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The real Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette
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The Journey. By Antonia Fraser. Doubleday. $35.
'Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I
have sent them an angel." These were the parting words of the
formidable Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, as she sent her 14-
year old daughter off to France to wed the dauphin--the heir to the
French throne.
Thus began Marie Antoinette's journey in 1770. This innocent
adolescent--the 15th of Maria Theresa's 16 children and ill-prepared
to become a queen--was but a paw...
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; ... performance in the 1938 MGM production of Marie Antoinette inspired Eva Peron to dye her own hair ... long been broken down when it comes to Marie Antoinette. She was the most hated woman in France ... her beliefs. Saint or sinner: will the real Marie Antoinette please stand up? ...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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Can I get a slice of the real Marie Antoinette? BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Kirsten Dunst playing Marie Antoinette in 2006 and, above, the Conciergerie where Marie was imprisoned.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ... is doing a school history project on Marie Antoinette,wife of Louis XVI. If we were to visit ... grandpalais.fr) in Paris is staging a major Marie Antoinette exhibitionuntil the end of June. As ... Versailles and the little hamlet whichMarie Antoinette had built there where she and her ...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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As Black denies dressing as Richelieu and his wife as Marie Antoinette, the Mail reveals . . CONRAD'S CARDINAL SIN; Left: The 17th-century real-life Cardinal Richelieu Left: Marie Antoinette.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ... beaconof extravagance and greed, Marie Antoinettethe Austrianborn bride of Louis XVI ... power-crazedRichelieu. He added that, rather than Marie Antoinette, Barbarafamous for her hundreds of ... benediction, beatific grin and the lovely Marie Antoinetteor is that a barmaid? in his ...
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 "Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY)")
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Marie Antoinette, too clueless to say `let them eat cake'.
Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY)
; ... Antoinette's mother, the Austrian empress Maria Theresa, thought her daughter was clueless. Antoinette's brother, Joseph II, emperor of Austria, predicted that she and her king would ... convince themselves that moldy bread is in fact painted for dramatic effect _ Louis and Marie Antoinette attempt ...
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