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Du Barry

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Du Bar·ry  (d br, dy-, dü bä-r), Comtesse. Title of Marie Jeanne Bécu. 1743-1793.
French courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV. She was sentenced to be guillotined for crimes against the state by a Revolutionary tribunal.
du Barry [djuː ˈbærɪ (French) dy bari]
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(Biographies / du Barry, Comtesse (?1743-1793) F, French, MISC: mistress) Comtesse (kɔ̃tɛs), original name Marie Jeanne Bécu. ?1743-93, mistress of Louis XV, guillotined in the French Revolution
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Noun1.Du BarryDu Barry - courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)
Comtesse Du Barry, Marie Jeanne Becu


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