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Marie Antoinette had the reputation to spend lavishly on her dresses, jewels, perfumes, or on her leisure. Public opinion criticises her taste for lavish parties. Her reputation also suffered after the necklace affair, a fraud in which she was not involved, but where her name was used.
Marie Antoinette was accused to favour the game of Austria, and to have a lax morality. Historians found no real basis to these affirmations, but many people believed it at the time.
In the early days of the French Revolution she had the reputation to be a proponent of the old regime, and a hardliner opposing any progress who might benefit the people. Popular opinion was that the king was caring about his subjects, but that she was always urging him to be tough on them. It is known that she didn't trust the revolutionaries and urged the king to flee the country, and to come back forcefully with the support of other monarchs.
However, the quote "let them eat cake" wasn't from her (it comes from a book published years earlier) and even the revolutionaries didn't attribute it to her at the time. That idea appears at the end of the next century.
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∙ 14y agoUnfortunately, not a lot of people did. Most of the aristocrats and nobles in the Versailles palace faked their friendship just to get specialprivileges from her, and gossiped behind her back horribly. The only person that never gossiped about her and cherished a real friendship with her was the princess de Lamballe. Since she was very wealthy herself and of royal descent, she had no need for special privileges or pensions. Marie Antoinette had a big group of "friends" around her during her glory days at Versailles and her Petit Trianon, but when the going got tough and she needed real friends to rely on, all of them vanished. All, except the princess de Lamballe, who actually risked and lost her life when she came back from England (where she fled during the revolution) to be at her side. Also her first lady in waiting, Madame Campan was a reliable friend for life.
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∙ 13y agoMany of them hated her, because she was Austrian, a spendthrift and acted as a lightning rod for public anger when the country's finances were in ruins. People were becoming better informed through published accounts of the lavish lifestyles of the aristocrats, there was a rising middle class that was footing the bill through higher taxes, etc.
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∙ 16y agoThey liked her so much that they decided to chop her head off.
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∙ 12y agoThey disliked her
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∙ 11y agoYes
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What was Marie Antoinette wearing the day she died?
Her prison guards in the congergerie who treated her very badly took away everything she was attached to, that she figured out pretty fast. So, she had to be inventious. She had had a package send from Madame Campan en Madame de Tourzel which contained a bit of clothing. New caps for on her head, new linnens (underwear), stockings, and a lily white dress. It was the kind of dress you were suppost to wear underneath other clothing, though, it was definitely not see-through fabric. She decided she wanted to wear that on the very day she was to go to the guilotine. But first, she had to go on trial, and for that ocassion, she wore her widow-dress. That made the people in the courtroom pity her and so the members of the Asemblee National were affraid that when she would wear it on the day she was to be executed, the French people would feel sorry for her and try to save her in any way. Therefore, the forbade Marie Antoinette to wear the widow-dress. Marie Antoinette put on the white dress on the very last moment, just before she was to be handcuft and driven to the Place de la Revolution. When the French saw her in her lily white dress (white like the Royal Fleur de Lys!), with her whitened hair (it turned white in just one night) and ultra white skin (she had always been pale, but because she was also losing a lot of blood due to a suspected cervical cancer she looked as if she had no more blood left in her body), nobody spoke a word dring the whole ride to the scaffold. There were thoussands of people standing on the streets watching her go by, and they were all completely mute. This was what she had wanted, and that is why she chose the dress. It represented the color of Monarchy, the color of the French Royalties and she would be a French royal until she died, although people now called her Widow Capet.
Why was Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette forced to leave Versailles and moved to Paris?
The revolutionary minded bourgeoisie wanted them to move to the old Tuilerie palace in Paris in order to make their monarchs feel that they were no longer in control, but the 3rd estate (the bourgeoisie) was. The King and his family were put under a sort of house arrest.
How did great Britain and France feel about Germany after the war?
they felt so sick am\d tired
How do people react when there is a fire?
Most people would be terrified and feel unsafe.....
How do disabled people feel?
from my findings disabled people have mixed feelings some feel they are still treated way to differntly
What is the most memorable moment in Marie Antoinette's life?
Probably her Marriage she was going to get married to the king of France and the marriage would keep peace between the two main European countries at the time, France and Austria. Also when she had her first child, she had been married 8 years before she feel pregnant.
How do people in France feel about the holocaust today?
They feel like they have been offended.
How did people feel for the death of Leonardo da Vinci?
He died in France where he was not well known.
What is 'A Royal Princess' by Christina Rossetti about?
The poem is about Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution. Rosetti portrays the feelings of the princess in the lead up to the revolution of the peasants of France. The princess says of her want to help the people- but she doesn't really understand because she has led such a sheltered life. I think you either feel sympathy for her or think she is pathetic- it's all talk and no action. Rosetti portrays the feelings of the princess- how she did not want to be born into this life- she had no choice & how she thinks her life is perhaps worse than that of the peasants because they are free, whereas she is trapped in the palace.
What was Marie Antoinette's legacy?
Marie Antoinette was born in Austria on 1755. She then married Louis XIV and moved to France where she became Queen during 1770s and 1780s. Although Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette were not the whole cause of the revolution they did contribute to it by their extravagant spending. Marie Antoinette's extravagant spending on clothes and parties lead to extreme debt of the country and also lead to a new fashion trends. Marie Antoinette introduced the trend of loose fitting dresses rather than the tight big ones they usually wore during the 1770s and 1780s. Even though the French people did not like her because of damage she did to the French economy, they still enjoyed her fashion sense. She introduced the loose cotton dress which most thought of it as undergarments but she just wanted to be comfortable and elegant. She really loved these dresses, "she had nearly 300 dresses made annually for her various social engagements at the court of Versailles, her private parties at Petit Trianon and for the stage of her jewel-box theater." (Keener) She also introduced the, "the gravity-defying pouf, hairstyle." (Keener) On top of the French people being angry with her, the silk industry was too because their new lack of business. Showing how much influence she had on French style. Marie Antoinette's influence of French style is related to the French Revolution because she was married to Louis XIV and since she was married to him she used the countries money to pay fort he clothes she had, influencing French style. Marie Antoinette's legacy is how she lived so extravagant through fashion, possessions, parties and the involvement in the government. She is also known for her death as a traitor during the Reign of Terror. Her influence of extravagant living was on of the main causes for revolution even though her fashion was not hugly mentioned in the book as of why she was a main cause of the revolution. She will always be remembered for being elegent and fabulous yet somewhat evil.
How did other people feel when Marie Curie discovered radium and poloinum?
Pretty exited that it can cure cancer pateints.Althogh they wouldnt be that exited if they knew the dangerous beauty of radium.Which Marie Curie never wanted to admit (not sure why).
How did people feel about Germany and France and russia joining up?
I don't think that particular amalgamation has ever been proposed.
What was Marie Antoinette wearing the day she died?
Her prison guards in the congergerie who treated her very badly took away everything she was attached to, that she figured out pretty fast. So, she had to be inventious. She had had a package send from Madame Campan en Madame de Tourzel which contained a bit of clothing. New caps for on her head, new linnens (underwear), stockings, and a lily white dress. It was the kind of dress you were suppost to wear underneath other clothing, though, it was definitely not see-through fabric. She decided she wanted to wear that on the very day she was to go to the guilotine. But first, she had to go on trial, and for that ocassion, she wore her widow-dress. That made the people in the courtroom pity her and so the members of the Asemblee National were affraid that when she would wear it on the day she was to be executed, the French people would feel sorry for her and try to save her in any way. Therefore, the forbade Marie Antoinette to wear the widow-dress. Marie Antoinette put on the white dress on the very last moment, just before she was to be handcuft and driven to the Place de la Revolution. When the French saw her in her lily white dress (white like the Royal Fleur de Lys!), with her whitened hair (it turned white in just one night) and ultra white skin (she had always been pale, but because she was also losing a lot of blood due to a suspected cervical cancer she looked as if she had no more blood left in her body), nobody spoke a word dring the whole ride to the scaffold. There were thoussands of people standing on the streets watching her go by, and they were all completely mute. This was what she had wanted, and that is why she chose the dress. It represented the color of Monarchy, the color of the French Royalties and she would be a French royal until she died, although people now called her Widow Capet.
When Louis tried to escape France how did the people feel about their king abandoning them?
Absolutely furious. he was not just abandoning them; he was joining their enemies and plainly intended to join with them in an invasion and conquest of France. It was for this act of treason that he was guillotined.
How did Britain and France feel about the Dawes plan?
they not like it
Why was Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette forced to leave Versailles and moved to Paris?
The revolutionary minded bourgeoisie wanted them to move to the old Tuilerie palace in Paris in order to make their monarchs feel that they were no longer in control, but the 3rd estate (the bourgeoisie) was. The King and his family were put under a sort of house arrest.
When the problem of child marriage is arise and why?
Child marriage has only been a problem since the 1940s since that was when parents began to feel the need to shelter their children and provide "better lives". Children have been married off before they were even conceived for diplomatic reasons for centuries. In the case of Marie-Antoinette, her mother changed almost everything about her to marry her off and assure Austria safe from French invasion, but the marriage would only commence after Antonia (Marie) was able to bear children. I think she was around 13 or 14.
