Queen of France, consort of Louis XVI whom she married in 1770; she was convicted of treason and guillotined during the French Revolution.

REFERENCES TO Queen Marie-Antoinette:

Frederick Foster to Lady Melbourne, [November 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921)

Samuel Rogers to Richard Sharp, 8 September 1814 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)

Sydney Smith to John Allen, 16 July 1818 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 25 November 1834 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)