Photos of Antoinette, Marie

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Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution. Resented by the French citizenry for her foreign birth and extravagant lifestyle, Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as the arrogant and apathetic monarch who said "let them eat cake" when told the peasants were starving because they had no bread. These days most scholars dismiss the quote as being revolutionary propaganda, but Marie was well-known to have spent wildly as a young queen before tempering things a bit as she matured. The daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Marie left Austria for France in 1770 to marry the prince of France. In 1774 the prince became King Louis XVI and Marie became queen. As revolution swept Paris in 1789, the king and queen tried to flee but failed. While the revolutionaries were trying to hash out a new system of government, Marie and Louis XVI were stuck as prisoners at the palace at Tuileries. They tried to get help from royal supporters in England, Prussia and Austria, but in 1792 they were arrested and charged with treason. Louis was beheaded 21 January 1793 and Marie was beheaded 16 October 1793.

Gallerie des Modes

Marie Antoinette and the Rose, painted by Elisabeth Vig?©e-Lebrun

painted by Elisabeth Vig?©e-Lebrun

painted by Martin van Meytens

painted by Jean-?âtienne Liotard

painted by Martin van Meytens

painted by Joseph Ducreux

painted by Joseph Kranzinger

painted by Joseph Kranzinger

painted by Elisabeth Vig?©e-Lebrun

painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertm?ºller

(2)

Varennes; end of the journey...

Painted in 1793

The Last drawing of the Queen

19th Centurie

19th Centurie

19th Centurie

Luis XVI and Marie Antoinette tomb in Saint Denis Basilica, Paris

(2)

Version A

Version B; located in Sch?¥nbrunn

painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertm?ºller

Marie Antoinette se promenant dans un jardin

Madame Royale, Princess Marie Th?©r?®se Charlotte of France, Version A, painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertm?ºller

Madame Royale, Princess Marie Th?©r?®se Charlotte of France, Version B

Madame Royale and her younger brother Louis Joseph Xavier of France, Dauphin of France, Version A,

Madame Royale and her younger brother Louis Joseph Xavier of France, Dauphin of France, Version B

Madame Royale, Princess Marie Th?©r?®se Charlotte of France

Princess Marie Sophie Beatrice of France

Louis Charles of France, Duke of Normandie

Princess Marie Sophie Beatrice of France

Dauphin Louis Charles of France playing with a yo-yo [emigrette], Version A, painted by Elisabeth Vig?©e-Lebrun

Dauphin Louis Charles of France playing with a yo-yo [emigrette], Version B, painted by Elisabeth Vig?©e-Lebrun

Dauphin Louis Charles of France

Dauphin Louis Joseph Xavier of France

Dauphin Louis Charles of France, Version A

Dauphin Louis Charles of France, Version B

Dauphin Louis Charles of France, Version C

Dauphin Louis Joseph Xavier of France

Marie Th?©r?®se Charlotte of France, the young Duchess of Angoul?™me, painted by Heinrich Friedrich F?ºger

Dauphin Louis Charles of France

Gallerie des Modes

Marie Antoinette and the Rose, painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

painted by Martin van Meytens

painted by Jean-Étienne Liotard

painted by Martin van Meytens

painted by Joseph Ducreux

painted by Joseph Kranzinger

painted by Joseph Kranzinger

painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

(2)

Varennes; end of the journey...

Painted in 1793

The Last drawing of the Queen

19th Centurie

19th Centurie

19th Centurie

Luis XVI and Marie Antoinette tomb in Saint Denis Basilica, Paris

(2)

Version A

Version B; located in Schônbrunn

painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

Marie Antoinette se promenant dans un jardin

Madame Royale, Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, Version A, painted by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

Madame Royale, Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, Version B

Madame Royale and her younger brother Louis Joseph Xavier of France, Dauphin of France, Version A,

Madame Royale and her younger brother Louis Joseph Xavier of France, Dauphin of France, Version B

Madame Royale, Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France

Princess Marie Sophie Beatrice of France

Louis Charles of France, Duke of Normandie

Princess Marie Sophie Beatrice of France

Dauphin Louis Charles of France playing with a yo-yo [emigrette], Version A, painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Dauphin Louis Charles of France playing with a yo-yo [emigrette], Version B, painted by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Dauphin Louis Charles of France

Dauphin Louis Joseph Xavier of France

Dauphin Louis Charles of France, Version A

Dauphin Louis Charles of France, Version B

Dauphin Louis Charles of France, Version C

Dauphin Louis Joseph Xavier of France

Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, the young Duchess of Angoulême, painted by Heinrich Friedrich Füger

Dauphin Louis Charles of France