Yolande de Polastron Duchesse de Polignac

Standard Name: Polignac, Yolande de Polastron,,, Duchesse de

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Friends, Associates Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana did not restrict herself to this circle. She made some eminent older friends in the world of literature and culture, like Mary Delany , Elizabeth Montagu , and Samuel Johnson . From 1777 she...

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17 December 1779: It was disapprovingly noted what immense...

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17 December 1779

It was disapprovingly noted what immense sums of public money Marie-Antoinette was paying to her personal friend the comtesse de Polignac .
Roulston, Christine. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1998–1989, pp. 215-31.
225 and n45

16 October 1793: Marie-Antoinette was guillotined....

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16 October 1793

Marie-Antoinette was guillotined.
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
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Hunt, Lynn. “The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution”. The French Revolution in Social and Political Perspective, edited by Peter, 1949 - Jones, Arnold, 1996, pp. 268-84.
268-78

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