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Marie Antoinette

The Year of Marie Antoinette – Marie Antoinette & The Countess of Provence (Part three)

Read part two here. The only surviving child of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette was their eldest daughter Madame Royale. She was eventually released from prison in December 1795 and travelled to Courland, where the Count of Provence was living. His wish was that she would marry his nephew Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, the [read more]

countess provence marie josephine savoy
Marie Antoinette

The Year of Marie Antoinette – Marie Antoinette & The Countess of Provence (Part two)

Read part one here. After becoming Queen, Marie Antoinette had “continued to amuse herself almost childishly with the Provences and the Artois, granting them liberties ordinarily given in families, but suddenly, remembering that she was the Queen, ‘she indulged in remarks on the superiority of her rank and slightly mortifying comparisons for the other princes [read more]

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Adela of Champagne

Burial places of the Queens of France

Basilica of St. Denis Ermentrude of Orléans – Basilica of St. Denis (Paris, France) Richilde of the Ardennes – Basilica of St. Denis (Paris, France) Adelaide of Paris – Saint-Corneille Abbey  (Compiègne,France) Richardis of Swabia – Andlau Abbey  (Alsace, France) Théodrate of Troyes – Unknown Frederuna – Abbey of Saint-Remi (Reims, France) Eadgifu of Wessex – Abbey of Saint-Médard de Soissons (Picardie, France) Partially in [read more]