Béatrix de Choiseul
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Béatrix de Choiseul, Duchess of Gramont was a French salonnière and bibliophile. She was known for her close relationship to her brother the Duke of Choiseaul and credited with an influential position
Portrait de la duchesse de Grammont, by Alexander Roslin, c. 1774
Marie Antoinette
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Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the French monarchy in 1792 during the French Revolution.
Béatrix de Choiseul
…Madame du Barry, while Béatrix "made some outrageous remarks, in which she did not spare even the King." The Comtesse de Gramont, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette and the sister-in-law of Béatrix, participated in the continuing boycott and made a rude remark to du Barry, causing the king to exile the comtesse…
Marie-Antoinette à la Rose, 1783
Archduchess Maria Antonia c. 1762 by Jean-Étienne Liotard
Portrait by Martin van Meytens, c. 1767–1768
Archduchess Maria Antonia depicted at age 13 in a 1769 portrait by Joseph Ducreux, which was sent to the Palace of Versailles in May 1769