What was Marie Antoinette like as a queen?

Answer 1

She was Austrian, a country that France had been in war with for years. The French did not want a foreigner on the throne, especially not an Austrian. Also, even before she came to France, the revolution was already smouldering because of the financial disasters of Louis XIV and Louis XV which they did to the national treasury. France was already almost bankrupt when Marie Antoinette stepped in the picture, and because the French needed someone to blame it all on, and she was Austrian, she was the perfect victim. The people tried to make all of France believe that she had no concern for her people, spending money on wigs and dresses and throwing wild parties while the population was starving and desperate. The people did believe it, although she was completely innocent and killed her and her husband, destroying the whole French monarchy and the French credibility all around the world for as far as the French had that anyway.

Answer 2

Because of the simple fact that the was unwanted. She was Austrian, a country that France had been in war with for years. The French did not want a foreigner on the throne, especially not an Austrian. Also, even before she came to France, the revolution was already smuldering because of the financial disasters of Louis XV which he did to the national treasury. France was already almost bankrupt when Marie ZAntoinette stepped in the picture, and because the French needed someone to blame it all on, and she was Austrian, she was the perfect victim. The people tried to make all of France believe that she had no concern for her people, spending money on wigs and dresses and throwing wild parties while the population was starving and desperate. The people did believe it, although she was completely innocent and killed her and her husband, destroying the whole French monarchy and the French credibility all around the world for as far as the French had that anyway.

Answer 3

In the beginning, when she came to France as dauphine and married Louis XVI she was loved and very popular because of her grace and beauty. Though, very soon after her arrival she became less and less popular because she disliked and made fun of etiquette and uttered some silly comments about members of the nobility. She was young and naive and was raised very freely in Vienna. Now she had to live her life by the fierce etiquette rules of the old regime of France, and she found that very hard. When she became Queen of France at the age of 19, she already had quite the reputation of being careless and frivolous. Her popularity made a short comeback when she gave birth to an heir to the French throne, but vanished again quite fast. The French blamed her for everything that went wrong in the country and accused her (besides all of her charity work) of not caring for the French and spending all of their tax money (eventhough she spent far less money than all French queens had done before her). Also she was Austrian, and Austria was the country that France had been in war with for several years, the French did not want a foreigner on their throne, especially not an Austrian one. She became the scapegoat of France.

Answer 4

Her only shortcoming was an accident of birth. She was born an Austrian and that was something that her subjects could not abide. She was falsely called a spendthrift and an Austrian spy. Despite the libelous rumor mill, she served France well as a Queen.

Answer 5

Unfortunately and unjustly, they hated her.

Answer 6

She was commendable as a Queen, Wife and Mother.

Answer 7

She made the mistake of having been born in Austria.

Answer 8

no