In connection with the issue of an ATS 1000 gold coin, site offers a press release, description of the coin, biography of the unfortunate queen, and a chronology of her life.

Biography of the Queen of France.

Biographical entry on the eighteenth-century queen.

Cecil Adams tackles two theories about the infamous remark.

Substantial biographical entry on the Queen of France, from the 1911 edition. Some scanner errors.

Excerpt from a letter from Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa.

Resources on the life and times of Marie Antoinette including biography, image gallery, and reviewed links. Sympathetic toward the doomed queen.

Thirty paintings and drawings of the queen, most by Vigée Le Brun.

Portrait, biographical profile, links.

Illustrated profile of the Austrian princess who became Queen of France. At the web site of the Château de Versailles.

Biography of the queen.