QUIZ CHALLENGE: 1 The emperor penguin; 2 Crystal Palace; 3 Purple Heart; 4
Madame du Barry; 5 Sirius.
QUIZ OF THE DAY: 1 The emperor penguin; 2 Crystal Palace; 3 Purple Heart; 4
Madame du Barry; 5 Sirius; 6 The Big Bopper; 7 A royal flush; 8 Death Of A Salesman; 9 Clarice Starling; 10 The albatross.
During the succeeding reign of Louis XV,
Madame du Barry complained about the noise it made.
ANSWERS: 1 The emperor penguin; 2 Crystal Palace; 3 Purple Heart; 4
Madame du Barry; 5 Sirius; 6 The Big Bopper; 7 A royal flush; 8 Death Of A Salesman; 9
Arriving in the court of Louis XV (Rip Torn), whose dalliances with mistress
Madame Du Barry (Asia Argento) are the scandal du jour, Marie nervously ingratiates herself to her husband, the Dauphin, Louis Auguste (Jason Schwartzman), who will ascend the throne upon the death of his father.
Arriving in the court of Louis XV (Torn), whose dalliances with mistress
Madame Du Barry (Argento) are the scandal du jour, Marie nervously ingratiates herself to her husband, the Dauphin, Louis Auguste (Schwartzman), who will ascend the throne upon the death of his father.
Also from Tauris Parke Paperbacks we have a reprint of Joan Haslip's 1991 biography,
Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty ([pounds sterling]9.99), the rags to riches story of Louis XV's last mistress en titre.
Courtesans may well have come from humble beginnings (
Madame du Barry started life as a Paris milliner before she became a king's mistress).