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Marie Antoinette

NOUN
  1. queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)

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  • Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am also sorry for that poor Les Miserables
  • The marginal application of bread was inadvertently found by Queen Marie Antoinette of France who later paid with her head for her discovery on the scaffold during the French Revolution.
  • What prompts Marie Antoinette's transformation from callow moralist and pliant dauphine in early chapters to empathic mother and brave stoic in the novel's culmination at the Conciergerie? Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund: Questions
  • She probes the febrile atmosphere in the royal household including tension between Louis and Marie Antoinette.
  • The Spanish Illness Toulouse Valmorain arrived in Saint-Domingue in 1770, the same year the dauphin of France married the Austrian archduchess, Marie Antoinette. 'Island Beneath the Sea'
  • And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" -- a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. Archive 2009-08-01
  • Waking up the next morning, looking up at the grandiose corniced ceilings, marble mantlepiece and antique dressing table, I felt like a slightly less evil Marie Antoinette. Louise Roe: Playing Princess In Paris: My 24 Hours At The Plaza Athenee
  • When first brought to France from the steppes of Russia, the Demoiselle Crane was so named by Queen Marie Antoinette, for its delicate and maiden-like appearance.
  • As for Louis XVI, it seems he, too, found himself unable to consummate his marriage to his Austrian wife, Marie Antoinette.
  • Dolce e Gabbana were caught raking through Marie Antoinette's closet for their collection presented in Milan.
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