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	Louveciennes from "The Chateaux of France"
		The irony is that the structure was commissioned by none other than the Comtesse du Barry, Louis XV's last mistress and the archsymbol of all that contemporaries considered effete and self indulgent in France's ancien regime.
		Mme du Barry had none of the intellectual ambition of her predecessor at court, the Marquise de Pompadour, but she was a lady of fashion and eagerly followed the new trend just as soon as it set in.
		Paradoxically - and characteristically - Mme Dubarry called it a "folly." Still, when it came to the exterior decor, she rejected the true follies - and gorgeous ones at that - painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and ordered a whole new cycle of murals from Joseph-Marie Vien.
	world.std.com /~hmfh/dubarry3.htm (733 words)

	Anime-Myth.com v. With You
		Du Barry was indeed born a commoner in the village of Vaucouleurs as Marie Jeanne Becu.
		But when Marie did find out she indeed refused to speak to du Barry and vowed to do what was correct, and one incident after another began a dispute between the women.
		Du Barry kept by his side as long as she could, but the King takes Communion and Confession and tells du Barry not to return to him.
	www.anime-myth.com /rofv_history.html (3116 words)

	ROBERT DARNTON \| An Early Information Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris \| The American Historical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mairobert's biography of du Barry is really a scrapbook of these news items strung together along a narrative line, which takes the heroine from her obscure birth as the daughter of a cook and a wandering friar to a star role in a Parisian whorehouse and finally the royal bed.
		Du Barry sleeps her way to the top, using tricks she picked up in the whorehouse to revive the exhausted libido of the old king and thus to dominate the kingdom.
		In each case, as the story went, du Barry filled the king with drink, dragged him to bed, and got him to sign any edict that had been prepared for her by her evil counselors.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html (10850 words)

	Madame du Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madame du Barry, a portrait by du Barry's confidante, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.
		Marie- Jeanne, Madame Du Barry was born Jeanne Bécu at Vaucouleurs, Lorraine, the illegitimate daughter of Anne Becu, who was variously reported as a seamstress or a cook.
		Jean du Barry, however, saw her as a means of influence with Louis XV, who became aware of her in 1768.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_du_Barry (647 words)

	Mme du Barry - MmeduBarry
		Madame du Barry (August 19, 1743 - December 8, 1793) was a courtesan who became the mistress of Louis XV of France.
		Madame du Barry was born Marie-Jeanne Bécu at Vaucouleurs, Lorraine, France.
		She was born to poor parents, but relationships with rich men increased her social standing, and in 1769 she became the mistress of Louis XV of France, whose best known mistress Madame de Pompadour had died a few years earlier.
	www.kopete.org /Mme-du-Barry.html (196 words)

	Tureen and Plates from the Madame du Barry Service, Sèvres Soft Paste Porcelain, 1771 CE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tureen and Plates from the Madame du Barry Service, Sèvres Soft Paste Porcelain, 1771 CE Clearly based on the same set of molds used to create the Bedford service, these pieces are from the Sèvres service of Madame du Barry.
		On the death of Louis XV (May 1774) and the accession of Louis XVI, Madame du Barry was banished to a nunnery; from 1776 until the outbreak of the Revolution she lived on her estates with the Duke de Brissac.
		du Barry's initials, DB, form the center design on the plates, and this convention of using the initials of the owner of the service was often used by Sèvres.
	www.glendale.edu /ceramics/dubarryservice.html (345 words)

	Illustrious People
		Mme du Châtelet was passionately drawn to the sciences and metaphysics and influenced Voltaire's work in that direction.
		Because of a lawsuit, he followed Mme du Châtelet to Brussels in May 1739, and thereafter they were constantly on the move between Belgium, Cirey, and Paris.
		When Mme du Châtelet lost large sums at the Queen's gaming table, he said to her in English: "You are playing with card-sharpers"; the phrase was understood, and he was forced to go into hiding at the country mansion as the guest of the Duchesse du Maine in 1747.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /database/glossary/illustr2/voltaire.html (4354 words)

	Vigee Le Brun - Portraits of Mme Du Barry
		Eugénie Tripier Lefranc was born in Paris in 1803 or 1805 and died in Paris in 1872.
		In 1774 Louis XV died and Jeanne du Barry was confined in the convent of Pont-Aux-Dames for two years.
		Jeanne du Barry was guillotined on 8 December 1793.
	www.batguano.com /dubarry.html (695 words)

	Chapter IV
		Du Barry wore only a dressing-robe of cotton cambric or white muslin, and every day, whatever the weather might be, she walked in her park, or outside of it, without ever incurring disastrous consequences, so sturdy had her health become through her life in the country.
		Du Barry went to England, before the Terror, to get back her stolen diamonds, which, in fact, she recovered there, the English received her very well.
		Du Barry was tried and condemned to death by the Revolutionary tribunal at the end of 1793.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/lebrun/memoirs/memoirs-IV.html (4797 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She arrives in Versailles at the age of fourteen, a Dresden figurine of a girl, slender and high-spirited, with china-blue eyes and the most ethereal skin the French court has seen all century.
		du Barry, who had the support of some of the country's mightiest nobles; and the treacherous Comte de Provence, the Dauphin's younger brother, who was next in line to the throne as long as the Dauphin remained without a male heir.
		Sure enough, shortly after Louis XVI's coronation the malicious traits ascribed to du Barry were readily transferred to Marie-Antoinette; she was accused of wantonness, venality, and profligacy, with the added bonus that she was said to have lesbian relations with her favorite, Comtesse de Polignac.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/archive/021007fr_archive01 (2843 words)

	Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1929)
		Maybe Du Barry was a girl who meant "no" when she said "yes," but this film would hardly make customers believe it.
		Doing a Du Barry that's familiar to adults of any generation almost since the woman lived is a task for any actress.
		That Du Barry must have been subtley alluring and not so physically prominent seemingly never got to the makers.
	www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/NT/oldreviews/dubarry.htm (778 words)

	The Palace Of Versailles
		The king wishes to go to Versailles; but it seems that God does not, to judge from the difficulty of getting the buildings ready for occupation and the dreadful mortality of the workmen who are carried away every night in waggons filled with the dead.
		Instead, all the water of the pools and the snow falling on the plain between Rambouillet and Versailles was brought to the latter by a series of subterranean watercourses.
		Versailles was chiefly remarkable as being the scene of the extravagance of Mme, de Pompdour and the turpitude of Mme.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/article1504.shtml (1248 words)

	Vigee Le Brun - Portraits of Mme Du Barry
		Secondo le sue Memoirs Vigée Le Brun dipinse tre ritratti di Mme du Barry: 1781 Contessa du Barry (con cappello di paglia), 1787 Mme.du Barry (figura intera con corona di fiori in mano), 1789 Mme.du Barry.
		du Barry) naciû en Vaucoleurs, una pequena aldea de la Lorena conocida desde el siglo XV gracias a las heroicas gestas de Juana de Arco.
		En 1763 conociû al Conde du Barry, hombre de costumbres libertinas y disipadas.
	www.batguano.com /dubarryIT.html (900 words)

	People and Places of The French Revolution - Madame du Barry
		Then, to save appearances and permit the youn mistress to remain at court, she is married to Guillaume Du Barri, own brother to the roue, and given the title of countess.
		Madame Du Barri now installs herself at the Palace of Versailles; but etiquette holds her aloof there until April 2, 1769, the day when the King succeeds in presenting her to his family and the court.
		Madame Du Barri is not desirous in any regard of the effective power which Madame de Pompadour had exercised in the affairs of France.
	regencycafe.tripod.com /madamedubarry.html (1540 words)

	Vigée Le Brun Master Painting List
		His sister, Charlotte du Cluzel, was married (in 1754) to Joseph Louis Le Pelletier de Morfontaine, who commissioned a study of a head from VLB in 1781, and a cupid in 1789.
		She was the sister of Mme de Bonneuil, who was painted by VLB in 1773, and also a sister of Mme Testart, who was probably also painted in 1773.
		She was the daughter of Mme Bonneuil, who was painted by VLB in 1773, and whom VLB had called the prettiest lady in Paris.
	hometown.aol.com /SteinCS (15163 words)

	Alexandre Dumas père
		It was under the influence of the Shakespeare plays produced in Paris by Charles Kemble, Harriet Smithson (afterwards Mme.
		The Byronic hero Antony was a portrait of himself in his relations with Mme.
		But his powers were beginning to fail, and in spite of the 1200 volumes which he told Napoleon he had written, he was at the mercy of his creditors, and of the succession of theatrical ladies who tyrannized over him and feared nothing except the occasional visits of Dumas fils.
	www.nndb.com /people/191/000025116 (2444 words)

	The Bather by Allegrain - Size as Original
		It was an eighteenth century French ideal; small of head and delicate in body with a poetic charm and harmonious elegance.
		The Bather was sculpted in 1767 for Mme.
		Du Barry and placed in the gardens of Louvecienne.
	www.murrayco.com /eleganza/318A-Bathe.html (103 words)

	26. Twilight (1901). Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams
		Of all branches of education, the science of gauging people and events by their relative importance defies study most insolently.
		For three or four generations, society has united in withering with contempt and opprobrium the shameless futility of Mme.
		The same thing might be said, in a different sense, of Voltaire; while, as every one knows, the money-value of any hand-stroke of Watteau or Hogarth, Nattier or Sir Joshua, is out of all proportion to the importance of the men.
	www.bartleby.com /159/26.html (2925 words)

	Character--Madame du Barry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Madame du Barry did not accompany Louis XV when he was in serious ill like Episode 9—"The Sun Sets, The Sun Rise".
		After Louis XV's death, Mme du Barry was sent to Abbey of Pont aux-Dames under restriction to see or write to anyone.
		She was accused of conspiring against the French Republic and having favored the success of the arms of the enemies in its territory by procuring for them exorbitant sums in her journeys to England, where she herself emigrated.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Arc/8639/duBarry.html (424 words)

	The Lover Crowned - Jean-Honore Fragonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1771, Fragonard was commissioned to paint a series of panels for the chateau at Louveciennes, the "love nest" of Madame du Barry, the beautiful mistress of Louis XV.
		Its title is "The Lover Crowned," and while it may describe only the delicate pose which the couple strike for their friend to sketch, the obvious erotic implications are that the young man has received more than just a crown.
		These beautiful pictures, however, were returned by Mme du Barry and it seems that artistic taste was already turning against Fragonard's lighthearted style.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/anc_frag_lovercr.html (211 words)

	POVAG: Fragonard, Jean-Honoré : Guide to Images of Famous Works Of Art by Romantic French Painter Jean-Honore ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He stopped exhibiting at the Salon in 1767 and almost all his work was done for private patrons.
		Among them was Mme du Barry, Louis XV's most beautiful mistress, for whom he painted the works that are often regarded as his masterpieces -- the four canvases representing The Progress of Love (Frick Collection, New York, 1771-73).
		These, however, were returned by Mme du Barry and it seems that taste was already turning against Fragonard's lighthearted style.
	www.palettesofvision.com /Reproductions/jean-honore_fragonard (433 words)

	Louveciennes
		It is also interesting to note that Mme Du Barry, pushing the frontiers of furniture as well as architecture and art, has Louis XV seated in a Louis XVI style chair.
		Mme Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun, a court painter, friend and confidante of Mme.
		Du Barry's artistic commissions for her pavillon were four paintings by Fragonard.
	world.std.com /~hmfh/louvec.htm (968 words)

	AHA Information: Robert Darnton Presidential Address (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her position as maîtresse en titre, a quasi-official role designated by formal presentation at court, had not yet solidified to the point where she could consider herself invulnerable to gossip.
		For that is where the great affairs of state were decided—the fall of Choiseul, the partition of Poland, the destruction of France's judicial system by the chancellor Maupeou, everything that would have warranted a banner headline, if there had been headlines, or newspapers with news.
		Four editions of Les amours de Zeokinizul, roi des Kofirans: Ouvrage traduit de l'Arabe du voyageur Krinelbol (Amsterdam, 1747, 1747, 1748, and 1770) can be consulted in the BNF, Lb38.554.A-D. All but the first have elaborate keys, usually inserted into the binding from a separate copy, sometimes with manuscript notes.
	www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/rdarnton.htm (12560 words)

	Du Barry Was A Lady 2001
		Louise Gold starred as May Daly/Mme Du Barry, for the second time in a Lost Musicals production of Du Barry Was A Lady, at Her Majesty’s Theatre, on 18
		Du Barry Was A Lady at The Barbican, as well as their Barbican productions of:
		Louise Gold and James Vaughan are long standing Lost Musicals performers, having previously appeared in: One Touch Of Venus (1992 Production), Du Barry Was A Lady (1993 Production), Of Thee I Sing (where their performances were a complete contrast to those in this show), Panama Hattie, and were perhaps best teamed in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
	www.qsulis.demon.co.uk /Website_Louise_Gold/Dubarry_Was_A_Lady_2001.htm (1095 words)

	The Old Foodie: In Memory of a Mistress. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The beautiful Jean Becu, Comtesse Du Barry was guillotined on this day in 1793, in her fiftieth year.
		For example there is “Eggs Du Barry” (hard-boiled eggs with anchovy, chives, and white sauce), and “Fricasee of Fowls à la Dubarry” which we featured in a previous story.
		On the subject of royal mistresses, Mme Fontanges, a mistress of Louis XIV also has a dish named in her honour.
	theoldfoodie.blogspot.com /2006/12/in-memory-of-mistress.html (802 words)

	AllRefer.com - Choiseul, Etienne FranCois, duc de (French History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Choiseul, Etienne FranCois, duc de[Atyen´ frANswA´ dUk du shwAzOl´] Pronunciation Key, 1719–85, French statesman.
		After successful service in the army he entered the diplomatic service and gained support from Mme de Pompadour.
		A clique surrounding King Louis XV's mistress Mme Du Barry caused his exile from court (1770).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ChoiseulE.html (303 words)

	Guide and Travel Facts: Versailles, France
		Mme de Maintenon (nanny to Louis' and Mme de Montespan's children, nicknamed 'Votre Solidité,' secretly married Louis after the death of Marie-Thérèse)
		A point of interest, especially for groups from Maine: Mme de Montespan was the mother of the Duc de Maine who was granted the governorship over those territories of French Canada, now US territory, comprising the State of Maine.) After she fell out of favour, the new mistress Mme de Maintenon took up residence here.
		She never lived to see it completed, and it was subsequently occupied by Mme du Barry, Louis' next mistress.
	www.passports.com /trips/cityfact/cityfact.asp?city=Versailles (2822 words)

	Document Signed ("La Comtesse du barry"), ordering payment of 1300 livres to M. Labbé, a timber merchant at ...
		Document Signed ("La Comtesse du barry"), ordering payment of 1300 livres to M. Labbé, a timber merchant at Versailles.
		du Barry's extravagance depleted the coffers of state to such an extent that the financial difficulties of Louis XVI's reign became inevitable, hastening the Revolution.
		After Louis XV's death in 1775, she was exiled from Court, and it was only the intercession of Marie Antoinette, about whom the Comtesse had never been complimentary, which brought her the Chateau at Luciennes.
	www.maggs.com /title/AU3436.asp (206 words)

	Madame Du Barry \| MTV MOVIES
		This upteenth film version of the life of royal courtesan Madame Du Barry stars Martine Carol in the title role.
		Du Barry as his mistress, indulging her every whim.
		Banished from the court of Versailles by Marie Antoinette, Du Barry ultimately falls victim to the French Revolution, but she has fun while she lasts.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/66042/moviemain.jhtml (259 words)

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