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Marie Antoinette and her Children
Painting depicting Queen Marie Antoinette and her three children. On the far right the Dauphin, Louis Joseph, points to an empty crib where Marie Antoinette's fourth child, Princess Sophie, had to be painted out after she died in infancy...

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Marie Antoinette in 1791/1792
Portrait of Marie Antoinette, painted by Alexander Kucharsky in 1791 or 1792, while she was a virtual prisoner in the Tuileries Palace. Only 36 or 37, Marie Antoinette's hair had been turned white prematurely after the failed Flight to Varennes...

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Trial of Marie Antoinette
Depiction of the trial of Marie Antoinette, 15 October 1793. Marie Antoinette herself is prominently featured on the right, arm outstretched as she defends herself. Sitting at the table across from her with the feathered hat is Fouquier-Tinville...

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Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution, 16 October 1793
Marie Antoinette being taken from the prison of the Conciergerie to the guillotine on 16 October 1793. She appears in the center wearing a white dress, contrasted with the dark clothed figures around her. Painting by William Hamilton, 1794...

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Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress
Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress, painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. This painting was criticized for depicting a queen in informal attire. Hesse House Foundation, collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten...

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Marie Antoinette in 1775
Portrait of Marie Antoinette, oil on canvas painting by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, 1775.
Palace of Versailles.

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Execution of Marie Antoinette
Execution of Marie Antoinette, 16 October 1793. Executioner Charles-Henri Sanson shows her severed head to the crowd. Painting by an unknown author

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Marie de France
Marie de France (wrote c. 1160-1215 CE), from an illuminated manuscript now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France: BnF, Arsenal Library, Ms. 3142 fol. 256.

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Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis De Lafayette
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis De Lafayette, oil on canvas painting by Charles Wilson Peale, 1779-1780.
Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.

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Marie Antoinette in the Temple, 1793
A 1793 oil painting portrait by Sophie Prieur of Marie Antoinette (1755-93) former Queen of France, during her imprisonment in the Tower of the Temple, following the execution of her husband Louis XVI of France in January 1793. The plain...