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a marie antoinette blog
Adelaide Ristori as Marie Antoinette.
Images from the University of Washington’s Digital Collection
A great-niece of Marie Antoinette: Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (14 July 1817 - 25 March 1886).
Maria Theresa’s father, Francis IV of Modena, was the son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, a son of Maria Theresa and brother of Marie Antoinette.
Maria Theresa had another yet connection to her great-aunt: She was chosen by Marie Antoinette’s surviving daughter, Marie Therese Charlotte, to marry the grandson of Charles X, Henri, the comte de Chambord. They married in 1846, although it was said that Henri preferred her younger sister, Maria Beatrix. Maria Theresa was later instrumental in the creation of a crypt for the French Royal Family in Görz, which is now Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She was buried there alongside her husband after her death in 1886.
Adelaide Ristori as Marie Antoinette
Images from the University of Washington Digital Collection
‘The Happy Days of Marie Antoinette’
The farewell of Louis XVI and his family. 1802 engraving.
A French fan decorated with the profiles of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Louis Charles, the dauphin. 1815.
© Bordeaux, musée des Arts décoratifs, © Service des musées de France, 2010
A women’s dinner held in the theater of the Tuileries Palace in 1835
(C) RMN (Musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
An engraving of Marie Antoinette, early 19th century, which was “dedicated to Madame Duchesse de Angouleme,” Marie Antoinette’s daughter.
