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Madame du Barry

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Madame du Barry
Coontess o Barry
Madame du Barry bi Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
Full name
Marie Jeanne Bécu
Born19 August 1743
Vaucouleurs, Lorraine, Fraunce
Dee'd8 December 1793 (aged 50)
Executit in Paris, Fraunce
Spoose(s)Guillaume du Barry, Coont o Barry
Issue
none
FaitherAnne Bécu
MitherJean Baptiste Gormand

Jeanne Bécu, Coontess o Barry (19 August 1743 - 8 December 1793) wis the last mistress o Keeng Louis XV. She wis ane o the victims o the "Reign of Terror" o the French Revolution when she wis guillotined in Paris in 1793 having been banished frae The French Ryal court at Versailles bi the young Louis XVI (probably at he influence o Queen Marie Antoinette.

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