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Hour after hour it was one ritual after another and always the same, including dressing upon waking, lever – which included the “toilette” carried out with the help of a party of ladies-in-waiting – and the undressing, coucher. The "privilege of entering" these "functions" was a much-aspired-to sign of prestige.

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Jeanne de Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte, who was gifted with inventiveness and diabolical cunning, had convinced the unwitting and naïve Cardinal de Rohan to purchase a very expensive necklace at the queen's request, a request that did not actually exist. The dishonest and complex plot was hard to explain and caused a stir, contributing to ruining Marie Antoinette's reputation and the monarchy’s prestige.

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Surrrounded by their children, Marie Thérèse and Francis listened to the young Mozart and his sister for six hours. Legend has it that the "six-year-old" genius took advantage of the occasion to throw himself at Marie Antoniette's feet to declare that he would marry her one day. This may not be the way things really went, but the anecdote is quite plausible.

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It was Marie Thérèse, Queen of Austria, who pushed for her daughter to be wed to the heir to the French throne. This in turn led to her being crowned. The most solid pillar supporting the monarchies were marriages between royal families, and in this case Marie's mother was trying to protect their alliance with France which until that time had not been seen as a good deal for the residents of Versailles.

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Louis XIV, absolute sovereign, was nicknamed the Sun King for his "aspirations" to become as powerful as the Sun. One day he even dressed up to look like the Sun for a party!

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These words are traditionally attributed to Marie Antoinette, who is said to have pronounced them in referring to her malnourished people during a revolt unleashed by a lack of bread. The truth is that she never said them; instead, it is likely that her critics attributed the phrase to her to delegitimize the queen in the eyes of the public. Today, we'd call this fake news!

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Having arrived at the square where the guillotine was set up, with her "gliding" step that in the rooms of Versailles the courtiers had observed with great enthusiasm, she climbed the steps to the guillotine, stopping only to apologize to the executioner for having stepped on his foot: " Pardon me, Sir, I meant not to do it”.

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The king loved hunting and mechanical works, and he had a small laboratory where he built locks.