Marie Antoinette - Version 2

MARIE ANTOINETTE

Born in 1755, Marie would grow up to become a symbol of extreme extravagance. The daughter of the Empress of Austria, Marie was married at age fifteen to the French dauphin Louis XVI. In 1774 she became Queen of France when her husband inherited the throne.

To ease the boredom of French royal life and the marital neglect she suffered, Marie surrounded herself with young friends and dove into a life of pleasure, hosting lavish parties and theatrical events and wearing outrageously expensive gowns and hairstyles. Scandals surrounded her activities, and her wild spending was ruinous as the common people fell deeper and deeper into financial despair.

Revolution soon followed and the royal court was overthrown. Both Marie and her husband were tried for crimes against their country. Although tried separately and months apart, they were both were found guilty and sentenced to death. On October 16, 1793 the former Queen was hauled alone in a dilapidated cart to the scaffold in Paris where she was beheaded by the guillotine.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Marie is a reworked large vinyl doll who stands 23" tall. She is dressed in a beautiful full-length gown of white patterned satin brocade over a lace-trimmed powder blue satin underskirt. The sides of her gown opening are trimmed with lace and blue ruffle with delicately hand-sewn golden beads and faux pearls. Her dress is edged with blue braid trim and lace and adorned with small ribbon bows and flowers.

Around what is left of her neck is a white satin ribbon choker with a large pendent and a string of faux pearls with a small heart-shaped ornament. She wears a beautifully styled blonde wig with feathers, flowers, and pearl hair ornaments. She also wears several beaded bracelets on her wrist.

Her face is hand-painted in a porcelain tone with brightly colored lips and small black decorative patches, as was fashionable during the height of her royal days, and her severed head is attached to her hand. Her large eyes are clouded over in a death-stare. The neck stump and above the shoulders are both cut cleanly to resemble the wound inflicted by the guillotine. Blood, spinal column bone, and muscle tissue is visible from both wounds.

This doll does not have bendable parts and was made to be displayed in a standing position.

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Francoise-Thérèse de Choiseul-Stainville - Version 2

Francoise-Thérèse, the Princesse de Monaco, was born a Frenchwoman in 1767. She had the misfortune of being in the country during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and was arrested and promptly condemned to death in 1794.

While awaiting execution she falsely declared herself to be pregnant in order to secure a short reprieve. During this time she cut her own hair and sent the locks along with a letter to her two young daughters. She then announced to her jailers that she was in fact not with child, but had lied in order to arrange for the only legacy she had left for her children (her hair) to be untouched by the executioner.

She was beheaded the following day along with forty-six others on 9 Thermidor, which was the day before Robespierre's Tribunal was overthrown. She was among the last group of people to be sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Francoise-Thérèse is a vinyl doll that stands approx. 10" tall and is dressed in a gorgeous blue-magenta silk gown trimmed with white lace. A satin vine of roses encircles her waist and a wide cord lace trims the top of her bodice. A long matching train runs down the back of her gown.

She carries her cloudy-eyed severed head in her right hand, attached by a strand of faux pearls.. She has a matching headdress that is adorned with colorful feathers.

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Francoise-Thérèse de Choiseul-Stainville - Version 1

Francoise-Thérèse, the Princesse de Monaco, was born a Frenchwoman in 1767. She had the misfortune of being in the country during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, and was arrested and promptly condemned to death in 1794.

While awaiting execution she falsely declared herself to be pregnant in order to secure a short reprieve. During this time she cut her own hair and sent the locks along with a letter to her two young daughters. She then announced to her jailers that she was in fact not with child, but had lied in order to arrange for the only legacy she had left for her children (her hair) to be untouched by the executioner.

She was beheaded the following day along with forty-six others on 9 Thermidor, which was the day before Robespierre's Tribunal was overthrown. She was among the last group of people to be sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Francoise-Thérèse is a reworked vinyl doll that stands approx. 12" tall and is dressed in a pink silk gown trimmed with creamy white lace. Her underskirt is a light blue fabric with playful floral patterns embellished with hand-sewn faux pearls. A soft wire frame under her skirt helps the dress hold its shape and can be bent to suit any pose. More strung acrylic pearls are draped around her waist and on her head. She wears a gold and pearl trimmed shawl around her shoulders.

The Princesse carries her cloudy-eyed severed head in her right hand. The neck stump and above the shoulders are both neatly cut to resemble the wound inflicted by the guillotine. Blood, spinal column bone, and muscle tissue is visible from both wounds.

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Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan (Princess Lamballe) - Version 2

Marie Thérèse was born September 8, 1749 to the House of Savoy. She was married to Louis Alexandre Stanislaus de Bourbon, prince of Lambelle and she became the Princess de Lamballe. Her marriage was cut short by the death of her husband just a year later in 1768. Present in French court life, she became very close friends with Marie Antoinette, who after becoming Queen of France appointed Marie Thérèse as superintendent of the royal household.

Marie Thérèse was very close to the Queen, which brought about her untimely end during the French Revolution. Refusing to take an oath against the monarchy, she became the most famous victim of the September Massacres on Sept. 3, 1790 when she was attacked by a bloodthirsty mob. Beheaded by the crude blades of revolutionaries, it is rumored that she was also dismembered and that the pieces of her body were paraded outside of Marie Antoinette's window. Other records indicate that her headless body was delivered intact and was properly buried.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Marie Thérèse is a vinyl doll standing approx. 10" tall. She has a copper satin underskirt that is layered with rows of deep red lace. Her gown is made with a beautiful orange silk and trimmed with white and cream laces accented with hand-sewn faux pearls.

Her headdress is made with lace, strand faux pearls, and feathers of white and orange-red.

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Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan (Princess Lamballe) - Version 1

Marie Thérèse was born September 8, 1749 to the House of Savoy. She was married to Louis Alexandre Stanislaus de Bourbon, prince of Lambelle and she became the Princess de Lamballe. Her marriage was cut short by the death of her husband just a year later in 1768. Present in French court life, she became very close friends with Marie Antoinette, who after becoming Queen of France appointed Marie Thérèse as superintendent of the royal household.

Marie Thérèse was very close to the Queen, which brought about her untimely end during the French Revolution. Refusing to take an oath against the monarchy, she became the most famous victim of the September Massacres on Sept. 3, 1790 when she was attacked by a bloodthirsty mob. Beheaded by the crude blades of revolutionaries, it is rumored that she was also dismembered and that the pieces of her body were paraded outside of Marie Antoinette's window. Other records indicate that her headless body was delivered intact and was properly buried.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Marie Thérèse is a very large reworked vinyl doll that stands approx. 26" tall. She wears a silky cream underskirt with a purple lace overlay that has hand-sewn acrylic pearls accenting it. The thick plush purple velvet overdress is extravagantly trimmed with lace, cream ribbon, and lots of hand-sewn pearls. Across her shoulders she wears a golden sheer shawl with pearl-trimmed lace edges. A large pearl pendant is attached around what is left of her neck by a purple satin ribbon.

Her lower arms and face are cut and bloodied as a result of her terrible ordeal. The jagged edges of the severed neck show protruding bone and heavy blood flow. Her facial features are hand-painted, and in her disarrayed hair is the tattered remains of a pearled hair ornament. This large doll can be moved into a sitting position.

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Princess Élisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène - Version 2

Also known as Madame Elisabeth, she was the younger sister of King Louis XVI to whom she was very devoted, even refusing to marry so that she could remain with him. During the Revolution, she accompanied the king and his family as they attempted to escape the country and was arrested along with them and brought back to Paris. She remained with Marie Antoinette until the queen was taken to another prison and executed a few months later. The queen’s last letter, penned hours before her death, was addressed to Elisabeth although she never received it.

Seven months after Marie’s death, Elisabeth herself was taken to stand trial before the Tribunal on charges of assisting the king’s flight, providing funds to royalists, and other assorted crimes. The completely outrageous charge of molesting her nephew, the royal Dauphin, was also brought against her. Although the accusation was meant to defame her and inspire hatred in the people's attitude towards her, the public in general believed the charge was false and greatly sympathized with Elisabeth. However she was found guilty of the other charges and faced the guillotine on May 10,1794.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Madame Elisabeth is a vinyl doll that stands approx. 11" tall. She wears a sky blue silk underskirt beneath a colorful peachy-pink silk gown trimmed with wide white lace and floral garland trim. The bodice is also trimmed around the waist and neckline with a ruffled white lace.

Elisabeth's severed head has hand-painted blue eyes and wears her beautiful long chestnut hair gathered up on top of her head and pinned with a headpiece of floral garland and long white feathers.

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Élisabeth Philippine Marie Hélène - Version 1

Also known as Madame Elisabeth, she was the younger sister of King Louis XVI to whom she was very devoted, even refusing to marry so that she could remain with him. During the Revolution, she accompanied the king and his family as they attempted to escape the country and was arrested along with them and brought back to Paris. She remained with Marie Antoinette until the queen was taken to another prison and executed a few months later. The queen’s last letter, penned hours before her death, was addressed to Elisabeth although she never received it.

Seven months after Marie’s death, Elisabeth herself was taken to stand trial before the Tribunal on charges of assisting the king’s flight, providing funds to royalists, and other assorted crimes. The completely outrageous charge of molesting her nephew, the royal Dauphin, was also brought against her. Although the accusation was meant to defame her and inspire hatred in the people's attitude towards her, the public in general believed the charge was false and greatly sympathized with Elisabeth. However she was found guilty of the other charges and faced the guillotine on May 10,1794.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Elisabeth is a reworked vinyl doll that stands approx. 20" tall. She has hand-painted features and beautiful long and curled auburn hair. She wears a gold floral brocade gown with wide lace edging trimmed with spring green ribbon and adorned with hand-sewn acrylic pearls and small satin flowers. Her underskirt is made with a silky lavender satin and trimmed with lace. Around her shoulders she wears a sheer mauve shawl with fancy lace edging and pearl ornaments.

Her severed head is attached to her hand with an acrylic pearl bracelet.. Her clouded eyes peer from beneath her unruly hair. The neck stump and just above the shoulders are both cut cleanly to resemble the wound inflicted by the guillotine. Blood, spinal column bone, and muscle tissue is visible from both wounds.

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Olympe de Gouges

Born Marie Gouze in 1748, she took the name Olympe de Gouges after her husband died and she began to write plays and essays of a socially conscious nature. Her subjects were often very controversial, and in 1977 she wrote an anti-slavery play that went unpublished until the beginning of the French Revolution. She also wrote about women's right to divorce and to have sexual encounters outside of marriage. She embraced the Revolution as a hope to spread the ideas of equality between the sexes, but was soon disappointed to see that men still retained all power and refused to extend it towards female citizens.

In 1791 she became part of "Cercle Social", which was a group working towards equal rights for women. Inspired by the activities of this group, she wrote the first declaration of universal human rights entitled "Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne" ("Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen"). This was followed up with several other writings concerning equality and injustice.

In 1793 she penned "Le trois urnes, ou le salut de la Patrie, par un voyageur aérien" (The three urns, or the health of the country, by an aerial voyager.) where she spoke out against Robespierre and Marat while still supporting the revolution itself. This caused enough of an uproar that it lead to her arrest. Found guilty of anti-Revolutionary conduct, she was sent to the guillotine on November 3, 1793.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Olympe is a reworked vinyl doll that stands approx. 10" tall and is dressed in a blue fabric gown trimmed with cream-colored lace. Her underskirt is a peachy-pink brocade fabric that matches the lace-trimmed shawl she wears on her shoulders. The shawl is adorned with tiny rose ornaments in the front and back.

Olympe carries her cloudy-eyed severed head in her right hand. The neck stump and above the shoulders are both cut to resemble the wound inflicted by the guillotine with the skin drawn back a little from the wound.. Blood, spinal column bone, and muscle tissue is visible.

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Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont

Known in history books simply as Charlotte Corday, this convent-educated woman single-handedly plotted and carried out the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a key member of the Jacobin faction during the French Revolution. Charlotte believed that by eliminating Marat the bloody mass executions in Paris would end.

Under the pretense of supplying names of enemies of the revolution, Charlotte was granted audience with Marat, who usually received visitors while he soaked in his bath on account of his skin disease. After a brief converstaion where Marat confirmed that he planned to have all his opponents guillotined, Charlot produced a kitchen knife from her bodice and stabbed him in the heart. He died almost instantly.

Charlotte made no attempt to conceal her crime and during her trial she insisted that what she did would bring peace to France. She was sentenced to death and bravely met the guillotine on July 17,1793. The Terror continued despite Marat's death, but Charlotte was considered a hero later on after the monarchy was restored.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Charlotte is a reworked vinyl doll that stands 12" tall and has hand-painted features. She wears a simple long gown made of grey suede. Around her shoulders is a pink silk shawl with lace trim, similar to the one she reportedly wore to visit Marat and then subsequently wore to her execution. A single pearl bead button is on the front.

Her head is attached to her hand, severed with a clean cut with bone and muscle showing in both ends.

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Louis Capet (King Louis XVI)

Better known as King Louis XVI. Born August 24, 1754, Louis Capet would grow up to replace his grandfather (Louis XV) on the French throne since his own father had died young. in 1770, at the age of fifteen, he married Marie Antoinette. the marriage remained unconsummated for several years due to a sexual disfunction that Louis suffered from, but eventually that was remedied and they had four children.

At first Louis was well-loved by his people, but over the years the country dropped further and further into debt. In 1789 he ordered the first election of the National Assembly, which was one of the events that begun the Revolution. Although still a popular king, Louis was prone towards bouts of severe depression during which time his queen would assume the responsibility of speaking for the crown. Marie Antoinette was extremely unpopular by the people, and the king's own popularity soon suffered for it.

As food shortages ran rampant through France and hostilities from the people grew, Louis attempted to take his family and escape France in June of 1791. Captured before he could leave the country, he and his family were returned to Paris and put under house arrest until August of 1972 when he was formally arrested by the National Tribunal. Declared as an enemy of the people and stripped of all his titles, the now-citizen Louis Capet was tried and found guilty of high treason in December. In January he was sentenced to death and he was guillotined on January 21, 1793.

ABOUT THE DOLL

Our Louis XVI is a very large doll standing 28" tall. His royal robes are made with a floral tapestry-like pattern and lined in faux fur. A large rhinestone medallion hangs from a golden braided cord around his shoulders. Beneath his robe he is clad in a suit of grey satin with silver organza sleeves and silver ribbons at his knees. He also wears hand-molded grey shoes.

His large severed neck displays a great amount of gory detail, including the severed spinal bone, muscle tissue, esophagus and trachea. He has hand-painted features and his blue eyes are glazed over in a whitened death stare.

This doll is very top-heavy and will require a large and sturdy doll stand for display (not included) or the doll can also be moved into a sitting position. This doll will not stand on his own.

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Marie-Jeanne Bécu (Madam Du Barry) - Version 2

Born illegitimate, Marie-Jeanne was the daughter of a seamstress named Anne Bécu. Her father was suspected to be a local friar who funded her education in a convent. She moved to Paris at the age of fifteen to work as a shop assistant, where she caught the attention of nobleman Jean du Barry. As his mistress, Marie-Jeanne was introduced into high society as a courtesan. Seeing her potential to rise to become the royal mistress of King Louis XV but lacking a respectable title in order to qualify for such a position, she was granted such credentials when her marriage was arranged to Jean's brother, the Count Guillaume du Barry and became Countess du Barry.

While she did serve as the King's courtesan , she did not have the popularity or influence as her predecessor, the famous Madame de Pompadour. Her relationship with Marie Antoinette (then the dauphine of France) was not good, and she refused to speak of Madame du Barry. Upon King Louis XV's death in 1774, she was banished from court.

In 1792 she was arrested by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris and charged with treason. Found guilty of counter-revolutionary activities, she faced the scaffold on Dec. 8, 1793. Reportedly she did not die with dignity, but rather screamed and pleaded for mercy from the jeering crowd and had to be dragged to the guillotine.

ABOUT THE DOLL

This mini-sized doll stands only 6" tall. She is capable of standing all by herself without the use of a doll stand.

She is dressed in a gown made with lavender silk and white lace with a purple rhinestone on the center of the bodice. Her hair is disheveled from her ordeal, and she wears a headpiece made with soft white feathers. Her deep-set eyes have been painted to express the wildness of her last moments in life.

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Marie-Jeanne Bécu (Madam Du Barry) - Version 1

Born illegitimate, Marie-Jeanne was the daughter of a seamstress named Anne Bécu. Her father was suspected to be a local friar who funded her education in a convent. She moved to Paris at the age of fifteen to work as a shop assistant, where she caught the attention of nobleman Jean du Barry. As his mistress, Marie-Jeanne was introduced into high society as a courtesan. Seeing her potential to rise to become the royal mistress of King Louis XV but lacking a respectable title in order to qualify for such a position, she was granted such credentials when her marriage was arranged to Jean's brother, the Count Guillaume du Barry and became Countess du Barry.

While she did serve as the King's courtesan , she did not have the popularity or influence as her predecessor, the famous Madame de Pompadour. Her relationship with Marie Antoinette (then the dauphine of France) was not good, and she refused to speak of Madame du Barry. Upon King Louis XV's death in 1774, she was banished from court.

In 1792 she was arrested by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris and charged with treason. Found guilty of counter-revolutionary activities, she faced the scaffold on Dec. 8, 1793. Reportedly she did not die with dignity, but rather screamed and pleaded for mercy from the jeering crowd and had to be dragged to the guillotine.

ABOUT THE DOLL

The Madame du Barry is a reworked vinyl doll standing 10" tall with hand-painted features. She wears a creamy satin underskirt with a double-row of lace trim under a dress of purple floral brocade. Wide lace and tiny roses adorn her dress. She wears a wide lace shawl around her headless shoulders.

She carries her frosted blonde head in her hand. Her hair is adorned with small roses and white feathers. Her neck is severed with a clean cut with bone and muscle showing in both ends.

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Marie Antoinette - Version 4

MARIE ANTOINETTE

Born in 1755, Marie would grow up to become a symbol of extreme extravagance. The daughter of the Empress of Austria, Marie was married at age fifteen to the French dauphin Louis XVI. In 1774 she became Queen of France when her husband inherited the throne.

To ease the boredom of French royal life and the marital neglect she suffered, Marie surrounded herself with young friends and dove into a life of pleasure, hosting lavish parties and theatrical events and wearing outrageously expensive gowns and hairstyles. Scandals surrounded her activities, and her wild spending was ruinous as the common people fell deeper and deeper into financial despair.

Revolution soon followed and the royal court was overthrown. Both Marie and her husband were tried for crimes against their country. Although tried separately and months apart, they were both were found guilty and sentenced to death. On October 16, 1793 the former Queen was hauled alone in a dilapidated cart to the scaffold in Paris where she was beheaded by the guillotine.

ABOUT THE DOLL

The vinyl doll itself is approx. 10" tall with her severed head held in her hand fastened by a faux pearl bracelet.

Marie's lavish springtime gown is made of sky blue silk trimmed with wide white lace on the bodice. The overdress is made from a shimmering spring green organza over a creamy satin underskirt. The open panels of her dress are trimmed with ruffled lace and faux pearls. A cluster of silk flowers adorns the waist.

Her face is hand-painted in a porcelain tone with brightly colored lips, as was fashionable during the height of her royal days, and her severed head wears a lavender-painted hat decorated with faux pearls and feathers. Her clouded eyes peer from beneath thinly painted eyebrows. The neck stump and above the shoulders are both cut cleanly to resemble the wound inflicted by the guillotine.

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