Marie Antoinette

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Question: Marie Antoinette-HELP!!!!!?

have to do a reasearch paper for school and it has to be a compare and contrast paper between two notable people in the same field or expertise (like Queen Elizabeth 1 and Mary Queen of Scots) and i wanted to do Marie Antoinette but im not sure who else i could do so lemme know if you can think of anyone. and this person also has to be in the same years.

Answer: With regards to Kings and Queens of England at that time you had the Hanoverians

See link below for all the different links to each King and Queen of England....

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior_Kings_and_Queens_of_England

Only one I can think of is Maria I

MARIA I [Maria I] 1734-1816, queen of Portugal (1777-1816), daughter of Joseph I. She was married (1760) to her uncle, who assumed joint rule with her as Peter III. Neither of them was much interested in affairs of state, but they did immediately bring about the fall of Joseph's powerful minister, Pombal. Many of the intellectuals and personal enemies of Pombal who had been imprisoned or exiled returned, and Portugal experienced a mild intellectual revival. The deaths of her husband (1786) and eldest son, Joseph (1788), and, reputedly at least, fears over the revolution in France helped to unhinge Maria's mind. Her second son (later John VI ) assumed power in 1792 (though he did not formally become regent until 1799). In 1807, Maria fled with the rest of the court to Brazil, where she died.

Marie Antoinette- Queen of Hearts

Question: opera played in scene of marie antoinette?

there's a scene in the movie where her child dies and in the background is a woman singing a sad opera song. it also shows the carrying out of the coffin and then cuts over to her sitting in an opera house.
what's the song that's playing in the backgound?

Answer: I haven't seen the film, but I checked the soundtrack listing. These are the opera selections listed:
"Tristes apprêts, pâles flambeaux"
(from the opera "Castor et Pollux")
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Performed by Agnès Mellon (uncredited) with Les Arts Florissants
Conducted by William Christie
Courtesy of Harmonia Mundi s.a.
From YouTube:

"Aux lagueurs d'Apollon"
(from the opera-buffon "Platée")
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Performed by Carolyn Sampson with Ex Cathedra
Conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore
Courtesy of Hyperion Records Ltd.
NOTE: I cannot find this on YouTube.

Again, not having seen but a few bits of the film, I'm not sure what music is used in what scene.