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While the sole fault for the financial crisis did not lie with her, Marie Antoinette was the biggest obstacle to any major reform effort. She had played a decisive role in the disgrace of the reformer ministers of finance, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (in 1776), and Jacques Necker (first dismissal in 1781). If the secret expenses of the Queen ...
Du Barry is portrayed by French actress Gaia Weiss in the BBC/CANAL+ 8-part television series Marie Antoinette. Her relationship with Marie Antoinette is a core theme of the first four episodes, at the end of which Antoinette (now queen) persuades her husband Louis XVI to have her exiled after the death of his grandfather, Louis XV, who had ...
Historian Evelyn Farr compiled a set of revealing letters between Marie Antoinette and Swedish count and diplomat, Axel von Fersen. New book claims Marie Antoinette had 2 secret love children Skip ...
Marie Antoinette depicted as a Beast. The affair of the diamond necklace was important in discrediting the Bourbon monarchy in the eyes of the French people four years before the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette became even more unpopular, and malicious gossip about her made her a greater liability to her husband. [11]
From a Sotheby's auction of her furniture to a new show on PBS, 2023 is turning into quite a year for the legendary French queen.
Marie-Antoinette de Rouvroy, comtesse d’Oisy (1660–1721) in 1681; Marie-Rosalie de Piennes, future marquise de Châtillon (1665–1735) in 1681; Mme de Saint-Martin in 1682; Marie-Louise de Montmorency-Laval, duchesse de Roquelaure (1657–1735) in 1683; Julie de Guenami, dite Mlle de Châteaubriant (1668–1710) in 1683 (possibly only a ...
Marie Antoinette regularly redecorated her apartments at Versailles to suit her taste du jour. She did the same with her private chambers, which were accessed via a secret door next to her bed and ...
Another problem with the dates surrounding the attribution is that when the phrase first appeared, Marie Antoinette was not only too young to have said it, but living outside France as well. Although published in 1782, Rousseau's Confessions were finished thirteen years prior in 1769. Marie Antoinette, only fourteen years old at the time, would ...