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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • French courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV. She was guillotined after being found guilty of crimes against the state by a Revolutionary tribunal.

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  • noun courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

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  • For a delicate infant, lentil powder, better known as Du Barry's

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  • "If they had only called that picture 'Du Barry' instead of

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  • Then he started on that extravagant period of spectacular drama, which gave to the stage such memorable pictures as "Du Barry," with Mrs. Carter, and "The

    The Return of Peter Grimm David Belasco 1892

  • But Du Barry, who fancied herself an authority on matters of taste, didn't like Fragonard's efforts and returned them to the artist.

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  • And Mr. Bailey accounts for Du Barry's rejection of the panels.

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  • He was probably chosen not by Du Barry but by the architect, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, as just one of the bevy of highly skilled craftsmen wood sculptors, bronze casters, gilders needed to realize the luxurious interiors.

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  • There Du Barry's rejects found a new setting in the artist's cousin's house, the Villa Maubert, and Fragonard painted 10 additional panels to adapt the original cycle to the villa: four over-doors of chubby cupids, four narrow decorative strips with hollyhocks, and two large paintings, "Love Triumphant" and "The Reverie."

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  • Du Barry was arrested at Louveciennes in 1793 and shortly afterward sent to the guillotine.

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  • Hochkirchen; I was the cousin of Madame Du Barry, the French

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  • Boehmer, the jeweller, first received the order for that famous necklace, which subsequently produced such dreadful consequences, and which was originally meant as a kingly present to the intended Queen, though afterwards destined for Du Barry, had not the King died before the completion of the bargain for it.

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