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- In 1792, one of her slaves who had joined a group of Jacobins, denounced her to the Committee. Jeanne Bécu, or Madame du Barry, was arrested and executed by guillotine in December 1793.
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Based largely on Zamor's testimony, Madame du Barry was suspected of financially assisting émigrés who had fled the revolution, and she was arrested in 1793. When the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris accused her of treason and condemned her to death, she vainly attempted to save herself by revealing the location of the gemstones she had hidden.
The diamond necklace was commissioned by Louis XV of France for his mistress, Madame du Barry. At the death of the King, the necklace was unpaid for, which almost bankrupted the jewellers and then led to various unsuccessful schemes to secure a sale to Queen Marie Antoinette.
Dec 8, 2008 · On this date in 1793, Madame du Barry — shrieking pitiably in terror — was guillotined in Paris. Versaille costume dramas have made great hay with the courtesan who became the mistress of Louis XV, and her catty court rivalry with Marie Antoinette.
Both were arrested in August 1785, Rohan as he was about to conduct mass at Versailles. They were tried before the Paris parlement the following spring. The trial caused a sensation in the capital, with its chain of lies, forgeries, secret letters, prostitutes, night-time meetings and Rohan’s deluded love for the queen – not to mention the ...
Mar 18, 2022 · The affair of the diamond necklace (1784-86) was a plot masterminded by Jeanne de la Motte to steal a diamond necklace probably originally intended for Louis XV's mistress Madame Du Barry.
- Marie Antoinette was innocent of any involvement in the plot, but the scandal ruined her already damaged reputation.
- She may have refused to buy the necklace because it was originally intended for Louis XV's mistress Madame Du Barry, her rival, or may just have fo...
- Containing 647 brilliants and weighing 2,800 carats, the necklace was priced at around 2 million livres.
Jul 12, 2024 · The necklace was the property of the Parisian firm of jewelers Boehmer and Bassenge, who had tried unsuccessfully to sell it, first to Louis XV as a present for his mistress Madame du Barry and later to Louis XVI for the queen.
Oct 22, 2019 · Louis XV died before the necklace could be completed, and his successor, King Louis XVI, had Madame du Barry banished from the royal court. Boehmer and Bassange now found themselves the owners of one outlandishly expensive piece of jewelry.
