![]() She was neither heroine nor martyred saint, the museum visitor reads in an early gallery. 17, simultaneously recites and dismisses the contrary characterizations of one of history's most cultishly fascinating figures. "Let them eat cake," according to Marie-Antoinette biographer Stefan Zweig, is just one of many groundless myths about the legendary figure whose brief life (1755-1793) stretched from a sunny royal childhood in Austria to the opulence of French court as the wife of Louis XVI to death by guillotine in the French Revolution's symbolic hammer blow to the Ancien Régime.Ī delectable text panel for "Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles," installed at the Legion of Honor through Feb. It was her most famous line, and she may never have said it. Collection of the Hessische Hausstiftung, Germany. ![]() ![]() Facebook Twitter Email Elisabeth Louise Vig?e Le Brun (1755-1842) Marie-Antoinette en gaulle (Marie-Antoinette in a Muslin Dress), 1783. ![]()
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