When we think of Versailles, we think of Marie Antoinette, opulence, and the last hurrah of the aristocratic high life before the French Revolution put an end to such folly in 1789. We may also think ...
Marie Antoinette has been portrayed as the spendthrift wife who meddled in the political affairs of her weak-willed husband, Louis XVI. But she was also a devoted mother to her four ...
The Palace of Versailles, known as château de Versailles in French, is a paragon of Baroque architecture that once served as a royal residence and the de facto capital of France—but its beginnings are ...
Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the French aristocracy that he was the royal couple’s long-lost progeny. Some ...
Louis XIV, roi Soleil. Louis XVI, roi décapité. Plus flamboyant ou plus sanglant, ça n’existe pas. Entre les deux, Louis XV ressemble à l’invisible, malgré plus de cinquante ans de règne. Qui était-il ...
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