# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/madame-du-barry
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:54:32.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/madame-du-barry"
name: "Madame du Barry"
slug: "madame-du-barry"
description: "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."
tagline: "French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89lisabeth_Vig%C3%A9e-Lebrun_-_Portrait_of_Madame_Du_Barry.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1743-08-19"
deathDate: "1793-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.22
  momentum:             1.23
  historical:           26.889952
  currentAttention:     12.5
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "France"
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  - name: "Europe"
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  - name: "Early Modern Era"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.