Marie Antoinette

Archive for November, 2005

Question: history help!!! please help me!!!!!!?

ok so me and my friend are doing a report on the French Revolution. but the entire thing was tooooooo long, so we just want to focus on the years of marie antoinette and how this revolution ended. was there like a certain name for the chunk of years she ruled - like for example, "The Age of Cakes?.? how close was she to the end of the revolution...ten years? twenty? who were other important peeps during her time and the time during the end of it? please help!!!!!!!!

Answer: Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake". The quote actually originates with the famous French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau who wrote that a "certain princess" said it... this was written by Rousseau in 1766, when Marie Antoinette was only 10 years old and Rousseau actually refers to the event as occuring at a time prior to Marie Antoinette's birth. The certain pricess that Rousseau was referring to was probably Maria Theresa.

During the French Revolution, the quote was falsely attributed to her as propoganda so as to increase the general animosity towards her.

Part 3: Marie Antoinette Elena-Maria Vidal Interview on EWTN

Was Marie Antoinette ready to be Marie Antoinette Queen of France?

Marie Antoinette Biography all says that Marie Antoinette was too young to be Marie Antoinette Queen of France at the age of nineteen when she became Marie Antoinette Queen of France. Marie Antoinette was still very young and innocent. Marie Antoinette was never taught to rule a country - she was very ill equipped to be Marie Antoinette Queen of France.

Did the French and peasants like Marie Antoinette?

The French and peasants liked Marie Antoinette at first as Marie Antoinette supported charities, helped children in school and allowed the people to roam the royal lands. Whenever peasants were accidentally trampled or shot during Louis' hunting trips, Marie Antoinette always stopped to help nurse the injured. Marie Antoinette was very charitable and kind. Marie Antoinette was also generous with her servants at her lavish palace of Versailles.

However, the corrupted and highly judgemental nobles in France resented Marie Antoinette from the beginning.

How many servants did Marie Antoinette have?

Marie Antoinette led a lavish life at her palace of Versailles. Marie Antoinette had about nine hundred servants attending to her.

Marie Antoinette And Her Children

Marie Antoinette wasn't taken seriously until she had a son, after eleven years as queen. Then Marie Antoinette accepted responsibility by reading more, forcing her weak husband (whose main interest was designing new locks and other odd repair jobs around the palace) to stand up to corrupt ministers, often confronting them herself. When peasants, furious about their terrible living conditions, mobbed the palace, Marie Antoinette faced them with such bravery that some lowered their guns. As massacres began, Marie Antoinette endlessly plotted escape (always including her children in the plan). But in a humiliating trial, Marie Antoinette was charged with absurd offenses and condemned to death.