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Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun - Marie-Antoinette de Lorraine-Habsbourg, reine de France et ses enfants - Google Art Project.jpg 23,427 × 30,000; 241.67 MB Lucy Arbell as Queen Amahelli in Massenet's Bacchus, wide view.jpg 1,804 × 2,688; 2.34 MB
Blue-white-red, Marianne, Liberté-Égalité-Fraternité, the Republic: these national symbols represent France, as a state and its values. Since September 1999, they have been combined in a new "identifier" created by the Plural Left government of Lionel Jospin under the aegis of the French Government Information Service (SIG) and the public ...
Birth Marriage Became queen Coronation Ceased to be queen Death Spouse Arms Margaret of Anjou: René of Naples: 23 March 1430: 23 April 1445: not crowned as Queen of France: 19 October 1453 defeat of the English in the Hundred Years' War: 25 August 1482: Henry VI of England: Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became queen Coronation Ceased to ...
The National Order of the Legion of Honour and the National Order of Merit; The Phrygian cap; Joan of Arc; Fleur-de-lis; Bleuet de France, the symbol of memory for, and solidarity with, veterans, victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the Commonwealth remembrance poppy.
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]
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The arms of France Ancient: Azure semé-de-lis or. After the death of the last direct Capetian in 1328, the kingdom of France passed to the house of Valois through the Salic law, and Navarre passed to the house of Evreux through female line. 1376–1469 The arms of France Modern: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or, a simplified version of France Ancient
In the mid 20th century, during the Nazi Occupation of France (1940–1945), the 382-year-old painting was rolled up for storage, and continually transported to hiding places throughout the south of France, lest Veronese's painting about the Marriage at Cana become part of the Nazi plunder collected during the Second World War. [16]