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

Euronews · Jun 14, 2026, 4:31 PM · Also reported by 1 other source

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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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