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Madame du Barry, a Rare card
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Madame du Barry quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Madame du Barry card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She is also known as "______ Vaubernier".
Answer
Mademoiselle. She is also known as "Mademoiselle Vaubernier". From the Madame du Barry article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Austro-Prussian War. Austro-Prussian War 79 · Boxgrove Palaeolithic site 75 · Madame du Barry 70 · Battle of Manupur 67 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Madame du Barry. Madame du Barry 390,000 · Battle of Manupur 9,500 · Nick Goiran 2,200 · USLHT Violet 310 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason, particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution.
- She is also known as "Mademoiselle Vaubernier".
- In 1768, when the king wished to make Jeanne maîtresse-en-titre, etiquette required her to be the wife of a high courtier, so she was hastily married on 1 September 1768 to Comte Guillaume du Barry.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Madame du Barry article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get Madame du Barry
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Madame du Barry (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
