Marie Antoinette

not support this authority in hunting and his personal hobbies than his kingship. Louis did not have any interest in the idea of enlightened despotism, which caused his courtiers to view him as slow-witted and unintelligent. Louis’s wife, Queen Marie Antoinette, was extremely unpopular among the common folk of France as the representative of hated Austrian alliance. Louis-August was overlooked by his parents who favored his older brother,…

was headed by the radical rebel group known as The Mountain, with Maximilian Robespierre as the leader of the pack. It was oddly similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The first blood tasted by the guillotine during The Reign of Terror belonged to Marie Antoinette. She was falsely accused of treason. Her death was the one that sparked The Reign…

Will” gave citizens the idea that they have power in government. The Third Estate took this idea and made the absolute monarchy into a republic. Louis was so bankrupt he could not recover from the rebellions of the commoners. His marriage with Marie Antoinette never helped his situation because of her constant need for expensive dresses. Leaving the poor with nothing to eat left the people no choice but to riot for bread prices to lower. As the riots grew towards Bastille, they stole its…

introspection” (May, 3). Fleeing to Rome “…in disguise” with “her nine-year-old daughter, she was still very active and received numerous commissions” having made a name for herself through her artwork (NGA, web). During the “Reign of Terror” in 1792 both Marie-Antoinette and her husband Louis XVI would be executed (Stokstand, 933). She would later write in her personal diary “Souvenirs”, wishing she would have lost her eyesight than witness the bloodshed of humanity. While also writing to her…

people (the majority of the population) who were very poor but had to pay taxes to the government, the church and the landowners. Louis XVI was the king that ruled France just before the French revolution. He lived a luxury life with his wife, Marie Antoinette in the most beautiful palace - Palace of Versailles. The huge palace consisted of large gardens with well-designed water fountains, parks and lakes, and a royal hunting ground within the area. Palace of Versailles consisted of 350…

independent cinema. Mainly, Coppola tried to distance Marie Antoinette from other period piece costume dramas by jarring the audience right off the bat. “The juxtaposition of late-twentieth century punk music and an authentic eighteenth-century setting shocks expectations by establishing a dissonance between the (accurate) historical setting that is seen and the contemporary strains of distorted guitars that are heard” (11). Marie Antoinette contains a radical use of excess and disjunction.…

are painted to show the transparent quality with golden fringes on the edges. With a golden bow tied across the back of the dress fading into the dark background, similar to the chiaroscuro effect used by many artists. The simplistic pose of Marie-Antoinette depicts her occupied by some flower arrangements she is tending to, and only glancing at the viewer for a moment . Although deliberately done, you get the sense that she just wants to tie a ribbon around her gently held bouquet. From the…

republic. This new phase was sparked when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fled France to obtain safety. The king and the queen were captured and their move was seen as treasonous which in turn destroyed the monarchy. (Modern World History, ch. 8, sec. 2) Starting in 1792 people were dissatisfied with these reforms and sought to end the monarchy as a whole and install a republic. This new phase was sparked when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fled France to obtain safety. The king and the queen…

A revolution can be defined as a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. Revolutions have both pros and cons: a pro is a society can result in a new innovation or unite people, but a con is that many people can die as a result of the revolution. The book Animal Farm, by George Orwell is based on the Russian Revolution and the book made it easier for people to understand what really happened during the Russian Revolution. In the book there were three main…

This book is a challenge to the arguments of the so-called ‘pornographic interpretation’ which is proposed by these historians: Robert Darnton, Lynn Hunt, and Sara Maza. They have both believed that the scandalous writings of a literary underground played a role in the collapse of the ancient regime. Darnton argued that the attacks were produced by a group of eighteenth-cetury French exiled writers who used London as a base. He has employed the concept of the ‘Grub Street hack’ to describe the…