
Marie Antoinette
The Year of Marie Antoinette – Becoming Queen
At the end of April 1774, King Louis XV of France began to suffer from bouts of fever. He had been warned by his doctors “not to make love quite so often.” His beloved mistress, Madame du Barry, tried to comfort him. The Duke of Croÿ wrote, “For eight days, the King often looked and [read more]