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Not everything has been said about Marie-Antoinette, and not everything has been shown either. Drawing on the extraordinary collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Hélène Delalex has taken up the file for a salutary return to the sources: archival documents, books, letters, engravings and drawings, little-known or unpublished, give an original light to this biography centered on the woman, her daily life and her entourage, further enriched by rare documents from the National Archives and prestigious works from the Palace of Versailles. Hélène Delalex is the guest of Christophe Dickès. The guest: Hélène Delalex is heritage curator at the Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. She has curated several major exhibitions including Louis XV. 1722-2022 (2022, Château de Versailles), Versailles & le Monde. At the heart of exchanges between East and West (2021, Louvre Abu-Dhabi), The Palace of Versailles in 100 masterpieces (Canberra, National Gallery of Art, 2016-2017, and Arras, Museum of Fine Arts 2014-2015), Roll your carriages! (2011-2013, Arras, Museum of Fine Arts). She is a lecturer in art history and heritage at the Sorbonne-Paris-IV University, and is also the author of numerous works including Le Carrousel du Roi-Soleil (Gallimard, 2016), Louis XIV (Gallimard, 2015) and Un Jour avec Marie-Antoinette (Flammarion, 2015). She has just published Marie-Antoinette, la légerté et la constancy (€25, 312 pages) with Perrin.