Summary 18 October 2012 A pair of Marie Antoinette’s slippers and a garment she wore while in prison were auctioned in Paris to mark the anniversary of her execution. Among the 80 lots on offer were portraits and etchings of the queen and her ill-fated husband King Louis XVI. 摘要 2012年10月18日 在玛丽·安东尼被处死刑的纪念日之际，她在监狱时穿过的一双拖鞋和一件外衣被公开拍卖。同时拍卖的80件物品中还有皇后以及路易十六的肖像画和雕刻品。
Reporter: Christian Frase
Listen Click to hear the report · Report Before Marie-Antoinette arrived at the guillotine, she amassed anopulent collection of artwork and furniture. And today, in Paris to mark the anniversary of her execution on the 16th October 1793, some of it goes under the hammer. 玛丽·安东尼皇后收藏了价值不菲的艺术品和奢华家具，但她最后难逃被送上断头台的命运。1793年10月16日被送上断头台，今天在纪念日之际，她的部分物品被公开拍卖。
Of particular note: a pair of green and pink silk slippers which belonged to the queen. Not one of the shoes she dropped while climbing the scaffold - that still resides in a French museum. But there is a framed cotton sleeve of a garment she wore in prison. And a fragment of a patterned silk dress she owned before her arrest. 特别提醒：被拍卖的是玛丽·安东尼的一双绿色配粉色的丝质拖鞋。不是她爬上断头台时掉落的那只。从断头台上掉落的鞋已然被收藏于法国博物馆。拍卖品中还有一只她在监狱中穿过的外衣的棉质衣袖。还有一些从一件花纹丝裙上掉下的碎片，这件丝裙是她入狱前的物品。
There are portraits and etchings of the king and queen, glassware, candelabras, dinner sets - and, among other historic artefacts, a fork and spoon from St Helena that belonged to Napoleon. All together they are the symbols of a decadent tyranny but they still hold great fascination - and not just to the French. 拍卖的其它物品还有路易十六和皇后的画像和雕像、玻璃器皿、蜡烛台、餐具，这其中还有一只叉子和勺子是当年拿破仑在圣赫勒拿岛用过的。这些文物都是一个霸权王朝没落的象征，但也吸引着法国乃至全球的目光。
Listen Click to hear the vocabulary · Vocabulary guillotine: machine used for execution, cutting off heads amassed: collected opulent: luxurious or expensive execution: putting a person to death goes under the hammer: is sold at an auction scaffold: platform of the guillotine fragment: very small piece etchings: pictures created by scratching away the surface of something artefacts: ancient, man-made object tyranny: powerful or severe government regime
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发表于 2012/10/21 13:35:00
