Let them eat cake”. It’s quoted in movies, textbooks, and dinner-table debates. But there’s a twist—Marie Antoinette probably ...
I guess it’s official now: Marie Antoinette is a 21st-century American cultural metaphor in the tragic airhead/poor-little-rich-kid vein. A sort of Danube Valley Girl. A Habsburg Kardashian. Barely ...
Kirsten Dunst played a young Marie Antoinette in Sofia Coppola’s lavish, occasionally anachronistic 2006 period drama Maria Antoinette. It covers some of the same territory as the new PBS series, ...
The 300-carat necklace thought to be at the center of the infamous 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' that contributed to the French Revolution sold at auction in Geneva Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend ...
The hashtag #CarrieAntoinette, which compares prime minister Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie Johnson to the French queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), has been criticized as sexist. Commentators feel it ...
Donald Trump is partial to sharing AI images of himself, but he might not find this one as flattering. California governor ...
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Marie Antoinette may not have made it through the French revolution, but her jewelry sure did. And it has only gotten more valuable over time. A set of her jewels hit the auction block yesterday in ...
Sometimes to understand the present, we must look at the past. In 2017, playwright Terry Guest grappled with how America could elect someone so outwardly racist as Donald Trump. It shocked him into ...