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Antonia Fraser, one of Mary’s biographers, believes the Lennoxlove mask is most likely the death mask of one of the early lady Hamilton’s rather than of Mary herself. However, without further evidence, we can never know if one, both or neither is the Queen of Scot’s death mask.
Marie's is a story of a charmed life and tragic death. What was her childhood like? How was her life with Louis XVI at Versailles and what caused her eventua...
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Learn how Marie Grosholtz, aka Madame Tussaud, made a fortune from sculpting death masks of guillotined heads during the French Revolution and later became a celebrity in London. See her waxworks of Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Queen Victoria and more.
- Marie Antoinette’s Life at The Conciergerie
- The Years Before Marie Antoinette’s Death
- How The French Revolution Upended The Monarchy
- The Former French Queen’s Trial and Sentence
- Inside The Death of Marie Antoinette
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Tucked away in its cavernous halls, Marie Antoinette’s life at the Conciergerie couldn’t have been more divorced from her life of luxury in Versailles. Formerly the seat of power for the French monarchy in the Middle Ages, the imposing Gothic palace lorded over the Île de la Cité in the center of Paris as a part administrative center, part prison d...
Marie Antoinette embraced the frivolity that came so naturally to her in a way that stood out even in Versailles. Four years after coming to the heart of French political life, she and her husband became its leaders when they were crowned king and queen in 1774. She was only 18 and was frustrated by her and her husband’s polar opposite personalitie...
However soft her heart was one-on-one, the underclass of France grew to consider her a scapegoat for all of France’s ills. People called her L’Autrichienne (a play on her Austrian heritage and chienne, the French word for bitch). The “diamond necklace affair”made matters even worse, when a self-styled countess fooled a cardinal into purchasing an e...
In January 1793, King Louis XVI was sentenced to death for conspiring against the state. He was allowed to spend a few short hours with his family until his execution before a crowd of 20,000. Marie Antoinette, meanwhile, was still in limbo. In early August she was transferred from the Temple to the Conciergerie, known as “the antechamber to the gu...
Shortly before she met the guillotine at the Place de la Révolution, most of her snow-white locks were cut off. At 12:15 p.m., she stepped on the scaffold to greet Charles-Henri Sanson, the notorious executioner who had just beheaded her husband 10 months earlier. Though the man in the black mask was an early supporter of the Guillotine machine, he...
Learn about the last 11 weeks of the doomed queen of France, from her imprisonment at the Conciergerie to her beheading at the Place de la Révolution. Discover the events that led to the French Revolution and the fall of the Ancien Régime.
14 de abr. de 2022 · How did Marie Antoinette really look like? See her death mask and portraits brought to life by a modern artist. Learn about the history and the wax worker who made the mask.
7 de nov. de 2022 · Learn about the fate of the former queen of France, who was accused of treason and executed by the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793. Find out how her death mask became a symbol of the Reign of Terror and a macabre souvenir.
Tussaud made a wax death mask of many famous revolution victims, including Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, Madame Elizabeth, Princess Lamballe, Robespierre, Danton, and Marat.
