Marie Antoinette
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~ queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)
Marie Grosholtz
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~ French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
Marie Jeanne Becu
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~ courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
Marie Henri Beyle
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~ French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842)
Marie Curie
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~ French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)