The phrase actually appears in Rousseau’s writings, where he quotes a “great princess,” not Marie Antoinette. The line was ...

I’m very surprised I’ve lived this long, and I’m very thankful that I’m strong enough to still enjoy a little bit of my children and family.

Kate Moss at the Paris Ritz for Vogue US April 2012 issue (© Tim Walker; courtesy the Victoria and Albert Museum, all other photos Olivia McEwan/Hyperallergic) LONDON — The question of agency looms ...

Marie Antoinette may or may not have said, “Let them eat cake,” but she definitely piled on the rouge. Now, more than two centuries later, a new generation is following the final queen of France’s ...

Once married, Marie Antoinette wrote to her mother regularly. The final Queen of France was often homesick and would fuss about the performative nature of her aristocratic duties. In one letter ...

The famous portrait is now thought to depict Marie Antoinette's older sister Maria Carolina A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found. Swiss ...

A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found. Swiss painter Jean Etienne Liotard's distinctive drawing of the last person to hold the title of the ...

The 18th-century clothes displayed at the V&A’s new exhibition could almost be worn today By Zuzanna Lachendro The V&A’s new exhibition sets out to prove that Marie Antoinette was a serious patron of ...

Marie Antoinette, the final Queen of France, may have met her untimely death over two centuries ago, but “Marie Antoinette blush” is alive and well in 2025. For a quick history lesson: Austrian-born ...

The V&A Museum's exhibition on the 18 th century French queen, Marie Antoinette, has finally arrived. The UK’s first ever exhibition on the monarch, and only the third to take place outside of France, ...

Throughout my childhood, my mother would read to my sister and me before we went to sleep. I am not sure how old I was, but I remember one night, we had just seen the 1938 Marie Antoinette film with ...

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