Can anyone tell me about marie anntoinette?

Question

i'm doing a project

Answer 1

was born November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of Francis Stephen I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. Marie Antoinette was brought up believing her destiny was to become queen of France. She married the crown prince of France in 1770. Four years later she became queen when her husband was crowned King Louis XVI (House of Bourbon).

The stories of Antoinette's excesses are vastly overstated. In fact, rather than ignoring France's growing financial crisis, she reduced the royal household staff, eliminating many unnecessary positions that were based solely on privilege. In the process she offended the nobles, adding their condemnation to the scandalous stories spread by royal hopefuls. It was the nobility that balked at the financial reforms the government ministers tried to make, not the King and Queen, who were in favor of change. In truth, Antoinette and Louis were placed in harms' way not only by elements of their personalities, but by the changing face of political and social ideology in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In 1789 a mob descended on the palace at Versailles and demanded the royal family move to the Tuilerie palace inside Paris. From that point on the King and Queen were virtual prisoners. Antoinette sought aid from other European rulers including her brother, the Austrian Emperor, and her sister, Queen of Naples. After a failed attempt to flee Paris in 1791 Antoinette continued to seek aid from abroad. When Austria and Prussia declared war on France, she was accused of passing military secrets to the enemy. On August 10, 1792 the royal family was arrested on suspicion of treason and imprisoned. On January 21, 1793 King Louis XVI was convicted and executed on the guillotine.

Antoinette was cruely treated during her final days of captivity. Her children were taken from her, and her best friend, the Princess de Lambelle, was killed and her severed head was put on a pike and paraded in front of the Queen. Antoinette followed her husband to the guillotine on October 16, 1793. She was executed without proof of the crimes for which she was accused. She was only 37 years old.

Answer 2

she never said 'let them eat cake'

While Marie Antoinette was certainly enough of a bubblehead to have said the phrase in question, there is no evidence that she actually did so, and in any case she did not originate it. The peasants-have-no-bread story was in common currency at least since the 1760s as an illustration of the decadence of the aristocracy. The political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions it in his Confessions in connection with an incident that occurred in 1740. (He stole wine while working as a tutor in Lyons and then had problems trying to scrounge up something to eat along with it.) He concludes thusly: "Finally I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake.'"

Now, J.-J. may have been embroidering this yarn with a line he had really heard many years later. But even so, at the time he was writing--early 1766--Marie Antoinette was only ten years old

she was a spoilt brat, and had no real knowledge of the real life of the peasantry, but there is no reason to believe that she was callous or cold-hearted.

Answer 3

Maria Antonia Josefa Joanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 2, 1755 – June 16, 1793), known simply as Marie Antoinette, was Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria. She was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Regnant Maria Theresa. She was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14 and was the mother of "lost dauphin" Louis XVII. She was executed by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 for the crime of treason.


Much more info is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette

Answer 4

Maria Antonia Josefa Joanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (November 2, 1755 – October 16, 1793), known simply as Marie Antoinette, was Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria. She was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Regnant Maria Theresa. She was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14 and was the mother of "lost dauphin" Louis XVII. She was executed by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 for the crime of treason.

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Answer 5

A queen of France, product of the Aristocracy who was far from being in touch with the reality of her subjects. She actually suggested that the people be given Cake when there was a shortage of bread and food amongst the people. That s only to show what a frivolous and uncaring person she was!

Answer 6

All I remember is she told her kingly husband (King Louis XVI, was it?) to "let them eat cake!" in response to the plight of the poor people in their kingdom who had nothing to eat...and then subsequently she was beheaded. Chop chop! :)

Seriously, it's been a long time since I studied Marie Antoinette. That was, oh, about fifteen years ago. lol

Do a web search. You'll find tons of info.

Answer 7

In reality they cut off her head and placed it on a pike in the middle of the street. In the movie, I have no idea.

Answer 8

She said "Let them eat cake"

She was also beheaded during the inquisition.

Answer 9

Have you heard of an encyclopedia? It's amazing what information you will find in one of those.

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Antoinette

hope that helps!