Madame du Barry
French noblewoman by marriage (1743–1793), last mistress of Louis XV (from 1768 to 1774)
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FranceThe 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.
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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 g…
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