Marie antoinette guillotine

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun made the rich look beautiful, before and after the French Revolution. Now she has a show of her own at the Met.

Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated queen of France, is remembered for two things: losing her head and uttering the callous phrase, “Let them eat cake.” Though it ...

Of all the viral marketing campaigns I’ve seen over the last few years, I’ve really been digging how Fringe is carrying-over one of the running...

1793: Marie Antoinette being led to the guillotine, October 16, 1793. Marie Antoinette, 1755 –1793. Queen of France. By Christiaan Josi, after Cornelis van Cuylenburgh (II). Stock Photo

Marie-Antoinette by Heinrich Lossow Above is a young Marie-Antoinette getting ready for a night on the town. It looks like Mercy, the A...

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband Louis XVI were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has been vilified as a woman who was out of touch with the common folk and was famously reported to have said that if the French people couldn’t eat bread, then “let them eat cake.” But was she really that bad, and did she really tell her subjects to eat cake?

Marie Grosholtz sure loved to make death masks of freshly executed criminals.

A Fashionably Dressed Young Woman in the Arcade of the Palais-Royal

From Gaga’s meat dress to Eve’s fig leaf.