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Events on Sunday 8 December 1793 1
1743 – 1793Madame du Barry (1743-1793)Died 8 December 1793, aged 50Jeanne Becu, Comtesse du Barry, had been the last official mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was guillotined in Paris during the Reign of Terror after being denounced as a counter-revolutionary.