Marie Antoinette's first child was born at Versailles 19th December 1778. She was forced to endure the humiliation of a public birth in her bedchamber, in front of hundreds of courtiers. The queen actually passed out through a combination of embarrassment and pain. It was the last time such a ritual was permitted as Marie-Antoinette refused to give birth in public ever again. The baby was a girl and she was christened Marie Thérèse Charlotte. She was created "Princess Royal" or Madame Royale, since she was the oldest daughter ...

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Marie Antoinette did not ever truly recover from her husband's death. According to her daughter, "She no longer had any hope left in her heart or distinguished between life and death." She began to suffer from convulsions and fainting fits. She also lost her appetite and lost an enormous amount of weight. On the night of July 3, 1793, commissioners arrived in the royal family's cell with instructions to separate Marie Antoinette's son from the rest of his family. He had been proclaimed Louis XVII by exiled royalists after his father's ...

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From the beginning of the Revolution, Marie Antoinette remained skeptical about the chances of a compromise. However, she was not yet prepared to give up all hope of a peaceful resolution to the crisis. Certain republicans, like Antoine Barnave, were moved by her plight and many more were thoroughly impressed by her dignity. The Comte de Mirabeau, whom she despised, told many people how impressed he was ...

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The affair of the diamond necklace was a mysterious incident in the 1780s at the court of Louis XVI of France involving the queen Marie Antoinette. It concerned an unsavoury episode in which the wife of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, whose reputation was already tarnished by gossip and scandal, was implicated in a crime by contemporary public opinion. The Affair was historically significant as one of the events that led to the French populace's disillusionment with the monarchy, which eventually culminated in the French Revolution. ...

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The young nobleman was, from the first, a prime favourite at the French court, owing partly to the recollection of his father's devotion to France, but principally because of his own amiable and brilliant qualities. Queen Marie Antoinette, who had first met Fersen when they both were age 16, was especially attracted by the grace and wit of "le beau" Fersen, who had inherited his full share of the striking handsomeness which was hereditary in the family. It is possible that Fersen would have spent most of his life at Versailles, but for a hin ...

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In August 1791, Fersen was sent to Vienna to induce the emperor Leopold to accede to a new coalition against revolutionary France, but he soon came to the conclusion that the Austrian court meant to do nothing at all. At his own request, therefore, he was transferred to Brussels, where he could be of more service to the queen of France. In February 1792, at his own mortal peril, he once more succeeded in reaching Paris with counterfeit credentials as minister plenipotentiary to Portugal. On the 13th he arrived, and the same evening contrived ...

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Fersen stood quite aloof from the revolution of 1809. His sympathies were entirely with Prince Gustavus, son of the unfortunate Gustav IV, and he was generally credited with the desire to see him king. When the newly elected successor to the throne, the highly popular prince Carl August of Augustenburg, died suddenly in Scania in May 1810, the report spread that he had been poisoned, and that Fersen and his sister, the countess Piper, were accessories. The source of this equally absurd and infamous libel has never been discovered. But it was ...

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As a young prince he was a noted womanizer, popular, well-mannered and entertaining. He struck up a firm friendship with his sister-in-law, Marie Antoinette, and he was part of her social set. His affairs were numerous, and, according to the Comte d'Hezecques, few beauties were cruel to him. Later, he embarked upon a life-long love affair with the beautiful Madame de Polastron, sister of Marie-Antoinette's favourite lady-in-waiting, the Duchesse de Polignac. Madame de Palastron stayed with Charles for the rest of his life. Indiscretion aside, Charles was also extravagant and temperamental; but he was also a ...

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Marie-Thérèse was the first child born to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. Monarchists throughout France had prayed for the birth of a male to the royal couple, who had been married since 1770. However, the Queen greeted her daughter's birth with delight nonetheless. "Poor little thing," she said as they placed the baby in her arms, "you are not what they wanted, but we will love none the less. A son would have belonged to the State; you shall be mine, and have all my care; you shall share in my happiness and soften my sorrows." The baby princess was named after the quee ...

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Fanciful stories of how the pastry was created are modern culinary legends. These include tales that it was invented in Vienna in 1683 to celebrate the defeat of the Turkish siege of the city, as a reference to the crescents on the Turkish flags, when bakers staying up all night heard the tunneling operation and gave the alarm; tales linking croissants with the kifli and the siege of Bucharest in 1686; and those detailing Marie Antoinette's hankering after a Viennese specialty. Alan Davidson, editor of the Oxford Companion to Food sta ...

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The French Revolution of the 1790s had led to the destruction of most of the ancient French Crown Jewels along with the eventual abolition of the French monarchy and the execution of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. When Napoleon I declared himself French Emperor a decade later he decided to create new Imperial regalia, the centrepiece of which was his Charlemagne crown. ...

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She directed and wrote her first movie called Scarlet Diva (2000). Four years later she directed her second movie, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), this time in the United States. Her mother is the actress Daria Nicolodi. She is currently set to star as French royal mistress Madame du Barry in Sofia Coppola's biopic of Marie Antoinette. ...

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The year was 1788. A group of 48 men of the Ohio Company of Associates arrived at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers and established the first permanent settlement in the Northwest Territory. It was named Marietta in honor of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, who had aided the young country in its battle for independence from Great Britain. This odyssey had actually begun in 1770 when a young surveyor began exploring large tracts of land west of his native Virginia. During the Revolutionary War, this surveyor, George ...

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A con-woman called Jeanne de St Remy de Valois conceived of a plan to gain wealth and possibly power and royal patronage through the necklace. A descendant of a bastard of Henry II of France, Jeanne de Valois, after many adventures, had married a soi-disant comte de Lamotte, and lived on a small pension which the king granted her. In March 1784 she entered into relations with the Cardinal Louis de Rohan, formerly ambassador to Vienna. The Cardinal was regarded with displeasure by Marie Antoinette, having revealed some of her se ...

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Petit Trianon - The Château. The Château was built for Madame de Pompadour, the favourite of King Louis XV, but she died four years before it was ready for occupation. It was subsequently occupied by her successor, Madame du Barry. The design was by the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel but the building was not complete until near the end of the reign of Louis XVI. He offered the chateau to his Queen, Marie Antoinette. Petit Trianon - The French Pavilion. Petit Trianon - Fren ...

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The Crown Jewels were stolen in 1792 when the Garde Meuble (Royal Treasury) was stormed by rioters. Most though not all of the Crown Jewels were recovered eventually. Neither the Sancy Diamond nor the French Blue Diamond were found in the years after, however. The Royal French Blue was cut and what remained is now known as the Hope Diamond. The Hope is famously alleged to have been surrounded by bad luck. Marie Antoinette who wore it was beheaded. Later owners and their families experienced suicides, marriage break-ups, bankrup ...

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Born as Jacques d'Adelsward, he is related on his paternal side to Axel von Fersen, a Swedish Count who had a relationship with Marie Antoinette. D'Adelsward took on the name Fersen later in his life out of admiration for the distant relative. Later in Capri he dropped the "d'Adelsward" from his name and called himself simply Count Fersen. D'Adelsward-Fersen's grandfather had founded the steel industry in Longwy-Briey, which was profitable enough that it made d'Adelsward-Fersen exceedingly wealthy when he inherited at age 22. Consequently, he was much sought-after in the higher circles, ...

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Marie-Thérèse has appeared in several motion picture adaptations, mainly to do with her mother's life. In 1938 she was played by Marilyn Knowlden in the lavish movie Marie-Antoinette, opposite Norma Shearer as the queen. In 1975, in the French television drama Marie-Antoinette, Marie-Thérèse was played by Anne-Laura Meury. In 1989 she was played by Katherine Flynn in The French Revolution. Katherine's on-screen mothe ...

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During the French Revolution, the queen actually sympathized with the French rebels until the French monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792. She further turned against the rebels with the execution of first her brother-in-law Louis XVI of France (21 January 1793) and then her own younger sister Marie Antoinette (16 October, 1793). The Queen and her husband were horrified, and Marie Caroline used her uxorious husband to bring the Neopolitan and Sicilian armies ...

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