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This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons ... Description=Portrait of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, 1775 |Source=Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin ...
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 was the wife of Louis XVI.
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Marie Antoinette and Her Children is an oil painting by the French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painted in 1787. It shows Marie Antoinette, the consort of King Louis XVI, wearing a red velvet gown with sable lining. Her younger son, the future Louis XVII, sits on her lap while her daughter, Marie-Thérèse, leans on her arm.
The portrait of Marie Antoinette entitled Marie Antoinette à la Rose features as the front cover of the US alternative rock group Hole's 2010 album Nobody's Daughter. The Charlie Sexton song "Impressed" references Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Madonna dressed as Marie Antoinette for her performance of "Vogue" at the 1990 MTV Music Video Awards.
A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace at the heart of a Marie Antoinette scandal, sold for over 4.2 million ...
A Marie-Antoinette-linked Necklace to Be Sold Cecil Beaton. As they say, a piece of jewelry has the power to tell many stories. This particular diamond necklace, which is being sold by Sotheby's ...
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