The young Marie Antoinette.
Versailles, viewed from one of the windows.
The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
The royal chapel at Versailles where Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin Louis Auguste were married in May 1770.
Marie Antoinette’s bedchamber at Versailles. She gave birth to her children on a special birthing bed placed in front of this fireplace.
The ornate canopy of Marie Antoinette’s state bed at Versailles.
The wall decoration in Marie Antoinette’s bedchamber at Versailles.
The concealed door beside Marie Antoinette’s bed, through which she escaped the mob in October 1789.
1787 portrait by Madame Vigée-Lebrun of Marie Antoinette with her children, which now hangs in its original place in the Queen’s apartments at Versailles.
The Petit Trianon.
The salon at Petit Trianon where Marie Antoinette entertained her friends.
Marie Antoinette’s bedchamber at Petit Trianon.
Marie Antoinette’s 1783 portrait by Madame Vigée-Lebrun hanging in Petit Trianon.
The Conciergerie.
Reconstruction of Marie Antoinette’s cell in the Conciergerie. She was actually lodged in the cell next door but this conveys just how grim her situation was.
Memorial to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, basilica Saint Denis, Paris.
Memorial to Louis XVI, Basilica Saint Denis, Paris. The couple were ceremoniously reinterred there on the anniversary of the King’s execution.
Slab marking Marie Antoinette’s burial place in the crypt of the Basilica Saint Denis in Paris.
Memorial to the ‘first’ Dauphin, Louis Joseph who died in June 1789.
Memorial to Louis XVII, who died in June 1795. The boy’s embalmed heart was interred close to his parents in 2004.
Exterior of the Chapelle Expiatore, Paris.
Interior of the Chapelle Expiatore, Paris.
Louis XVI Called to Immortality, Sustained by an Angel, Francois Bosio, Chapelle Expiatoire, Paris.
Marie Antoinette supported by Religion, Jean Pierre Cortot in the Chapelle Expiatore, Paris.