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Austrian Mint: Marie Antoinette
In connection with the issue of an ATS 1000 gold coin, site offers a press release, description of the coin, biography of the unfortunate queen, and a chronology of her life.
http://www.austrian-mint.com/e/marant.html
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Marie Antoinette
Biography of the Queen of France.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09665a.htm
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Columbia Encyclopedia: Marie Antoinette
Biographical entry on the eighteenth-century queen.
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/MarieAnt.html
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Did Marie Antoinette really say, "Let them eat cake"?
Cecil Adams tackles two theories about the infamous remark.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html
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Letter to Her Mother, 1773
Excerpt from a letter from Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1773marieantonette.html
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Marie Antoinette
Information on Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresa, and other characters during the French Revolution.
http://www.marie-antoinette.info/
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Marie Antoinette Online
Resources on the life and times of Marie Antoinette including biography, image gallery, and reviewed links. Sympathetic toward the doomed queen.
http://www.marie-antoinette.org
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Marie Antoinette Portraits
Thirty paintings and drawings of the queen, most by Vigée Le Brun.
http://www.batguano.com/VigeeMAgallery.html
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Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Portrait, biographical profile, links.
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/antoinette.html
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Marie-Antoinette
Illustrated profile of the Austrian princess who became Queen of France. At the web site of the Château de Versailles.
http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/240_Marie-Antoinette.php
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Royalty.nu: Marie Antoinette
Biography of the queen.
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html
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