Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France

Standard Name: Marie-Antoinette,, Queen of France

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Family and Intimate relationships Honoré de Balzac
For many years HB was romantically linked to Madame de Berny , a god-daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antionette . He was devastated by her death in 1836.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Textual Features Hélène Barcynska
The eponymous heroine of The Activities (officially named Lavinia but always called Lavie) is an American railroad heiress, whose father arranges for her to be introduced into English high society by Lady Loamington, who badly...
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Chatterton
GC was born at the home of a maternal aunt, Margaret Pitt , wife of William Morton Pitt. A beautiful woman, Georgiana's aunt moved among the leading figures of her day. She spent time at...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth, Margravine of Anspach
EMA goes into some detail about the French court and royal family from the time that she lived at Versailles, pausing too to do justice to the talents of Madame Genlis, if only in...
politics Grace Elliott
GE (who by her own account seldom missed a historic occasion) was present when Marie-Antoinette went to the theatre, the Comédie Italienne, with her two eldest children: her last public appearance before her execution.
Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press.
39-41
Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
Apart from the prince (who was named in registering the birth and alluded to in the little girl's baptismal names, Georgina Augusta Frederica), possible fathers included Charles Wyndham (son of Lord Egremont), and Lord Cholmondeley
Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
GE 's relationship with the duc d'Orléans is known to her readers only from her account of him in the days when he had moved on to other women and was increasingly showing a sympathy...
Occupation Grace Elliott
Her biographers, indeed, wonder if she may have been a spy. She spoke to an agent of d'Orléans in Brussels; on a later visit she carried a letter there for Marie-Antoinette ; she may perhaps...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Grace Elliott
GE concentrates on her Revolution experiences; the rest of her life-story remains untold. Her work bears the marks of its birth as oral history. She presents the French Revolution in black and white moral terms...
Family and Intimate relationships Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
In June 1918 EBO 's mother, who had been staying with her in England, began to be worn down by her status as enemy alien, and travelled back to Hungary. She was staying with a...
Textual Production Antonia Fraser
AF published her next historical biography, Marie Antoinette : The Journey.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Foreman, Amanda. “Unfit for a queen”. Guardian Unlimited.
Wroe, Nicholas. “The history woman”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19.
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Friends, Associates Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , and Samuel Johnson . From 1777 she...
Textual Features Rumer Godden
It is set in a Kashmir mountain village, where a young widow, Sophie, settles with her two children. Left short of money by her husband's death, she finds standard colonial life stultifying, feels that the...
Literary Setting Catherine Gore
The queen in question is Marie Antoinette ; the action takes place before and during the French Revolution, at the Trianon of Versailles and at a chateau near Epernay in Champagne.
Gore, Catherine. Gore on Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore. Editor Franceschina, John, Garland.
159, 195
Publishing Mary Hays
She was commissioned to produce this work for the occasion of Queen Caroline's trial, by the publishers T. and J. Allman . Its frontispiece shows Caroline flanked by portraits of Queen Elizabeth , but...

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30 May 1771: A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all...

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30 May 1771

A letter to the Gazetteer attributed all the faults of French absolutist government to the influence of madame Du Barry (1746-93, mistress to the former monarch Louis XV) and to Marie Antoinette .

17 December 1779: It was disapprovingly noted what immense...

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17 December 1779

It was disapprovingly noted what immense sums of public money Marie-Antoinette was paying to her personal friend the comtesse de Polignac .

Around 1780: Large, broad-brimmed hats for women came...

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Around 1780

Large, broad-brimmed hats for women came into fashion, first in Paris, and then in London.

1 April 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about...

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1 April 1789

Hester Lynch Piozzi (a propos reports about Marie Antoinette ) indignantly recorded what she presents as if it was her first encounter with lesbianism.

24 July 1789: Marie Antoinette wrote for her children's...

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24 July 1789

Marie Antoinette wrote for her children's governess Instructions donnè à la marquise de Tourzel, which was later published among her letters.

5-6 October 1789: French market women marched on Versailles...

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5-6 October 1789

French market women marched on Versailles to demand that the king put an end to bread shortages and relocate to Paris, closer to his people.

1 November 1790: Edmund Burke published his Reflections on...

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1 November 1790

Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in certain Societies in London relative to that event.

20-25 June 1791: Louis XVI fled with Marie-Antoinette and...

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20-25 June 1791

Louis XVI fled with Marie-Antoinette and their family, intending to leave France and raise a counter-revolution; they were captured at Varennes near Vichy, and brought back to Paris.

22 August 1791: Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the...

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22 August 1791

Marie-Antoinette wrote to her friend the princesse de Lamballe , persuading the princess to stay away from her for the sake of the safety of both of them.

September 1791: The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and...

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September 1791

The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizeness, dedicated to the Queen, by Olympe de Gouges (formerly Marie Gouze), was published.

April 1792: The Marseillaise was composed in France as...

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April 1792

The Marseillaise was composed in France as a revolutionary song.

3 September 1792: Marie-Antoinette's friend the princesse de...

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3 September 1792

Marie-Antoinette 's friend the princesse de Lamballe was guillotined, and her death manipulated to torture the queen as well as herself.

16 October 1793: Marie-Antoinette was guillotined....

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16 October 1793

Marie-Antoinette was guillotined.

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