899 to 1903 and from 1907 in Paris, wrote three string quartets, and