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Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (28 August 1744 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution.
In 1772, Louis XV of France decided to make Madame du Barry, one of his mistresses, a special gift at the estimated cost of 2,000,000 livres (approximately US$17.5 million in 2024). He requested that Parisian jewelers Charles Auguste Boehmer and Paul Bassenge create a diamond necklace that would surpass all others in grandeur.
Madame du Barry, by François-Hubert Drouais (c. 1770) After the death of the Madame de Pompadour, several women in the court sought to replace her, including the Duchess of Gramont, the sister of the Duke of Choiseul, the King's chief minister. However, the King's favor turned to Jeanne Bécu, the comtesse du Barry. She was thirty-three years ...
Madame du Barry became a Maîtresse-en-titre despite her "low birth", which was considered scandalous. Agnès Sorel Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan Madame de Pompadour The maîtresse-en-titre ( French: [mɛtʁɛs ɑ̃ titʁ] ) was the official royal mistress of the King of France . [ 1 ]
King Louis XV had commissioned Parisian jewelers Boehmer & Bassenge to create an opulent 2,800-carat (560 g), 647-diamond necklace to present to his mistress Madame du Barry, but the king died before it was completed. Hoping to recover the high cost of the necklace, its creators try to persuade Queen Marie Antoinette to purchase it.
Scruggs was detained for alleged possession of a controlled substance, according to prison records. Scruggs died from a seizure secondary to left frontal lobectomy due to a traumatic brain injury (from a motor vehicle accident a decade prior), according to the medical examiner. Jail or Agency: St. Louis County - Dept. of Justice Services; State ...
Madame du Barry (1793) Micaela Bastidas (1781) Frei Caneca (1825) Ștefan Cantacuzino (1716) King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1649) Cuauhtémoc (1525) Daskalogiannis (1771) György Dózsa (1514) Jean-Michel Duroy (1795) Madame Elisabeth (1793) Matija Gubec (1573) Kryštof Harant (1621) Wijard Jelckama (1523) Matthew Keogh (1798 ...
Jean-Baptiste DuBarry, comte du Barry-Cérès, vidame de Châlons en Champagne (1723 - 17 January 1794) was a French nobleman. He is most notable as the lover and pimp of Jeanne Bécu (later better known as Madame du Barry, Louis XV's last official mistress), later becoming her brother-in-law by arranging a marriage-of-convenience between her and his younger brother Guillaume Dubarry at the ...