Random History of the Day - December 8, 1793: Madame du Barry, the last official mistress of King Louis XV of France, was executed by guillotine in Paris at approximately 50 years
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Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty (Tauris Parke Paperbacks): 9781850437536: Haslip, Joan: Books - Amazon.com
![and engraver Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet | Portrait of Madame du Barry, after Drouais | The Metropolitan Museum of Art and engraver Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet | Portrait of Madame du Barry, after Drouais | The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/original/DP874171.jpg)
and engraver Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet | Portrait of Madame du Barry, after Drouais | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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