Marie Antoinette

She was a patient wife to an uninterested king, a devoted mother, and a courageous queen. Marie Antoinette's major achievement: the amazing redecoration of her apartments in the various royal palaces, and her enlightened patronage of some of the greatest artisans and cabinetmakers who ever lived.

The Dauphin, Louis-Charles, was imprisoned during the French Revolution as a symbol of the monarchy that revolutionaries sought to dismantle. Following the execution of his parents, King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, he was held in harsh conditions at the Temple prison, where he faced neglect and mistreatment. The revolutionary government aimed to erase the royal lineage, and his imprisonment reflected the broader violence and turmoil of the era. He died in 1795, likely due to illness and the severe conditions of his confinement.

It was indeed rumoured that the French Queen Marie Antoinette was a lesbian. In those days, that word did not exist yet, and the proper way of saying that a lady was gay was "she is performing the German vice". Eversince Marie Antoinette was Austrian and is Austria they spoke (and still speak) German, a lot of jokes were made about this similarity.

Marie Antoinette was the first queen in history (all around the world), that actually had pants made for her to go horse riding. Pants were mens clothing and a woman, let alone a queen, was absolutely not supposed to wear such manly things. She also rode her horse the way men did, with one leg on each side of the horse, and eversince at that time it was accustomed that ladies rode the horse with two legs on one side, that also provoked Hugh rumours about her sexual preference.

And also because Marie Antoinette had great friendships with some of her court ladies (Princess de Lamballe, Yolanthe de Polignac), people started to print pornographic pamphlets that had drawings of her in an orgy with her court ladies.

Though, Marie Antoinette was straight and actually fell in love with Count Fersen. She stayed close to him her whole life. If the two ever really had the love affair consumed, was never proven.

During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were arrested and eventually executed. Louis XVI was tried for treason and guillotined on January 21, 1793, while Marie Antoinette faced a similar fate, being executed on October 16, 1793. Their deaths marked a significant turning point in the revolution, symbolizing the end of the monarchy and the rise of republican ideals in France.

c'est grâce à Marie Antoinette que Paris est la quintessence de la mode à travers le monde

The shoes were put in the shot purposefully to portray Marie-Antoinette as a typical teenage girl, despite the time she lived in.

She was from Austria but had some french in her as well.

An Austrian accent - she was born an Archduchess of Austria.

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Her head! She was executed.

I'd say money. Even though their country was on debt!?

It was probably not the menopause she was suffering from, but cervical cancer. She suffered from serious blood loss... And unfortunately, she never made it up to her 38th birthday as she was beheaded at 37.

King Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette were king and queen of France from 1774 until 1793. They were eventually executed during the most violent phase of the revolution: the terror.