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
![Madame du Barry: From Prostitute to King Louis XV's Last Mistress, and Died as Famous Victim of the French Revolution | Feature Series | THE VALUE | Art News Madame du Barry: From Prostitute to King Louis XV's Last Mistress, and Died as Famous Victim of the French Revolution | Feature Series | THE VALUE | Art News](https://assets.thevalue.com/1d435e5d669ce560a9a32c0ccb63086fb2ea66a4/mobile/05638fd8117734ab11801b0129bc5dcf0a765469.jpg?1555574685)
Madame du Barry: From Prostitute to King Louis XV's Last Mistress, and Died as Famous Victim of the French Revolution | Feature Series | THE VALUE | Art News
![From street seller to the royal fold: King Louis XV's mistress was the ultimate social climber | Tatler From street seller to the royal fold: King Louis XV's mistress was the ultimate social climber | Tatler](https://media.tatler.com/photos/6357c2b72c8e2b81aef8d526/1:1/w_1279,h_1279,c_limit/Barry_251022_M6CR39.jpg)
From street seller to the royal fold: King Louis XV's mistress was the ultimate social climber | Tatler
![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)