French queen Marie Antoinette had four children — Marie-Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie — and all of them suffered tragic fates like their mother. Sophie, the youngest ...

The first season of “Marie Antoinette” ends with the birth of the dauphin, Louis Joseph Xavier François, in 1781, eight years before the beginning of the French Revolution.

Almost 250 years after her birth in 1755, the story of Marie Antoinette captures our imagination still. What has rendered it so dramatic, so worthy of our interest, is not its beginning or its ...

Jewelery from Marie Antoinette’s private collection was sold on ... Both Antoinette, an Austrian archduchess by birth, ... Upon her eventual arrival in Vienna in 1796 she reclaimed her ...

Marie Antoinette gave birth to a daughter, Marie Therese, in December of that year, and this was followed by two sons, in 1781 and 1785, and another daughter in 1786.

Born an archduchess in Vienna, Austria, in 1755, Marie Antoinette was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She married the future French King ...

Marie Antoinette’s mother, Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, had destined her for this marriage from birth, ... including the Vienna of Archduchess Marie Antoinette’s childhood.

Marie Antoinette, France’s last queen, is still able to capture the imagination of the public – or at least buyers with a lot of spare cash – more than 200 years after her unfortunate end. A ...