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Marie Antoinette (/ ˌ æ n t w ə ˈ n ɛ t, ˌ ɒ̃ t-/; [1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic.
Marie Antoinette and Her Children, also known as Marie Antoinette of Lorraine-Habsburg, Queen of France, and Her Children [a] is an oil painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted in 1787, and currently displayed at the Palace of Versailles. [1] Its dimensions are 275 by 216.5 cm (108.3 by 85.2 in). [2]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:59, 13 April 2008: 1,498 × 1,961 (2.11 MB): Cybershot800i == Beschreibung == {{Information |Description=Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 1775 |Source=Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin, France |Date=1775 |Author=Unknown painter probably made by Gautier Dagoty (1740-1786) |Permission=This image
The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France. It served as a private meeting place for the queen and her closest friends and as a place of leisure.
Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI, was beheaded during the French Revolution.. This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the French Third Republic was declared.
If you are a fan of the tragic queen Marie Antoinette you’ve probably heard of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, an 18th-century catfishing mishap that’s probably the most memorable fiction ...
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A 2000 book in the young adult the Royal Diaries series is about Marie Antoinette's journey to France as a teenager, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France, 1769-1771). The two best-known movie portrayals of Marie Antoinette have been in the 1938 film Marie Antoinette , directed by W. S. Van Dyke , in which Norma Shearer ...