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“Save the queen madame, they’re coming to kill her!”

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

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Ah! Le Bel Oiseau! Doucet fashion plate IX from Gazette du Bon Ton, Volume 2, No. 12 By H. Robert Dammy

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Dr. Franklin is received for the first time in audience as ambassador of the American free state in Versailles in March 20, 1778.

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Vintage ‘Masterpieces in Color’ reproduction of a portrait of Madame Royale and Louis Joseph by Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun.

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Blind-Man’s Buff by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1750 (details)

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The Rococo era was defined by seemingly contrasting aspects: extravagance and a quest for simplicity, light colors and heavy materials, aristocrats and the bourgeoisie. This culmination produced a very diverse era in fashion like none ever before. Although this movement was largely ended with the French Revolution, its ideas and main aspects strongly affected future fashions for decades.

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Scene fra Christian VII’s hof

Kristian Zahrtmann

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The queen is very kind to me just now; we are going together to Saint-Cyr, which she calls my cradle. She calls Montreuil my little Trianon. I have been to hers the last few days with her, without any consequences, and there was no attention she did not show me. She prepared for me one of those surprises in which she excels; but what we did most was to weep over the death of my poor little niece [Sophie].

–Madame Elisabeth to the Marquise de Bombelles, 25 June 1787

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Still one of my favorite photosets in the world. I always hope these two were as happy in life as they look in these photos.

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Beautiful

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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

From an 18th century engraving.

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Sophie Hélène Béatrice, the fourth child born to Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, died on 19 June, 1787. The infant girl, called ‘my little angel’ by her mother, had suffered from poor health since her birth nearly a year before and died after several days of convulsions. Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, who was working on a portrait of Marie Antoinette and her children at the time of Sophie’s death, subsequently painted the infant out and left her empty cradle as a testament to her short life.