How many languages did Marie Antoinette know?
marie antoinette spoke french, german, italian, english, and russian
Was Richelieu living in Marie Antoinette court?
Yes. Armand Emmanuel Sophie Septemanie du Plessis, duc de Richelieu is his full name. He lived at the French court and assisted Louis XVI daily with the "Lever" (the rising ceremony) ritual. He was also the one to tell Marie Antoinette to get into the King's appartements as fast as she could on the day Versailles was attacked. She on her turn helped him flee to Vienna in 1790. He returned to Paris in 1791 to resume his duties at court, assisting Louis XVI with the lever ritual in the Tuileries palace, where Louis and Marie Antoinette were captured. After that he then joined the Russian Army.
Did Marie Antoinette discover croissants?
No, she did not discover them, but she did introduce them to France.
As a child she was used to eat this bread in Vienna. That is why it is still called "Vienese bread". When she went to France, she had the bakers bake the exact same Vienese breads for her for breakfast, and with that, introduced them to a country that had never heard of croissants before. They became an instant hit.
He gave her the Petit Trianon.
It was a house that Louis XV had ordered the built for. He had meant it as a pleasure house and wanted to give it to his mistress Madame du Pompadour, but she died before it was ready. After that, he met his other mistress Madame du Barry there often.
The little house looked slightly like the Schonbrunn palace in Vienna where Marie Antoinette had grown up, and several people sarcastically called it "Little Vienna). Marie Antoinette loved the house very much and spent a lot of time there, away from her restricted life at court with all its etiquette and prying eyes.
Why did King Louis the XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette try to flee to Austria?
It had become apparent that their lives were in danger if they remained in France.
Where did Marie Antoinette spend her last days?
She and the king were captured by the sans-culotte and taken to the Tuilieres Palace in Paris (after the October Days). The residents of Paris wanted their king to pay attention to them and to acknowledge the economic and social crisis of the time. The royal family tried to escape from the Palace (flight to Varrennes) in the spring of 1792 and flee to Austria to try and regain control of France. They were captured miles from the border in a town of Varrennes. January 1793 King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine, October 1793 Marie Antoinette met the same fate as her husband. She never returned to Versailles after she was seized by the sans-culotte.
Who died first Julius Caesar Alexander the Great Marie Antoinette or Genghis Khan?
Alexander the Great - 323BC Julius Caesar- 44BC Genghis Khan - 1227 Marie Antoinette - 1793
Alexander the great
Concerto in G Major, RV 151 "Concerto alla rustica" Concerto in G Major, RV 151 "Concerto alla rustica"
I. Presto - It is used when waking her up in the morning for the dressing ritual.
II. Adagio
III. Allegro
Why was Marie Antoinette drawn as a harpy?
It was at this time that the harpy animal (eagle) was discovered and everyone talked about it. The harpy was a hit. Marie Antoinette designed a mathematical figure and called it "a la harpy". She used this design on her dresses, in her hair, etc. She was a trendsetter.
Later on, when her popularity had gone, the people remembered how fond she had been of her harpy designs and how she had made it a trend. They depicted her as a harpy herself, a monster with huge claws trampling on the constitution. The makers of the pamphlet wanted the rest of the country to see her as a monster who hated France.
Where were Louis xvi and Marie Antoinette executed?
On the former Place Louis XV which was baptized Place de la Revolution during the revolution. After the revolution the place was renamed "Place de la Concorde" and it is still named that way today.
Is the portrait of marie-Antoinette and her children a revolution painting?
That painting was painted in 1787. The French Revolution began in 1789.
What is the song played in the Marie Antoinette movie when she comes back from the masked ball?
It's "Fools Rush In" by Bow Wow Wow. Kevin Shields Remix
Did Marie Antoinette sleep with a horse?
No, you're thinking of Catherine the Great, who was the ruler of Russia around the time Marie Antoinette ruled France. And the rumors of Catherine's... "interesting" sexual preferences are probably not even true,
What is the plot in One False Note?
Amy, Dan, and their au pair, Nellie Gomez, found music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the end of The Maze of Bones, leading them to Vienna, Austria, to learn about him and find a related clue. In Vienna, Amy and Dan discover that Mozart had an older sister: Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart. They go to a library to view her diary, only to realize Jonah Wizard, a fellow competitor in the search for The 39 Clues, stole it. They steal it from him, but then Nellie translates it and notices that three pages are missing.
After finding the music from Mozart on the Internet, Amy and Dan notice that three lines are missing from it. They play the missing lines down in the lobby of the hotel they are staying in and realize that they are actually a whole different song that wasn't even written by Mozart. That song's name is "The Place Where I Was Born", so they go to the place where Mozart was born: Salzburg, Austria. There, they see Alistair Oh (yet another competitor), and follow him into the Salzburg Catacombs. They see the man in black (who is always around when bad things happen) and, shortly afterward, are trapped inside the Catacombs by and explosion that causes a cave-in. However, they find another way out through St. Peter's Archabbey and are chased by monks after finding a sheet of old parchment that supposedly had all 39 clues on it. They are devastated to find that it is just a recipe for Benedictine.
Later, Nellie discovers that there is a homing device on the collar of their cat, Saladin. She, Amy, and Dan then find Alistair sleeping on a park bench and decide to plant it on him. Amy finds a secret compartment inside his cane and plants the homing device inside, in exchange taking what he found in the Catacombs, an eighteenth century concert poster starring Mozart in Venice, Italy.
In Venice, Amy and Dan follow Jonah Wizard and find a secret passage from a music store called "Disco Volante" to a Janus stronghold. There, they find the missing diary pages and steal them from Jonah while he is examining them. They are chased by Janus agents but hide the pages on a boat called the Royal Saladin and come back to collect them once they lose the Janus. The pages say that Nannerl thought her brother was going crazy because he was buying large quantities of an expensive Japanese steel and getting himself into major debt. A name, Fidelio Racco, which was also found on the paper taken from Alistair Oh, appears in the diary, along with two notes from Grace: "The word that cost her life, minus the music" and "D>HIC". They figure out that "the word that cost her life" was referring to Marie Antoinette's famous quote, "Let them eat cake." Amy recalls from a conversation with Grace that Marie Antoinette used the most common French word for cake, gateau instead of brioche which is what she is usually quoted with. However, they do not know what Grace means by "minus the music" or "D>HIC", so they go to Fidelio Racco's mansion (which is now a museum) and hide until after it closes. They then sneak over to Fidelio Racco's harpsichord but are ambushed by the Kabras, who have been following them since Paris. Ian plays Mozart's music on the harpsichord but is unaware of the booby trapped D key, which Amy realizes is the meaning of D>HIC. She tries to knock Ian off the bench, but she is too late. His finger brushes the booby trapped key, and an explosion sends them both flying into the air. Amy manages to tuck and roll when she hits the ground, but Ian whacks his head on the marble floor and is knocked unconscious. Natalie is also knocked out after Dan stabs her with a dart from her tranquilizer dart gun.
Most of the harpsichord is vaporized in the explosion, but the keyboard is still intact, so Amy plays "The Place Where I Was Born". A section of the floor drops down, revealing two Japanese swords and the second clue, tungsten. Amy figures out that gateau minus the music means that she needs to take out all of the letters that are musical notes, which leaves her with T-U, the chemical symbol for tungsten.
Back at their hotel in Venice, Amy and Dan tell Nellie about the second clue, and she calls Japan Airlines to book three tickets to Tokyo.
The book ends with Alistair Oh finding out who is owner of the tracking device that was placed on Saladin and himself. That person is Grace's lawyer and friend, William McIntyre.
Was Alexandra Romanov like Marie Antoinette?
Other than being two Tragic Queens- victims of revolution, not much in common. Both Marie Antoinette and Alexandra were originally of Germanic Nationality. The Czarina was originally surnamed Von Hess! Marie Antoinette was of Austrian extraction, not German- like Berlin, but a German-speaking country. She was one of the daughters of Maria Theresa- the chunky empress who is still honored on coins made well over 200 years after her death! ( the Maria Theresa Thaler- all of which are dated l780). Marie Antoinette was Catholic, Alexandra was Lutheran but converted to Russian Orthodox faith- most zealous in that line!
What was Marie Antoinette role in the French Revolution?
She was Queen of France during the French Revolution. 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 XV which he 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.
Was Marie Antoinette scared of Louis?
When she married him she was quite young and had no experience in life and I think she was afraid of him. He was several years older than her. They were married 7 years before they had any sexual relationship and by that time she had grown up and taken lovers. He was a strange man in many ways. One of his "hobbies" was collecting doorknob's.
When did King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette die and why?
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette both died in 1793 (Louis on Januari 21st and Marie Antoinette on October 16th) on the scaffold. King Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette lost their monarchical power during the French Revolution. They inherited an enormous state debt (by Louis XIV and Louis XV). Also, Louis XVI was indecisive and not firm enough to rule.
Radical financial reforms by Turgot and Malesherbes angered the nobles and were blocked by the parlements who insisted that the King did not have the legal right to levy new taxes. So Turgot was dismissed in 1776 and Malesherbes resigned in 1776 to be replaced by Jacques Necker. Necker supported the American Revolution, and proceeded with a policy of taking out large international loans instead of raising taxes. When this policy failed miserably, Louis dismissed him, and replaced him in 1783 with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who increased public spending to 'buy' the country's way out of debt. Again this failed, so Louis convoked the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal reform proposed by Calonne. When the nobles were told the extent of the debt, they were shocked into rejecting the plan. This negative turn of events signaled to Louis that he had lost the ability to rule as an absolute monarch, and he fell into depression. The French didn't want to be ruled by monarchs anymore, but wanted to become a republic without "tyrannizing" monarchs that they thought spend all their tax money and wanted equality, and also no more nobility with all their benefits and privileges. The revolutionists captured King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, held them prisoners and eventually had them beheaded by a guillotine.
Is the history in the Marie Antoinette 2006 film correct?
Marie-Antoinette was born on this day in 1755, and in view of the new movie about her, it is timely to consider her again - this time to focus on the pesky "Let them eat cake" story. The movie has been criticised for its historic inaccuracies and its focus on the trivia and excesses of her life, but in doing so it is surely only following the precedent of "history" itself, which - being written as is usual, by the victors and propagandists - has not been kind to her. Imagine any 14 year-old girl that you know. Imagine sending her off to another country (where she was not fluent in the language) and marrying her off within a few days to a man she had never met. Give her the huge dual responsibilities of facilitating the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and of providing an heir and preferably also a spare. Imagine this child's homesickness. Imagine her distress at the public ridicule she endured for not immediately producing an heir when the real reason was that her marriage was not able to be consummated until Louis submitted (years later) to minor surgery to correct a minor anatomical "glitch" that had made consummation impossible.
This adolescent spent her first seven years as a virgin royal bride assuaging her homesickness and filling her time with all sorts of fun and games, as any teenager would. She does not seem to have been gratuitously unkind, and motherhood, when it finally happened, and maturity, when the years gave it, made her quite courageous. Marie-Antoinette was accused of many things both during and after her life, for which there is no evidence. It is time to put to an end, once and for all, the malicious slander that she said of the hungry at the gate, when told they had no bread, "Let them eat Cake". The phrase was written when she was a child, in a fable by the philosopher Rousseau who attributed it to a "great princess" to indicate her insensitivity to the poor.
It was appropriated by post-revolutionary publicists and re-attributed to her to support their propaganda. As far as the food depicted in the movie goes, the cakes at any rate are far from historically accurate. "Cakes" in Marie-Antoinette's time were leavened with beaten eggs, or yeast, and were baked in "hoops" supported by paper cuffs and set on flat baking trays - they were not airy, fluffy, butter-cream-frosted, highly decorated concoctions which require baking powders and shaped tins, both of which were developed after she was dead.
How did Maria Theresa of Austria influence Marie Antoinette?
Maria Theresa kept in touch with Marie Antoinette with many letters, giving her marriage advice and criticizing her on issues such as her behavior and lack of ability to "inspire" her husband.