What happened to Marie Antoinette's?

Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 after the Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against the state. The royal family had been compelled to leave Versailles in 1789 and live in captivity in Paris.
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What happened to Marie Antoinette children?

Like many children in this period of time 2 of the children of Marie Antoinette died prematurely, Sophie Beatrix was not even a year old, and the Dauphin, Louis Joseph died at the age of 7 from tuberculosis. After his death, Louis Charles became the new dauphin of France.
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What happened to Marie Antoinette and why?

Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette follows him to the guillotine on October 16, 1793.
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Are there any French royalty left?

France is a Republic, and there's no current royal family recognized by the French state. Still, there are thousands of French citizens who have titles and can trace their lineage back to the French Royal Family and nobility.
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How old was Louis XVI when he married Marie Antoinette?

On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen-year-old Habsburg Archduchess Maria Antonia (better known by the French form of her name, Marie Antoinette), his second cousin once removed and the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, the Empress Maria Theresa.
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How did Marie Antoinette do her hair?

During Marie Antoinette's time in the French court, powdered hair was considered somewhat mandatory. Nobody showed up at court without it. The powder applied to posh people's heads consisted of either potato or rice flower starch (or Cyprus powder, which is made from reindeer moss or another similar lichen).
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Are there any descendants of Marie Antoinette?

Should that ever happen, however, none of the future royals would be a direct descendant of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, as none of their children produced an heir.
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Who is the rightful king of France?

Louis Alphonse de Bourbon (Spanish: Luis Alfonso Gonzalo Víctor Manuel Marco de Borbón y Martínez-Bordiú; French: Louis Alphonse Gonzalve Victor Emmanuel Marc de Bourbon; born 25 April 1974) is the head of the House of Bourbon by primogeniture.
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Did Marie Antoinette bathe milk?

Marie Antoinette apparently used either a special herbal mixture that included salt, thyme and marjoram, or perfumed sachets of sweet almonds, pine nuts, and lily bulbs which had been designed especially for her baths by her perfumer. Like everything else in her life, bathing was not a private occasion.
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What color was Marie Antoinette eyes?

Physical appearance. In her words, she was regarded as "quite pretty." Marie Antoinette had blue eyes and ash blonde hair, as well as a fair complexion.
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Did Marie Antoinette have a beauty spot?

Famous for her powdered hair, alabaster skin, rosy cheeks, rosebud lips and quintessential beauty spot, this Queen's look has stood the test of time.
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How old was the Dauphin when he married Marie Antoinette?

To consolidate this diplomatic reconciliation, Louis XV and Empress Maria Theresa decided to marry their respective children. The project came to fruition approximately 12 years later with the marriage of the Duke of Berry, Dauphin of France, aged 15, to Marie-Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria, aged 14.
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What nickname did Marie Antoinette receive from the people of France?

As a result of the public perception that she had single-handedly ruined the national finances, Marie Antoinette was given the nickname of "Madame Déficit" in the summer of 1787.
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Who was the last queen of France?

It's the 18th century at the Court of Versailles, the residence of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, a figure who is still controversial today. Born 1755 in Vienna, at the tender age of 14 Marie Antoinette marries heir to the French throne Louis-Auguste, who later became King Louis XVI of France.
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Did Marie Antoinette brush her teeth?

She notes that Louis XV, the grandfather of Marie Antoinette's husband, was "appalled when he heard about her poor grooming while she was still a princess in Austria and insisted that French hairdressers and clothes be sent to her along with a French dentist to straighten her teeth and encourage her to brush them more ...
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What was Marie Antoinette's real hair color?

Antoinette loved all-natural, D.I.Y. elixirs for her hair, too. In fact, underneath her towering gray wigs, she was a strawberry blonde.
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Why did the French wear white makeup?

White Lead Powder

Pale skin was considered beautiful – it meant you spent little time outdoors in the sun – unlike those common farmers and peasants. To make themselves as pale as possible both men and women would paint their faces with lead-based makeup. Of course, we now know that lead is poisonous.
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Did Marie Antoinette bathe with clothes on?

The Queen's bathing routine was different than what most people today would recognise. The bathtub was usually rolled into her bathroom by her servants and filled with water. Rather than being completely naked the Queen always wore a full-length linen gown.
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Which King did not bathe?

King Louis XIV (1638-1715) was terrified of bathing; he's said to have taken only three baths in his life. That fear was shared by the noblility in the 17th Century – it ws thought that was thought that water spread disease (so the less you bathed, the less vulnerable you were).
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Did Versailles stink?

Built on swampland, Versailles was described by a visitor in 1764 as an odiferous cesspool of dead cats, urine, excrement, slaughtered pigs, standing water, and mosquitoes. Inside the palace, things smelled different. Many royals in Louis XIV's day eschewed hot water baths, believing them bad for the health.
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Did king Louis only bathe twice?

King Louis XIV is said to have only bathed twice in lifetime. He found bathing a disturbing act, as did Queen Isabel I of Spain who also confessed to having only two baths; on the day of her birth and the day of her marriage.
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Were there bathrooms in Versailles?

There are several toilets and free changing tables for babies at your disposal all over the Estate. In the Palace, there are toilets and changing tables before the ticket checks in the South Ministers' Wing and after the ticket checks in the basement of the Dufour Pavilion (Entrance A).
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What drugs were used at Versailles?

Tobacco, herbs and possibly opium in lauanum - snuff and coffee, though coffee was very expensive. Coca leaves didn't travel well and were not used. The sniffing of that white stuff was fantasy.
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Who was the smelliest king?

Louis XIV was the Smelliest King of All Time.
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