Petit Trianon

ANTOINETTE AND MARIE THERESA There are a lot of movies made about Marie Antoinette’s life. Even more, there are a lot of manga and anime made about her in Japan. However, we’ll focus on a very popular movie (which won a lot of awards too!). Marie Antoinette (2006) starts when Marie is send to France to be married to Louis at the age of fourteen. After this moment the movies shows how her life developed from there. Her mother, Marie Theresa, also plays a small role in this movie. We’ll both…

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…

Marie Antoinette, a name synonymous with extravagance and luxury, yet also with massive debt. The former Princess of Austria become Queen of France, was famously known to her subjects as Madame Deficit for her lavish lifestyle and wasteful spending. Her depiction in the movie Marie Antoinette is one of many varying portrayals of The Queen of France and analyzed through the overall summary of the film, the setting, and the accuracy of the information. To begin, the overall summary of Marie…

From 1789-1799 the French Revolution took place, when France’s government system of a monarchy was challenged and overthrown. France had many economic problems and was unstable due to the many disagreements amongst social classes and the King. Through an absolute monarch, there was much corruption and crisis, and change was needed. The National Assembly took action, (group members from the Bourgeoisie) and used Enlightenment ideas towards the ideal government, a constitutional monarchy. They…

happiness, progress, and liberty. These all the main points that philosophers wanted the people to know. One of the most influential philosophers who emerged out of France was Jean-Jacque Rousseau, whose book is read by Marie in the garden of Petit Trianon (the house given to her by Louis). Rousseau believed in individual freedom meaning that all men are born equal. Another event that set the Revolution in motion was the American Revolution. In 1995 America decided to break away from England…

reputation.” The next scandal involved Maire and a man named Hans Axe­l von Fersen. The person was in the French army. This man met with Marie a lot. They had first seen each other in a ballroom. It is said Marie would hang out with him a lot at the Petit Trianon. He was a very frequent guest their. Some people like to question if the kids that Marie had were actually King Louis. Some people think that these kids belonged to Fersen. This then leads into the next topic involving King Louis and…