Nostalgia has replaced hatred.
A little over two centuries after her execution, Marie-Antoinette saw her memory rehabilitated.
“All women have been humiliated through her,”
Madame de Staël once wrote.
Sofia Coppola and
Farewell to the Queen,
by Chantal Thomas, had to go through it.
The queen had to die so that with her - then with her son - the monarchy would die.
After being imprisoned in the Temple, then in the Conciergerie, she ended up guillotined in Paris on October 16, 1793. Like so many others.
Her name also remained permanently attached to that of Abraham-Louis Breguet, the genius watchmaker that quickly became that of kings and queens, of whom she was one of the first unconditional.
Breguet will produce the perpetual repeating and calendar watch no. 2 10/82 for her.
A purchase that will contribute to making the young Parisian watchmaker famous.
"It's completely true that, through her purchases, she launched Breguet's career, it's obvious,
believes Emmanuel Breguet...
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