A sacred chick, the Meusienne Comtesse du Barry!

After the death of King Louis XV, her lover, the Comtesse du Barry, is caught between two fires: the court of Louis XVI does not forgive her his relations with Louis XV and the hunt; and fifteen years later, it is the Revolutionaries who do not forgive him his royal somersaults. Jeanne Bécu alias Comtesse du Barry, was beheaded in 1793 under the Terror. On the scaffold, she will have these famous words (she would have had these words): “One more moment, Monsieur the executioner”