Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette is often remembered simply as the queen who lost her head, but her life—and her death—tells a far richer, more tragic story. Born an Austrian archduchess, she arrived…

Marie Antoinette didn’t just live at Versailles—she escaped it. Tucked away from the gilded halls and suffocating etiquette of court life was her private retreat: the Hameau de la Reine,…