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3 days ago · Marie Antoinette was born November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria and was executed on October 16, 1793 at the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France. While the Chapelle Expiatoire in Paris is dedicated to her and to her husband, King Louis XVI, she is buried at the Basilica Cathedral of Saint Denis, France. In many ways Marie Antoinette was a victim ...
6 days ago · Searchable and browseable database offering extensive access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long eighteenth century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.
- Margaret Schaus
- 2019
4 days ago · Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (/ ˈ p ɒ m p ə d ʊər /, French: [pɔ̃paduʁ] ⓘ; 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764), commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court.
5 days ago · The residence of the last three French kings of the ancien regime, Versailles, was also the residence of their wives: Marie-Thérèse, who died there in 1683, Marie Leszcynska, who lived there from 1725 to 1768, and Marie Antoinette who was dauphin in 1770, then queen from 1774 to 1789.
- Margaret Schaus
- 2019
2 days ago · Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historical drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It is based on the life of Marie Antoinette, the queen consort of France, played by Kirsten Dunst, in the years leading to the French Revolution. It won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. It was released in the United States on October 20, 2006, by ...
2 days ago · Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] ( Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie ( / ˈkjʊəri / KURE-ee, [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi] ), was a Polish and naturalised -French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
3 days ago · Marie-Antoinette, vilified in left-wing histories which sought to lift the French Revolution's historical reputation from the gutter where it had lain ever since it ended in such bloody and ignominious failure in 1794, was placed in a sentimental spotlight by the right-wing and she soon took on a cultural reincarnation that saw magazine sketches of her stuck on the walls of little girls ...
