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Georges Danton attempted to negotiate with the Emperor for Marie Antoinette's release from captivity, but Francis was unwilling to make any concessions in return.
She also developed a mistrust of intelligent older women as a result of her mother's close relationship with the Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Marie Antoinette's older sister.
Performed without anesthesia and requiring three long months to take, at last Marie Antoinette's smile, " very beautiful and straight ", satisfied France.
Later, she met the rest of the family, including her husband's youngest sister, Madame Élisabeth, who at the end of Marie Antoinette's life would become her closest and most loyal friend.
" ( Later, on the eve of the Revolution, and as Marie Antoinette's unpopularity grew, l ' Autrichienne was easily transformed into l ' Autruchienne, a pun making use of the words autruche " ostrich " and chienne " bitch ".
In fact, she had been instrumental ousting from power the duc de Choiseul, who had helped orchestrate the Franco-Austrian alliance as well as Marie Antoinette's own marriage.
Although the limit of their conversation was Marie Antoinette's banal comment to the royal mistress that, " there are a lot of people at Versailles today ", Mme du Barry was satisfied and the crisis, for the most part, dissipated.
She was expected by tradition to spend money on her attire, so as to outshine other women at Court, being the leading example of fashion in Versailles ( the previous queen, Maria Leszczyńska, had died in 1768, two years prior to Marie Antoinette's arrival ).
Marie Antoinette's situation became more precarious when, on 6 August 1775, her sister-in-law, the comtesse d ' Artois, gave birth to a son, the duc d ' Angoulême ( who later became the presumptive heir to the French throne when his father, the comte d ' Artois, became King Charles X of France in 1824 ).
Although the Petit Trianon had been built for Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, it became associated with Marie Antoinette's perceived extravagance.
... the innovativeness of Marie Antoinette's country retreat would attract her subjects ’ fierce disapproval, even as it aimed to bolster her autonomy and enhance her prestige ...
In addition, Marie Antoinette's brother, the Emperor Joseph, began making claims on the throne of Bavaria based upon his second marriage to the princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria.
Despite the general celebration over the birth of the Dauphin, Marie Antoinette's political influence, such as it was, did not benefit Austria.
The Hameau was one of Marie Antoinette's contributions to augmenting the chateau at Versailles and can be viewed by the public to this day.
Marie Antoinette's execution on 16 October 1793.
Both Marie Antoinette's body and that of Louis XVI were exhumed on 18 January 1815, during the Bourbon Restoration, when the comte de Provence had become King Louis XVIII.
The key figure was Marie Antoinette's brother, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II.
On 5 May 1778, Dr. Lassonne, Marie Antoinette's private physician, confirmed her pregnancy .< ref > Castelot, André, Madame Royale, Librairie Académique Perrin, Paris, 1962, p. 15, ISBN, ( French ).</ ref > On 19 December 1778, the Queen gave birth to a daughter, who was named Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, and given the honorific title Madame Royale.
" Later, he embarked upon a lifelong love affair with the beautiful Louise de Polastron ( 1764 – 1804 ), the sister-in-law of Marie Antoinette's closest companion, the Duchess of Polignac.
As part of Marie Antoinette's social set, Charles often appeared opposite her in the private theatre of her favourite royal retreat, the Petit Trianon.
She was also a maternal granddaughter of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Marie Antoinette's favourite sister.
Marie Antoinette's Cell at Conciergerie
Marie Antoinette's cell was converted into a chapel dedicated to her memory.
However many drawn up plans failed with either Marie Antoinette's refusal to leave her children behind in favor of a faster carriage or Louis XVI's reluctance to become a fugitive King.

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De Amore was written at the request of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Albert Frederick was married in 1573 to Marie Eleonore of Cleves, a daughter of Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and Archduchess Maria of Austria ( 1531 – 1581 ).
His aunt, the Dauphine of France, had wanted to engage her daughter Marie Zéphyrine of France to Anthony ; Marie Zéphyrine died in 1755 abandoning plans.
#* Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte ( 1822 – 1891 ), called Plon-Plon married Princess Marie Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
She had three children, a daughter ( who went to live at the Dominican Abbey in Poissy in 1397 as a companion to the king's daughter, Marie ), a son Jean, and another child who died in childhood.
This proved an excellent social opening for Beatty, who established a longstanding relationship with the Duke's eldest daughter, Marie, and with other members of the court.
* Diane Marie Disney, Walt's daughter
Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.
In April 1145, Eleanor gave birth to a daughter, Marie.
A marriage between Henry and Eleanor's daughter, Marie, had indeed been declared impossible for this very reason.
It is Eleanor ’ s court in Poitiers that some believe to have been the ‘ Court of Love ’, where Eleanor and her daughter Marie meshed and encouraged the ideas of troubadours, chivalry, and courtly love into a single court.
He claims that several women, including Eleanor and her daughter Marie de Champagne, would sit and listen to the quarrels of lovers and act as a jury to the questions of the court that revolved around acts of romantic love.
The proxy marriage of state of his daughter Marie Louise of Austria to Napoleon on 10 March 1810 was assuredly his most severe defeat.
Joachim Frederick's second marriage, on 23 October 1603, was to Eleanor of Prussia, born 12 August 1583, daughter of Albert Frederick and Marie Eleonore of Cleves.
In an article for the magazine Marie Claire ( published by Hearst Corporation ), Olson's 23-year-old daughter Emily Peterson dismissed her mother's radical past with the SLA, saying:
After serving briefly as professor of physics at Dijon Lycée in 1848, he became professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, where he met and courted Marie Laurent, daughter of the university's rector, in 1849.
His first wife was Laraine Marie Brennan ; they have a daughter, Catherine.
In 1681, Rømer returned to Denmark and was appointed professor of astronomy at the University of Copenhagen, and the same year he married Anne Marie Bartholin, the daughter of Rasmus Bartholin.
Then in 1202, disaffected patrons petitioned the French king to summon John to answer their charges in his capacity as John's feudal lord, and, when the English king refused to appear, Philip again took up the claims of Arthur, to whom he betrothed his six-year-old daughter, Marie.
Frisch married Marie Smedal in 1920 and they had a daughter, Ragna.
Stig Anderson was married to Gudrun Anderson, and had two sons, Anders and Lasse, and a daughter Marie.
His daughter, Marie Ledin ( wife of Swedish star and ABBA concert backing vocalist Tomas Ledin ) was also involved in the music industry.
******** daughter Marie de ' Medici married Henry IV of France

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