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Madame de Ventadour and the Child Who Became Louis XV, 1712
In the winter of 1712, the French royal family died.
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María Teresa Rafaela, Dauphine of France: Dead Three Days After Childbirth
On 19 July 1746 she gave birth to a daughter at Versailles. Three days later she would be dead. The heir to the French throne had to be dragged away from her bed.
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Marie Antoinette Holds Up Her Son at the Champ de Mars, 14 July 1790
A queen stood in the rain and held up her five-year-old son to a crowd of three hundred thousand people. "This is my son," she said, "who joins in the same sentiments as me." Within three years, she was dead. Within two more, so was he.
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The Flight to Varennes, June 1791
His face was on every coin in France. Their plan relied on nobody knowing what they looked like.
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Marie Antoinette's Entry into Paris, 8 June 1773
She was seventeen years old when Paris gave itself over to loving her. Twenty years later the same city sent her to the guillotine. On the eighth of June 1773 she stood on the balcony of the Tuileries and wept, and she had no reason yet to know the difference between the two things.
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Mariana Victoria: The Infanta France Sent Back
France spent three years making her French. Then they sent her back. She was seven years old. She had not been consulted about either decision.