Essay:
Topic: “To what extent does Marie Antoinette deserve the negative image that has been created about her by traditional Historians?”
Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as the coldhearted queen of France who said "Let them eat cake!" while the peasants starved and a few other things that contribute to her bad reputation. However, there is no proof that Marie Antoinette said and did some of those things and therefore she does not deserve the negative image that traditional historians have created.
Marie Antoinette was a little girl, only fourteen years, finely beautiful, with gray-blue eyes and ash-blonde hair. (Source E) In May 1770, she was sent to France to be married, accompanied by 57 carriages, 117 footmen and 376 horses. …show more content…
At some point around 1789, when being told that her people had no bread, Marie-Antoinette apparently said “Let them eat cake.” With that heartless remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the corrupt monarchy and operated the revolution that would cause her to literally lose her head. Lady Antonia Fraser an author of a biography of the French queen believes the quotation would have been highly strange of Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who gave kindly to charitable causes and, in the face of her own definitely excessive lifestyle, displayed compassion towards the poor population of France. What’s even more convincing is the fact that the “Let them eat cake” story had been moving around for years before 1789. It was first told in a slightly different way about Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. She apparently suggested that the French people eat the crust of the pâté. Over the next era, several other royals were also blamed for the remark, including two aunts of Louis XVI. Therefore Marie Antoinette was the one who spoke those unforgettable words the one who whoever spoke those unforgettable words because at the time she was only ten years old. Three years away from marrying the French prince and nine years away from becoming queen. (Source
Topic: “To what extent does Marie Antoinette deserve the negative image that has been created about her by traditional Historians?”
Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as the coldhearted queen of France who said "Let them eat cake!" while the peasants starved and a few other things that contribute to her bad reputation. However, there is no proof that Marie Antoinette said and did some of those things and therefore she does not deserve the negative image that traditional historians have created.
Marie Antoinette was a little girl, only fourteen years, finely beautiful, with gray-blue eyes and ash-blonde hair. (Source E) In May 1770, she was sent to France to be married, accompanied by 57 carriages, 117 footmen and 376 horses. …show more content…
At some point around 1789, when being told that her people had no bread, Marie-Antoinette apparently said “Let them eat cake.” With that heartless remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the corrupt monarchy and operated the revolution that would cause her to literally lose her head. Lady Antonia Fraser an author of a biography of the French queen believes the quotation would have been highly strange of Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who gave kindly to charitable causes and, in the face of her own definitely excessive lifestyle, displayed compassion towards the poor population of France. What’s even more convincing is the fact that the “Let them eat cake” story had been moving around for years before 1789. It was first told in a slightly different way about Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. She apparently suggested that the French people eat the crust of the pâté. Over the next era, several other royals were also blamed for the remark, including two aunts of Louis XVI. Therefore Marie Antoinette was the one who spoke those unforgettable words the one who whoever spoke those unforgettable words because at the time she was only ten years old. Three years away from marrying the French prince and nine years away from becoming queen. (Source