Marie Antoinette

She is mainly remembered for causing the French deficit to grow and bankrupting France. She is remembered for her lavish life style and the quote "Let them eat cake." She is also remembered for being guillotined during the French Revolution

Perhaps it only means that the assumed character was misjudged in the first place or was some form of libel or slander that was not warranted by the Queen of France.

Le Brun is the Rococo artist that was known for portraits of royalty including Marie Antoinette.

After becoming famous for inventing stained glass, Marie Antoinette frequently had enriched uranium orgies with the president of show business and board members of the great men and women of the lipstick movement, which led to Marie Antoinette inventing and perfecting the lipstick party.

Great hair.

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.

The court of France revolved around many different rituals and ceremonies. One of these was the coucher, which was the custom that the court be present when the prince and princesses of France went to bed. It was considered an honor to witness this. Although it is unlikely that they actually undressed in front of the court - they would be handed nightshirts, and go behind privacy screens or in private rooms to be completely changed into nightclothing, and then return for the rest of the ritual.

On their wedding night, their bed needed to be blessed as an additional part of the wedding ceremony.

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There are many reasons, I don't know where to begin. The Queen was born in Austria, a small country near Germany. Austria and France were at war for many years and were enemies. When Marie first came to France, she spent a lot and thought nothing of the peasants, who soon fought for revenge. By force, she married Louis Auguste and talked to Madame du Barry. "There are many people at Versailles." Was all she said to her in her entire life.

"Madame Veto" was a popular epithet for Marie Antoinette, because she supposedly coaxed the king into using his veto power. Correspondingly, Louis XVI was "Monsieur Veto" .

Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution, wife to King Louis XVI.

After her husband was deposed and France was declared a republic, Louis was officially renamed "Citizen Louis Capet" (Hugh Capet was the founder of the Capetian dynasty of French kings, from which Louis was ultimately descended).

Louis was executed for treason and attempting to surpress the Revolution in 1793. Marie-Antoinette was then officially called "the widow Capet" as a reflection of the fact that her husband was dead - French royalists of course maintained that she was still Queen of France.

Marie Antoinette was herself executed shortly afterwards.

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No. She was the wife of Louis XVI, not Louis XIV.

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They did not provoke a war. The revolution was started a long time before Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were even born.

It all started with Louis XIV, the great grandfather of Louis XVI. He had built Versailles and spent millions on staff, causing a gigantic debt in the treasury. When his successor Louis XV became King (he was then 5!), he didn't know how to solve all the debt, so he started raising taxes. Conveniently enough, the clergy and nobility were cleared from taxes, although they were the richest people. To make matters worse, Louis XV declared war to several countries, while there was absolutely no money to pay for it. By the time Louis XVI succeeded him, France was bankrupt and was actually declared so in 1789. Louis XVI had desperately tried to clear the debt, but did not see any other solution to do so then to raise taxes, even though the French bourgeoisie was starving. He tried to make the nobility and clergy also pay taxes, but they became furious at him when they heard of his plans and prohibited him the execution of these plans. So, this King who so desperately wanted to solve the financial mess the country was in, found himself with his back against the wall and did not know what to do. Everybody wanted it to be solved, but nobody (of the nobility and clergy) were willing to give up some of their priviliges to do so. Instead, they blamed everything on Louis XVI and especially his wife Marie Antoinette.

A lot of different painters, but the most famous was Madame Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

During the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette kept in contact with her home country, Austria.

Marie Antionette and King Louis were not respected and loved by the people of France at the time, firstly due to the fact that while France was starving and growing in debt they were refurbishing their palaces.

secondly they were not popular people as Marie Antionette was Austrian and therefore was not respected nor welcomed by the people of france even though she was a caring and loving queen, the french public used propoganda in order to give her a bad reputation.

They were not popular and were seen almost as if they were an evil force driving France into ruins and thus were not respectd nor loved by the fellow people of france at the time

Yes. Marie Antoinette had the blood of the Bourbons--the Orleans branch--and of Lorraine on her father's side. More remotely, her Orleans great-grandmother, a Palatine princess known as Liselotte, brought her the blood of Mary Queen of Scots via Elizabeth of Bohemia--but this was to go back 200 years. On the maternal side, Marie Antoinette inherited German blood from her grandmother Elizabeth Christina of Brunswick-Wolfbuttel, once described as "the most beautiful queen on earth." Her appearance at the age of fourteen enchanted her husband Charles VI: "Now that I have seen her, everything that has been said about her is but a shadow devoured by the light of the sun."

Well, she wasn't exactly a mathematician as being queen of France ;-). She did invent one mathematical design though, called La Harpie.

When the French soldiers went to America to help the Americans fight their revolution, the news came back to Paris from the front that soldiers had seen a new animal specie they had never seen before, and they called it the Harpie. At that specific time, the pouf-hairstyle invented by Marie Antoinette was hotter than hot, and it was especially the trend to have one that portrayed an event. So Marie Antoinette designed a triangular design that was supposed to present the Harpie and had it printed on several dresses and ribbons. Soon it was a huge trend and everybody dressed "a la Harpie". It looked a little like the Louis Vutton logo and was a mathematical design.

Yes,Mozart once met her when he went for a concert in Paris

She was the victim of the Reign of Terror.

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Madame Du Barry was the official mistress of Louis XV and therefore his little spoiled darling. Madame Du Barry wanted to be acknowledged at court, but nobody did. The only reason courtiers spoke to her was to please the King. Madame Du Barry wanted Marie Antoinette to speak to her desperately, but because Marie Antoinette (being the dauphine) was way higher in rank, it was not allowed for Madame Du Barry to speak to her first. She had to wait until Marie Antoinette would say a few words directed to her, before she was allowed to speak back.

Marie Antoinette learned that Madame Du Barry had been a prostitute in previous years and was a provocative woman. Marie Antoinette found it hard to believe that such a woman with such a history and such behaviour was allowed at court, let alone be the King's mistress. Marie Antoinette's evil three aunts (the sisters of Louis XV) spurred her on not ever to speak word to her. Madame Du Barry complained, cried, and begged Louis XV to order Marie Antoinette to speak to her, but she kept refusing.

Eventually, when Empress Maria Theresia (Marie Antoinette's mother) sent Marie Antoinette a very angry letter in which she harshly told her daughter how foolish she was to keep her mouth shut to the woman, she gave in. Her exact words eventually were: "there are many people today at Versailles" and she said it not directly looking at Madame Du Barry but standing next to her. That was all she would ever say to her. Madame Du Barry was pleased. Marie Antoinette later said "that woman will never again hear the sound of my voice". And she kept word.