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Royalty.nu: Marie Antoinette  - http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html  Biography of the queen.  Catholic Encyclopedia: Marie Antoinette  - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09665a.htm  Biography of the Queen of France.  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France  - http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/antoinette.html  Portrait, biographical profile, links.  Marie Antoinette Portraits  - http://www.batguano.com/VigeeMAgallery.html  Thirty paintings and drawings of the queen, most by Vigée Le Brun.  Encyclopædia Britannica: Marie Antoinette  - http://90.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MA/MARIE_ANTOINETTE.htm  Substantial biographical entry on the Queen of France, from the 1911 edition. Some scanner errors.  Marie-Antoinette  - http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/240_Marie-Antoinette.php  Illustrated profile of the Austrian princess who became Queen of France. At the web site of the Château de Versailles.  Did Marie Antoinette really say, "Let them eat cake"?  - http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_334.html  Cecil Adams tackles two theories about the infamous remark.  Letter to Her Mother, 1773  - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1773marieantonette.html  Excerpt from a letter from Marie Antoinette to Maria Theresa.  Austrian Mint: Marie Antoinette  - http://www.austrian-mint.com/e/marant.html  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.  Columbia Encyclopedia: Marie Antoinette  - http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/MarieAnt.html  Biographical entry on the eighteenth-century queen.  Marie Antoinette Online  - http://www.marie-antoinette.org  Resources on the life and times of Marie Antoinette including biography, image gallery, and reviewed links. Sympathetic toward the doomed queen.