Queen marie antoinette

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Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband Louis XVI were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has been vilified as a woman who was out of touch with the common folk and was famously reported to have said that if the French people couldn’t eat bread, then “let them eat cake.” But was she really that bad, and did she really tell her subjects to eat cake?

(A lecture by Plinio Correa de Oliveira) Most Reverend Monsignor Director of this Academy, Gentlemen Academicians: A simple listing of the titles with which she was known during her short life as Marie Antoinette of Hapsburg, and later Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette wax head. This was done by Madam Taussaud and it was the start of her famous Wax Museum.

so last week I finally got to see the movie...pure eye candy!! this scene was breathtaking - that wallpaper!!!! wowzer!!! but also it was very sad as it was when Marie found out her sister in law was pregnant...any woman who has been struggling to fall pregnant would know....

Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated queen of France, is remembered for two things: losing her head and uttering the callous phrase, “Let them eat cake.” Though it ...