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The film was planned to be an adaptation of Évelyne Lever's Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France, a biography she wrote for American readers in 2000. Sofia Coppola bought the rights twice, but in the end she chose Antonia Fraser's biography Marie Antoinette: The Journey instead of Lever's book as the basis for her adaptation. [8]
In the late 18th century, four people: Oscar François de Jarjayes, a general who is a woman raised as a son, Marie Antoinette, the daughter of Austrian empress that is destined to become queen, André Grandier, Oscar's childhood friend, and Hans Axel von Fersen, a Swedish aristocrat, meet in Versailles, France and live their respective destinies while being tossed by the tides of the era.
Marie Antoinette Queen of France; Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King; Q. The Queen's Necklace (1929 film) ... Royal Affairs in Versailles
Marie Antoinette (/ ˌ æ n t w ə ˈ n ɛ t, ˌ ɒ̃ t-/; [1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey is a sympathetic 2001 biography of archduchess Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France (1774–1792) by Antonia Fraser. It is the basis for the 2006 Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette. The book, which was relaunched to coincide with the release of the related film, has had considerable success.
France Italy Marie Antoinette Queen of France: Marie-Antoinette reine de France: Jean Delannoy: Drama, History. Marie Antoinette: 1957 United Kingdom Dangerous Exile: Brian Desmond Hurst: Adventure, Drama, Romance. Louis XVII: 1958 United Kingdom A Tale of Two Cities: Ralph Thomas: Drama, History, Romance, War. Based on a novel A Tale of Two ...
Sofia Coppola released her 2006 film version of the life of the queen at Versailles, causing Warner Bros. to release its 1938 vault version of Marie Antoinette on DVD. Extras are sparse, with two vintage shorts included on the disc: "Hollywood Goes to Town" provides a glimpse of the elaborate premiere for the movie, while a trailer is also ...
A 2000 book in the young adult the Royal Diaries series is about Marie Antoinette's journey to France as a teenager, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France, 1769-1771). The two best-known movie portrayals of Marie Antoinette have been in the 1938 film Marie Antoinette , directed by W. S. Van Dyke , in which Norma Shearer ...