Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette follows him to the ...
Items relating to the death of Marie Antoinette go on display in London, including the guillotine possibly used to execute ...
“Let them eat cake,” said the hard-hearted Marie Antoinette when told that her subjects had no bread. Except she almost certainly did not. The much-despised queen, widely disliked in her own time, was ...
Above: Marie Antoinette scandalously abandoned traditional regalia for newfangled “fashion”—as seen in this fateful 1783 portrait by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of her style influencers. Between the ...
The portrait shows a determined child with a steely gaze, holding a weaving shuttle in one hand and red thread in the other. This stern expression has long been interpreted as evidence of Marie ...
The most famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, according to new research. Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow of All Souls College ...
Contemporary cinema’s greatest practitioner of the gilded cage never wrought one with such ornate bars as Marie Antoinette. Sofia Coppola’s take on the short, extravagant life of the ill-fated French ...
Marie Antoinette died over 230 years ago. But in the modern day, the teen queen’s presence remains widely felt.
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