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.
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
Marie Thérèse of France
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Marie-Thérèse was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France, and their only child to reach adulthood. In 1799, she married her cousin Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, th
Marie Antoinette
…Eight months later, in April 1778, it was suspected that the queen was pregnant, which was officially announced on 16 May. Marie Antoinette's daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, Madame Royale, was born at Versailles on 19 December 1778. The child's paternity was contested in the libelles, as were all her children's. In the…
Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1816
Marie-Thérése with her brother, Louis Joseph (by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1785)
Marie-Thérèse in Vienna in 1796 soon after her departure from France (by Heinrich Friedrich Füger)
Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (collection Musée de la Légion d'honneur)