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DRESSED FOR EXCESS.
Marie Antoinette, the ex-Queen of France, was thirty-seven when she was taken from her cell in the Conciergerie, the fourteenth-century fortress on the Ile de la Cite, and paraded in an open oxcart to the scaffold in the Place de la Revolution, a mile away. Some of the onlookers in the vast crowd lining the route that morning, on October 16, 1793, may have been among those screaming obscenities at her in 1789, when they marched with pikes on Versailles; or axed their way, in 1792, into her apartment in the Tuileries, where they spent their fury on her mirrors and closets; or waved the severed head of her friend and look-alike, the lovely Princesse de Lamballe, on a halberd ...
- The Queen Goes Courting. (Books).(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)(Marie...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Desligneres, Lucile November 1, 2001 700+ words
...608 pp., $35. Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Evelyne...all the fuss about Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France? Two biographies...and Evelyne Lever's Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France. Whatever...
- MARIE ANTOINETTE - Last Queen of France an Enduring Cultural Icon as Multiple...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 18, 2006 700+ words
...Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette," by Sena Jeter...October 2006); "Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution...October 2006. MARIE ANTOINETTE, narrated by Blair...moving images, the queen's own words...
- The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Colwill, Elizabeth April 1, 2001 700+ words
...vilification of Marie-Antoinette. To elucidate...battle over the queen's virtue, her...privilege; the Marie-Antoinette mythology co...the "race" of queens also abolished...antipathy for the queen, and the women...
- Queen of calumnies? This exhibition's attempt to rehabilitate Marie-Antoinette...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Vogtherr, Christoph June 1, 2008 700+ words
...tends to negate Marie-Antoinette's role in the...rooms follow Marie-Antoinette from Vienna to...presents the queen at the time of...from Vienna, Marie-Antoinette herself appears...century European queens were not selected...
- Marie Antoinette was 'one of us': British accounts of the Martyred Wicked Queen.
- Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation Binhammer, Katherine June 22, 2003 700+ words
...to venture that Marie Antoinette could be considered the "People's Queen." She certainly...guillotining of the Queen in Paris on October...Like Princess Di, Marie Antoinette was a woman in...Robinson reveres Marie Antoinette as a symbol of...was decrying the ...
- Three queens.(Film)(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant McDonald, Neil March 1, 2007 700+ words
A FILM ABOUT Marie Antoinette that stops short...about the tragic queen since the 1938...biopic. This new Marie Antoinette begins with her...Beaumarchais with the Queen as Rosina. Of...events the way Marie Antoinette does. Coppola...
- "Let them eat cake!" a new PBS documentary examines the many myths surrounding...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) September 1, 2006 700+ words
...portrait, "Marie Antoinette," filmmaker...surrounding the last queen of France...Blair Brown, "Marie Antoinette" weaves together...images, the Queen's own words...Cosandey. "Marie Antoinette" traces the Queen's journey...
- The original style queen.(Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the...
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Marso, Lori May 1, 2007 700+ words
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution...placing the young queen in a perilous position...Bourbon Court, Marie Antoinette's strategy became...their hatred of the queen. Marie Antoinette's style demonstrated...
