A queen, a guillotine, and a mailbox: Marie Antoinette still gets letters, even yours

Celebrating the last Queen of France this year, the Château de Fontainebleau has already received 4,000 letters as part of their “Write to Marie-Antoinette” initiative, showing she is a timeless icon “embedded in our collective imagination,” even almost 240 years after.

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