Madame Guillotine
Kill them all if they won't eat cake.
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A beautiful portrait painted in 1775 by Jacques Wilbaut of the Duc de Choiseul with his mistress, the Comtesse de Brionne and best friend, Abbé Barthélmy, enjoying each other’s company in one of Choiseul’s beautiful salons in his château at Chanteloup.
The Duc, once such a favourite of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour had failed to secure the good wishes of La Pompadour’s successor in the King’s bed and thanks to a falling out with Madame du Barry, he found himself banished from court and Paris in 1770 and exiled to his country estate in the Touraine. His last great diplomatic action was to mastermind the marriage of the Dauphin Louis and Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, which took place amidst great pomp in May of that year.
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