# Madame du Barry

> The last official mistress of Louis XV, plucked from the demimonde and married off in haste to meet court protocol — then beheaded thirty years later when the Revolution came for anyone who'd lived too well under the old crown.

*French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/madame-du-barry

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1743-08-19
- **Died:** 1793-12-08
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Jeanne Bécu was born in 1743 to circumstances humble enough that when the king wanted her in 1768, his fixers had to forge a birth certificate and rush her into marriage with Comte Guillaume du Barry just to make her presentable at Versailles. Her past as a courtesan made her arrival a scandal; Marie Antoinette refused to acknowledge her existence until New Year's Day 1772, when the young queen's single bland remark — "There are many people at Versailles today" — was considered enough to ease the freeze. She reigned as maîtresse-en-titre until Louis XV's death, then lived quietly through the gathering storm. In the Terror, a servant named Zamor accused her of helping émigrés escape, and on 8 December 1793 she went to the guillotine. The jewels she'd smuggled to London were auctioned two years later.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 60.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.2 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 26.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 12.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Business Professionals, #Singer / Musician, #Opera, #France, #Europe, #Early Modern Era

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230677)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Madame%20du%20Barry)
- [Мары Жанна Дзюбары](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%94%D0%B7%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B)
- [Мадам Дю Бари](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%94%D1%8E_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8)
- [Marie-Jeanne du Barry](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_du_Barry)
- [Дюбарри, Мари Жанна](https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0)
- [Madame du Barry](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Жанна Дюбарри](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%94%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8)
- [Madame du Barry](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Marie-Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_B%C3%A9cu%2C_comtesse_du_Barry)
- [Μαντάμ ντυ Μπαρί](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AC%CE%BC_%CE%BD%CF%84%CF%85_%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF)
- [Madame du Barry](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Madame du Barry](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Madame du Barry](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Madame du Barry](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [مادام دو باری](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C)
- [Madame du Barry](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Madame du Barry](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [מאדאם דו בארי](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%93%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%93%D7%95_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99)
- [Madame du Barry](https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Jeanne du Barry](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_du_Barry)
- [Մարի Ժաննա Դյուբարի](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB_%D4%BA%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D4%B4%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A2%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB)
- [Madame du Barry](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Marie-Jeanne Bécu, contessa du Barry](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_B%C3%A9cu%2C_contessa_du_Barry)
- [Wikiquote](https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_Dubarryov%C3%A1)
- [Wikiquote](https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_du_Barry)
- [Wikiquote](https://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%93%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%93%D7%95_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99)
- [Wikiquote](https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_B%C3%A9cu%2C_contessa_du_Barry)
- [Wikiquote](https://ms.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madame_Du_Barry)

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