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Marie Antoinette Cheese Cake
August 27th, 2010
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Question: What food would Marie Antoinette have eaten?
I watched the 2006 film Marie Antoinette, and Kirsten Dunst (the heroin) indulges platter after platter of little cakes, rich chocolates, strawberries and whipcream and artfully sliced cheeses and vegetables throughout the movie. It's certainly beautiful and fits with that spoiled, rockstar theme of the movie, but is it accurate? I read that Antoinette most likely would have had bread and wine for breakfast.
Answer: Marie Antoinette was actually quite abstemious, she did not stuff herself with rich food. According to her lady in waiting, Madame Campan, she ate only boiled or roasted poultry, and drank only water. She was, according to Madame Campan, fond of her morning coffee and a special kind of bread she had in Vienna as a child.
I strongly advise you to read the memoirs of Madame Campan if you are interested in Marie Antoinette, as it is an eye-witness account of the Queen and what she was like.
In fact, she was not at all 'spoilt rockstar' the 2006 movie is highly inaccurate. She was not extravagent, and by no means indifferent to the plight of the poor. In fact, both she and Louis gave generously to the poor in times of hardship, in the hard winter of 1784, for example, she gave almost a million francs out of her personal allowance to the poor of Versailles, and she was the only member of the court who, when out hunting, would never ride or drive across a peasant's field of wheat.
Burlesque: Lady Borgia "Marie Antoinette"
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French Review Marie Antoinette
July 1st, 2010
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Question: any one who knows french history or takes french? i need help for my final!?
okay so i was absent for awhile and i got this review sheet and i need the answers so i can study from it. theres only a few things i need to know
can you put these leaders of france in chronological order:
nicolas sarkozy
Louis XVI
charles de gaulle
louis XIV
napolean bonaparte
the name of napoleans first wife?
country where marie antoinette was born
how you say mona lisa in french
site where the guillotine and egyptian obelisk now stands:
les champs-elysees conects what two monuments?
thanks!!!!! 10 points best answerrr. thankkkk youuu
Answer: Okay, from oldest to newest:
Louis XIV
Louis XVI
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles de Gaulle
Nicolas Sarkozy (current President of France)
Napoleon's first wife: Josephine Bonaparte (née Marie-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie)
Marie Antoinette was born in Austria, and was a member of the Austrian royal family.
The French call the Mona Lisa; La Joconde or Portrait de Monna Lisa
Place de la Concord is where the guillotine was and where the pink Egyptian obelisk now stands.
Les Champs-Elysees connets the Arc De Triomph (in the Place Charles de Gaulle in the West) to the Place de la Concord (Egyptian obelisk) in the East.
Broke Ass Movie Review - Marie Antoinette
