I just saw the movie Marie Antionette, and thought I would repost my blog entry about her....

November 2- the birthday of Marie Antionette, who was born in 1755.  She became the Queen of France.  Unfortunately, she was Queen during the birth of Democracy in France, and during their revolution.  She was accused of treason and executed via the gullotine in 1793. 

There was a very famous sighting of her ghost.  There is a very beautiful building called the Petit Trianon on the grounds of Versailles in France.  One hot afternoon in 1901, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain of Oxford England were wandering and looking through the gardens when they came across a women wearing a scarf and painting. The woman looked exactly like Marie! (The scarf was probably holding her head on).  They also saw other folks running around dressed in old-fashioned French clothing, (and no one was shooting Masterpeice Theater on the grounds that day).  They later decided that this was the ghost of Mary and they went on to write a book about it. Some people attribute their sighting to a time warp - that they were transported back in time, and that's why they saw all those Frenchies and such running about. Of course, skeptics being who they are, tried to dissprove them.  To see how see [ref.2].

A more bizarre place that she reportately haunts is Edgecomb, in Coastal Maine. [ref.3] A gentleman there known as Mr. Clark was part of a plot to sneak the Queen out of France and into the Great Home of the Lobsters.  Apparently, a vast ammount of French furniture, etc. was sent to his house in preparation, but alas, the Queen never was.  She haunts her things to this day, following her lovely sofa and end table into the after life.

ref. 1 http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html

ref. 2 http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/versailles.html

ref. 3 http://www.hollowhill.com/me/yh-me1.htm