Martine Carol
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Martine Carol was a French film actress. She frequently was cast as an elegant blonde seductress. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she was the leading sex symbol and a top box-office draw of Fre
Carol in 1963
Carol in Action of the Tiger (1957)
Martine Carol's grave at the cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes
Madame du Barry
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Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason—particularly being susp
Martine Carol
…to Darling Caroline. She played a series of true life women: Lucrèce Borgia (1953) as Lucrezia Borgia, a big local hit, and Madame du Barry (1954), as Madame du Barry for Christian-Jaque. She played herself in Boum sur Paris (1953). Carol had the title role in Nana (1955) from the novel by Emile Zola, alongside Charles…
Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1782
Portrait of Jeanne Bécu, by François-Hubert Drouais in 1770: Museo del Prado
Madame du Barry, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun; posthumous, between 1789 and 1805. Vigée Le Brun began working on the portrait in 1789, but had to abandon it when she underwent exile the same year, due to the French Revolution. Eventually, the portrait was given back to Vigée Le Brun, who completed it and gifted it to her niece.
The diamond necklace commissioned by King Louis XV for Madame du Barry (reproduction)