Word: archduchess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...debauchee, Louis XV, passing first into the hands of the ministers, and then into those of the mistresses of the king, the worst of whom was the notorious Madame Du Barry. Upon their accession to the throne, the Dauphin of France, Louis XVI, and particularly his Austrian wife, the archduchess, Marie Antoinette, met with great favor. But the king proved weak and obstinate; while new complications--the trial of Cardinal de Rohan, and the scandalous libels which the adventuress Jeanne de la Motte directed against the queen--turned into hatred the former national popularity of innocent Marie Antoinette. Once...