2006-10-11 03:59:38 · 7 answers · asked by wakeupblondie 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Not just her dog. When she was surrendered to the French she was stripped and forced to hand over everything which could possibly link her with her Austrian childhood. She wasn't allowed to keep so much as a ring to remind her of Austria. Even her name was changed.
Marie Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and the Emperor Francis I. She was a clever, talented girl but neither clever nor talented enough to master the French court. She was a sensitive, emotional woman, but not sensitive enough to realize her effect on others or to realize when she was being manipulated. In many ways her character was not unlike another tragic queen's: Mary Queen of Scots, who also possessed the heart of a ruler but not the shrewdness.
All of Maria Theresa's children were subject to her emotional blackmail. She would be solicitous to the point of smothering, and then demand total obedience as just recompense for her care and toil. She enjoyed showing off their accomplishments but did not necessarily like them as children. They were rarely let out from the secluded world of the nursery, especially after the death of her husband in 1765. As a group, Maria Theresa's progeny grew up to be rebellious and resentful of authority and yet dependent on praise. All the sisters, in particular, had stronger ties of loyalty to one another than to their husbands.
Unfortunately for Marie Antoinette, she was given over to a lenient governess who let her charge skip lessons. After the empress managed what Lever describes as the ''crowning achievement of her nuptial politics,'' uniting the Hapsburgs with the Bourbons by arranging to marry her youngest daughter to the French dauphin, she was shocked to discover that her 14-year-old daughter was backward and immature. She quickly ordered Marie Antoinette's bed to be placed in her own apartments and began a last-minute intensive program of instruction. The adolescent was then packed off to France with a long and detailed set of instructions, the first and foremost being to serve the interests of Austria.
She never saw her homeland again. According to what she said towards the end of her short life, she never had a day's happiness as Queen.
2006-10-11 04:21:37 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes she was forced to give up everything Austrian, her dog, her maids, even her clothes. A tent was erected which spanned the border and she had to strip naked and cross the border where she received French clothes
2006-10-11 11:03:29 · answer #2 · answered by mz2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but after she was married to the Dauphin, she was allowed to have at least two of her Austrian dogs sent to her.
2006-10-11 12:26:24 · answer #3 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She had to give up everything Austrian that she had.
2006-10-11 11:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by EnglishRose... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows? You can't base everything on a movie though. That little detail might have been made up just for dramatic effect.
2006-10-11 11:05:44 · answer #5 · answered by CreativeGEEK 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but getting beheaded was a lot worse.
2006-10-11 11:00:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
she was the dog
2006-10-11 13:15:56 · answer #7 · answered by red 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋