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14 Facts You Didn't Know About Marie Antoinette What do you know about Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France (1755-1793) and Versailles? Here's 14 facts you may not know about this iconic French Queen who started a new life in France with youth and enthusiasm and ended up living in one of the most tumultuous

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Enjoy these vintage photos of 19th-century French royalty, including Napoleon's widow, Charles X's grandchildren, King Louis Philippe, Napoleon III, & more.

Portrait of Louis XVI of France with bust of Marie Antoinette by Alexandre Roslin, 1782-1783 (PD-art/old), Zamek Królewski w Warszawie (ZKW), one of the portraits assembled by Stanislaus Augustus for his Conference Room at the Royal Castle in Warsaw

It's not fair that the English get to have all the fun with their monarchy. France has better palaces and all these monuments and frankly, we need more parades in Paris. Enter Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, the rightful pretender to the French throne. In other words, if the French throne were restor

After the French Revolution, eight‑year‑old Louis XVII was taken to prison and never seen in public again.

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband Louis XVI were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has been vilified as a woman who was out of touch with the common folk and was famously reported to have said that if the French people couldn’t eat bread, then “let them eat cake.” But was she really that bad, and did she really tell her subjects to eat cake?

Marie-Jeanne Rose Bertin was the first most famous French fashion designer best-known as the dressmaker and milliner to Queen Marie Antoinette. Born on

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