Marie Antoinette

The movie Marie Antoinette was filmed at the Versailles palace located in Versailles, France, which is about 12 miles outside of Paris. This is the actual palace that Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI stayed in during their reign. It was built during the reign of Louis XIV.

She became queen of France on May 10th, 1774.

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.

Marie Antoinette had an affair with the swedish Count Axel Fersen.

spots , she absolutly hated them and as this was the time when they introduced face powder to cover them up she kept wearing it

The Queen of France was bored. Try as she might, Marie Antoinette ( 1755-93) found insufficient diversion in her life at the great court of Versailles. When she was fourteen, she had married the heir to the French throne, the future Louis XVI. By the age of nineteen, she was queen of the most prosperous state in continental Europe. Still, she was bored. Her life, she complained to her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was futile and meaningless. Maria Theresa advised the unhappy queen to suffer in silence or risk unpleasant consequences. Sometimes mothers know best. As head of the Habsburg Empire, Maria Theresa understood more about politics than her youngest child. She understood that people have little sympathy with the boredom of a monarch, especially a foreign-born queen. But Marie Antoinette chose to ignore maternal advice and pursued amusements and intrigues that had unpleasant consequences indeed. Unpopular as a foreigner from the time she arrived in France, Marie Antoinette suffered a further decline in her reputation as gossip spread about her gambling and affairs at court. The public heard exaggerated accounts of the fortunes she spent on clothing and jewelry. In 1785 she was linked to a cardinal in a nasty scandal over a gift of a diamond necklace. In spite of her innocence, rumors of corruption and infidelity surrounded her name. Dubbed "Madame Deficit," she came to represent all that was considered decadent in royal rule. She continued to insist, "I am afraid of being bored." To amuse herself, she ordered a life-size play village built on the grounds of Versailles, complete with cottages, a chapel. a mill, and a running stream. Then, dressed in silks and muslins intended as the royal approximation of a milkmaid's garb, she whiled away whole days with her friends and children, all pretending they were inhabitants of this picturesque "hamlet." Her romantic view of country life helped pass the time, but it did little to bring her closer to the struggling peasants who made up the majority of French subjects. Marie Antoinette's problems need not have mattered much. Monarchs before her had been considered weak and extravagant. The difference was that her foibles became public in an age when the OpilliOII of the people affected political life. Rulers, even those believed tO be divinely appointed, were subjected to a public scrutiny all the more powerful because of rhe growth of the popular press. Kings, their ministers, and their spouses were held accountable-a dangerous phenomenon for an absohlte monarchy. This Austrian-born queen may nor have been more shallow or wastefully extravagant than other queens, but it mattered that people came to see her that way. The queen's reputation sank to its nadir when it was reported that she dismissed the suffering of her starving subjects with the haughty retort "Let them eat cake." What better evidence could there be of the queen's insensitivity than this heartless remark? Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake," but everyone thought she did. This was the kind of callousness that people expected from the monarchy in 1789. Marie Antoinette understood the plight of her starving subjects, as her correspondence indicates. Probably a courtier at Versailles was the real source of the brutal retort, but the truth did not matter. Marie Antoinette and her husband were being indicted by the public for all the political, social, and fiscal crises that plagued France. In October 1793, Marie Antoinette was put on trial by the Revolutionary Tribunal and found guilty of treason. She was stripped of all the trappings of monarchy and forced to don another costume. Dressed as a poor working woman, her hair shorn, the former queen mounted the guillotine, following in the footsteps of her husband, who had been executed earlier that year. The monarchy did not fall because of a spendthrift queen with too much time on her hands. Nor did it fall because of the mistakes of the well-meaning but inept king. The monarchy had ceased to be responsive to the profound changes that shook France. It fell because of a new concern among the people for royal accountability in words and deeds. A rising democratic tide carried with it ideas about political representation, participation, and equality. If a queen could change places with a milkmaid, why should not a milkmaid be able to change places with a queen?

She didn't treat her people as good as the people would have liked. Some people resented her because she was not born in France but in Vienna, Austria. She was very carefree when it came to money. She ws also very arrogant too, when the people were starving because of a shortage of bread she said, "Let them eat cake!"

they were probably cruel and wicked or they just didn't get respect from the peasants.

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At that time the country of France was broke and the ordinary people resented the wealth of the royal family as they themselves were poor and hungry. The royal family lived an extravagant lifestyle, feasting, hunting etc.

Marie Antoinette was especially unpopular with the French people as she herself had a reputation of extravagance and she spent huge sums of money on expensive clothes, jewellery and food. She was also from Austria, France's traditional enemy.

In 1789, right after the storming of the Bastille they were put under "house arrest" in the Tuillerie palace in Paris. In 1791 they were arrested in Varennes and were brought back to the Tuillerie palace, and in 1792 they were imprissoned at the Temple prison.

She was executed by the guillotine on 16 October 1793.
Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine on October 16, 1793

Marie Antoinette showed everybody in the world today that being a Queen is not easy, for Marie had many heads turn against her

one thing that Marie didn't do was care and look after everyone that she ruled over this lead her to her death. it's quite simple to share out some bread to those in need and as queen she didnt do that.

There is no historical evidence that she was mean spirited.

No. Unless you count walking by each other in the halls and meals the day before the wedding.

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Her youngest child was a daughter called Sophie Beatrix Hélène (born on July 9th 1786 and died on June 19th 1787).

From the beginning of her life on, it was clear that the baby was of very weak health and would probably not live very long. Therefore, one of the doctors told Marie Antoinette not to grow to attached to the baby, for it would not live long. Her only reaction to that cold comment was "Don't forget that she would have been my friend". Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were both devastated by the death of their baby girl.

During the reign of King Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette, revolutionary ideas grew fast, as the Frenchhelped America fight their revolution that freed them from a government that was unwanted. France was bankrupt, and the people were starving. They saw their monarchs, the nobles and the aristocracy live in all wealth and became resentful. What they did not understand though, was that their monarchy was based on the "ancien regime" and the monarchs were brought up to reign as they did. Also, Louis XVI tried everything he could possibly do to make things better, and even tried to make the nobles and the aristocracy pay taxes just like the bourgeoisie, but they turned against him as they saw it as their privilege by birth not to pay taxes just like the commoners (eventhough they were the richest!). Eventually, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were unjustly seen as tyrants who were to be murdered. They were both beheaded. Their son (the crownprince) died in captivity after years of abuse. Only their daughter got away.

Probably, however she is best known for playing the harp.

Because Louis XVI had a certain problem. The foreskin of his penis was too tight, so erousel and actual intercourse was impossible and very painfull. For years his doctors and Marie Antoinette almost begged him to have it fixed by a small operation (circumcision) but he didn't want to because he was afraid of the operation. Finally, after 7 years, the circumcision was done and the marriage was consumated (Marie Antoinette's brother Leopold had a very firm talk to Louis XVI once he was visiting Versailles and that was exactly what Louis XVI needed to face his fears and have the operation take place).

1 year later, Marie Antoinette would be pregnant of their first child.

yes, consort to the King

They had no relationship at all. She was married to King Louis XVI.

Because the people blamed her for the financial crisis the country was in. Although she already got less money per year as former French Queens, she was Austrian, and therefor a foreigner which was unwanted on the French throne. Jealous people printed scandalous pamphlets of her, and the people believed those, even though they were ridiculous. They never saw what she did for welfare which was a lot. She even made her children donate their toys to the less privileged children, and opened orphanages and hospitals.