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Marie Antoinette Free FREE MARIE ANTOINETTE PDF Antonia Fraser | 656 pages | 30 May 2002 | Orion Publishing Co | 9780753813058 | English | London, United Kingdom Marie Antoinette () - IMDb Her rejection of reform provoked unrest, and her policy of court resistance to the progress of the French Revolution finally led to the overthrow of the monarchy in August Marie-Antoinette was queen of France from to and is associated with the decline of the French monarchy. She was only 14 when her parents had her Marie Antoinette to the dauphin Louis Marie Antoinette, grandson of Louis XV of France, for diplomatic Marie Antoinette. Inwhen her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI, she became queen. As queen, Marie-Antoinette was always unpopular. Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in after the Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against the state. The royal family had been compelled to leave Versailles in and live in captivity in Paris. In more than one sense, Marie-Antoinette was a victim of circumstance. The stigma of being a representative of Austria when a connection with Vienna was Marie Antoinette in France remained with her throughout her life. She was also unfortunate that the timid, uninspiring Louis proved to be an inattentive husband. By the time he ascended the throne in MayMarie-Antoinette had withdrawn to seek companionship and distraction among a circle of favourites and politically vulnerable companions whom she might have Marie Antoinette if her private life had been more satisfactory. Her most intimate friend from this time onward was the princesse de Marie Antoinette. The Marie Antoinette that she played in French internal Marie Antoinette foreign policy between the accession of Louis XVI and the outbreak of the Revolution has probably been much exaggerated. Marie-Antoinette was not, at that time, interested in politics except as a way of securing favours for her friends, and her Marie Antoinette influence never exceeded that formerly wielded by the royal mistresses of Louis XV. In foreign policy, she encountered the opposition of both Louis XVI and Vergennes in her efforts to advance Austrian interests, and it is Marie Antoinette that her brother, Emperor Joseph IIMarie Antoinette gravely disappointed at her lack Marie Antoinette success. Even her indulgence of the persistent requests of her favourites, such as Yolande de Polastron, comtesse de Polignacdid not entail a great drain on the treasury. These vilifications culminated in the Affair of the Diamond Necklacein which the queen was unjustly accused of having formed an immoral relationship with a cardinal. At the end of May she seemed to have intervened little in politics, as she was distracted by the illness Marie Antoinette her elder son, who died early in June. During the crises of as well as those to come, Marie-Antoinette proved to Marie Antoinette stronger and more decisive than her husband. After a crowd Marie Antoinette the Bastille on July 14,the queen failed to convince Louis to take refuge with his army at Metz. In August —September, however, she successfully prodded him Marie Antoinette resist the attempts of the Revolutionary National Assembly to abolish feudalism and restrict the royal prerogative. In October popular pressure compelled the royal family to return from Versailles to Pariswhere they became hostages of the Revolutionary movement. During this time the queen had been deprived of the company of many of her most intimate friends, as they had emigrated after the fall of the Bastille, but she continued to display great personal courage that sustained the royal family both then and throughout its later disasters. In May the queen reached out to the comte de Mirabeaua prominent member of the National Assembly who hoped to restore the authority of the crown. They Marie Antoinette for an escape to the interior of France and an appeal for royalist support in the provinces. They arranged for Marie Antoinette king and queen to escape from Paris on the night of June 20, but Revolutionary forces apprehended the royal couple at Varennes June 25 and escorted them back to Paris. Barnave and the Lameth brothers were anxious to check the progress of Marie Antoinette and to bring the Revolution to a close, and they gathered like minds under the banner Marie Antoinette the Club of the Feuillants. The basis of their secret understanding with the queen was that, after the constitution had been revised so as to bolster the executive power of the king, it should be loyally accepted Marie Antoinette implemented by Louis XVI. Instead, she urged the necessity of an armed congress of the powers to negotiate from strength for the restoration of the royal authority. Popular hatred of the queen provided impetus for the storming of the Tuileries Palace and the overthrow of the monarchy on August 10, Marie-Antoinette spent the remainder of her life in Parisian prisons. The princess de Lamballe, who remained loyal to the queen throughout the Revolution, was imprisoned along with her. Louis XVI was executed on orders from the National Convention in Januaryand in August the queen was put in solitary confinement in the Conciergerie. She was brought before the Revolutionary tribunal on October 14,and was guillotined two days later. Article Contents. Print print Print. Table Of Contents. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree Top Questions. Get exclusive access to content from our First Edition with your subscription. Subscribe today. Reconstruction of the necklace that was at the centre Marie Antoinette the scandal known as the Affair of the Diamond Necklace Learn how likely it is that Marie-Antoinette uttered the famous phrase attributed to her. Learn More in these related Britannica articles:. In Queen Marie-Antoinette was painted Marie Antoinette a white muslin chemise dress—to the horror of the French silk industry Marie Antoinette considered the use of muslin an affront and to the elderly and conservative, who considered the chemise an undergarment. Such use of underwear as outerwear has been recurrent…. History at your fingertips. Sign up here to see what happened Marie Antoinette This Dayevery day in your inbox! Email address. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Marie Antoinette - Wikipedia The young couple soon came to symbolize all of the excesses of the reviled French monarchy, and Marie Antoinette herself became the target of a great deal of vicious gossip. After the outbreak of the French Revolution inthe royal family was Marie Antoinette to live under the supervision of revolutionary authorities. Inthe king was executed; then, Marie Antoinette was arrested and tried for trumped-up crimes against the French republic. She was convicted and sent to the guillotine on October Marie Antoinette, Four years later, Marie Antoinette and the dauphin were married by proxy in Vienna. They were 15 and 16 years old, and they had never met. On May 16,a lavish Marie Antoinette wedding ceremony took place in the Marie Antoinette chapel at Versailles. More than 5, guests watched as the two teenagers were married. Life as a public figure was not easy for Marie Antoinette. Her marriage was difficult and, as she had very few official duties, she spent most of her time socializing and indulging her extravagant tastes. For example, she had a model farm built on the palace grounds so that she and her ladies-in-waiting could dress in elaborate costumes and pretend to be milkmaids and shepherdesses. Eighteenth-century colonial wars—particularly the American Revolutionin which the French had intervened on behalf of the colonists—had created a tremendous debt for the French state. Louis XVI and his advisers tried to Marie Antoinette a more representative system of taxation, but the nobility resisted. Inrepresentatives from all three estates the clergy, the nobility and the common people met at Versailles to come up with a plan for the reform of the French state, but noblemen and clergymen were still Marie Antoinette to give up their prerogatives. At the same time, conditions worsened for ordinary French people, and many became convinced that the monarchy and the nobility were conspiring against them. Marie Antoinette continued to be a convenient target for their rage. In Octobera mob of Parisian women protesting the high cost of bread and other goods marched to Versailles, dragged the entire royal family back to Marie Antoinette city, and imprisoned them in the Tuileries. This incident, it seemed to many, was proof that the queen was not just a foreigner: She was Marie Antoinette traitor. However, many revolutionaries began to argue that the most insidious enemies of the state were not the nobles but the monarchs themselves. In Aprilpartly as a way to test the loyalties of the king and queen, the Jacobin radical revolutionary government declared war on Austria. The Marie Antoinette army was in a shambles and the war did not go well—a turn of events that many blamed on the foreign-born queen. In August, another mob stormed the Tuileries, overthrew Marie Antoinette monarchy and locked the family in a tower. In September, revolutionaries began to massacre royalist prisoners by the thousands. The campaign against Marie Antoinette likewise grew stronger. In Julyshe lost custody of her young son, who was forced to accuse her of sexual abuse and incest before a Revolutionary tribunal.
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