Marie Antoinette

her from her strong posture and clasped hands. She also gives us the feeling that she is a human person. Although, she is very classy she is also a normal human being. The bags under her eyes and not the smirkish smile you see in paintings with Marie Antoinette. I can see her raising kids day and night tending to their every need, so it is highly understandable that she is tired. That she is tired from running the womanly duties that she is given. Julie is looking straight forward but not at…

by the patronage.In addition to the financial support, the Church or patron the musician worked for would provide stable work, housing, and food. For example, “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart worked under Joseph II, son of Maria Theresa and brother to Marie Antoinette,…

the people would want bread is because it was a very large part of the French diet at the time, and the government raised the price of the bread and the people did not like that. Once the mob reached Versailles the mob focused their anger at Marie Antoinette. French Guards were sent to protect the royal family from the mob. Once the mob reached the royal family the women demanded that they see the Queen. The mob wanted to kill her, but instead they demanded that bread was given to the people at…

largest cities in France. France as a nation came into existence when Charlemagne became emperor in 800 A.D. France became a country during the 9th century. Some famous figures in france are king louis the 16th who was king from 1643-1715 Marie Antoinette who was queen from 1755-1793, and Napoleon who was a military leader, and emperor from…

One of the films that attempts to portray the gap between the law courts and France, as a country, is Ridicule. In essence, this movie symbolizes the deeply religious and ideological split in England during the Revolution in the 1640s. Likewise, the same rift between the provincial France and the Court of Versailles was also observed in France. During the Enlightenment period, this split between the cruel life of the court and the tedious grueling life in the provinces was intensified. To…

which was about 97%. Now the third estate started going bankrupt because they were paying such high taxes, but were also being starved because they had no leftover money to pay for food. Another huge cause was the constant spending of the Queen Marie Antoinette. She loved to live life lavishly and the country started paying for her outrageous amounts of cash coming out of the bank. After a while France was still suffering so they decided to have radicals come in and take control on the country.…

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• Marie Antoinette was also a supporter of women’s rights • Olympe de Gouges published a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen • The Second Sex, written by French writer Simone de Beauvoir, spoke of the second-class status of women • Women were…

The French Revolution of 1789 is an important event in history because it became a highly influential and well-known turning point in French History through the storming of Bastille and the execution of King Louis. Although the American Revolution was an important event in history, the French Revolution is even more important because France wouldn’t have been financially stable, if it hadn’t happened. France’s involvement in the American Revolution left itself on the brink of bankruptcy. With…