PARIS, France — With the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony over, many of the visuals are making people wonder about a significant chapter in the city's rich history — Marie Antoinette.

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Few members of the French monarchy are as popular outside of France as Marie Antoinette. Queen during the volatile French ...

“Marie Antoinette” (2012), written by David Adjmi, is a theatrical retelling of the life and death of the infamous queen who led France up until its revolution. The Tufts Department of Theater, Dance, ...

Marie Antoinette was known — and eventually beheaded — for her lavish spending. The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI, met their untimely ends after squandering their vast fortune ...

Imagine at age 14 or even younger, you learned your life's mission was to not only produce a male heir to a foreign country's throne but to secure peace and avoid war for your country's survival.

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 ...

Have you heard about "Marie Antoinette"? If you followed the news from Cannes, you know Sofia Coppola's movie about the legendary French queen was booed at that storied proving ground. The Web is ...

Season 1 of Marie Antoinette opens up with the vivacious, 14-year-old dauphine finding her bearings in the intimidating, grandiose halls of Versailles. Sent to solidify the Franco-Austrian alliance, ...

A lover of music who played several instruments and sang, Marie Antoinette regularly held carefree musical and theatrical performances in her bucolic Trianon retreat in France, just outside the Palace ...

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On the new period drama “Marie Antoinette,” you won’t hear the title character say the famous line, “Let them eat cake.” “No, that’s actually fake news,” said Emilia Schüle, 30, who stars as the ...