What Life Was Like for Marie Antoinette's Children
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- Marie Antoinette faced tragedy as the queen of France - but what was life like for Marie Antoinette's kids? As queen, Marie Antoinette gave birth to four children, but only one of them survived the French Revolution. Although the queen's children grew up in luxury, living in the lavish palace of Versailles, two spent years locked in a tower during the Revolution.
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Seriously, throwing a child into solitary confinement and physically abusing him is completely unnecessary, even if you're afraid that he might claim the throne later. What kind of psychopath would do this?
you forget this was the 1700's, where humans were still insane and primative
Supershrooblogs Supershrooblogs It wasn’t that long ago. For example the fire extinguisher was patented in 1722
May be the common people might have been so enraged (suffered for years) and their children might've died of starvation and lack of facilities, so they might have had the feeling like if our children died such horrible deaths the royal children should too.
That's only my guess, not that I'm justifying what they did, that's absolutely barbaric, but that might be the sentiments ig
To be honest, i would rather die. So cruel. Why they didnt kill him if he was so dangerous for the revolution? It could have been better for him.
@@tasmiabano1663 hmm
How barbaric that they locked up a 4 year old and kept him imprisoned until his death at 10.
disgusting!
No 8 even more discusting
Yea, and the people that did that were supposed to be “ enlightened” . Hypocrites
@@jeter2499 making up stories again
Omg no he deserves to live more I'm 11 even I'm older :(
If you guys were wondering, it wasn't up until recent modern years that French education started to denounce and highlight the barbaric and disgusting aspects of the Revolution. The denunciation of its grim aspects used to be seen as anti-patriotic and pro-royalist. We also used to do kinda the same with WW2 up until the 80s/90s with the belief that "all french people were in the resistance against the nazis" and how "collaboration with the ennemy was a rare occurrence" lmaoo
Imagine being her daughter. She got imprisoned as a teen, heard her brother being beat. Got released to find out your entire family had died, then when she was able to be queen she was forced to abdicate in less than an hour, then getting haunted by imposters for the rest of her life. If would be pretty hard
I think that if I was Marie Therese-Charlotte, I think I'd try to commit suicide. I don't think I could live like that
@@napoleonbonaparte7529 same here.
The French have Salic law. Women cannot rule. The throne passed to Louis XVII's worthless brothers if I
remember correctly.
@@napoleonbonaparte7529 She had strong catholic faith in God. It helps in the days of crisis.
@@melianna999 religion is cancer
When you start going after innocent people, especially children, then you have officially gone too far. I wish I could go back and change these children’s fate, but sadly that is impossible. All I hope is that they’re safe in heaven with their loved ones finally getting the peace they so justly deserve.
Yess
Even I wished to do the same
I'm shielding my soft but fragile heart by thinking that the tormented children are now safe in the cradle of angels. But it still broke at the end when the thoughts of what they've been through in their final breath on earth was the dread fear of adult's fury.
If there's really exist a life after death, I pray that little Louis would have a very cheerful childhood and live longer than the age of ten, and at the very old age he would left the earth again on a soft warm mattress bed in his own home instead of the ice cold stone floor of a prison.
@@elfryeorin They indeed are in the comfort of the Father of Lights, God the Father.
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Her poor children didn't deserve to suffer. They didn't do anything.
@@Komnenit Didn't know that feminists were known for bloody revolutions or the murder of children of condemned prisoners, but if that analogy makes you happy, good for you.
The males would have a claim to the title and other monarchies would help restore them. They could not be kept alive.
This kind of thing still happens today, look at children of Isis leaders, Al Qaeda leaders, some too young to comprehend the politics are killed off by governments and peoples supposedly in the right. The innocent are always tarred with the same brush.
@@Komnenit Yes because feminists lock children in towers full of feces to rot.
Marianne A
Feminists do murder children. In a barbaric practice called abortion.
I can personally understand the righteous anger that the french people felt for the aristocracy. They were, after all, starving to death while the wealthiest owned the majority of the wealth. But what they did to the children is despicable.
Actually, they weren't that badly off. The French as a whole had more rights and were better off than most peasants in most of Europe of the time. What had happened was a conjunction of different factors that all increasingly put pressure on society throughout the 1700's. Like a rise in population, leading to an increase in urbanization, leading to food shortages (especially in the cities) leading to tensions between needing to change from the traditional ways to newer ways- which the aristocrats were trying to enforce and the peasants were resisting, as were the traditional trade guilds. There isn't really "a villain" or "good guy" in this story. Just a lot of social tension that ended in bloody tragedy.
@@a.westenholz4032 Yeah, but you have to also see it from the pov of a peasant at that time. We learned about this at my university class on french history. They were used to higher standards of living, yeah, which made the wealth inequality of that time even more infuriating. There is no denying that there was wealth inequality at that time period and I'm not quite sure why younare arguing so. It's kinda like women's rights. Women want equality, regardless of how much power they may have. In western countries, telling a feminist that "you should be grateful you don't have it as bad as someone in the middle east" is counterintuitive and a waste of breath. The rest of Europe's standards of living have nothing to do with the fact that there was a food shortage and the poor french were starving whilst the aristocracy was feasting. It's a Bad Look. Population density wasn't in the mind of the starving whilst they watched a select group of people not starve. The wealthy were losing a lot of their wealth, yeah. But they weren't starving. At that point, they were guilty.
@@Snowleaper101 It's sad, because many nobles were mercilessly and barbarically murdered with their bodies being strewn about and mutilated, their heads being paraded. Marie Antoinette was simply a scapegoat, she knew nothing of their suffering because she was sheltered. She suffered as well, she was a child bride and still a teenager when she became queen, imagine having that responsibility at a young age. Everyday in the prison,, she suffered, being separated from her children, hearing the abuse going on around her, smelling the blood literally flowing in the streets. The downfall of the monarchy was attributed to the fact that her husband's grandfather, the previous king had sent the country into severe economic decline and it also had to do with the propaganda being spread about Marie and the royal family. It's strange to think about now, but it just shows that times have changed in the Western world.
@@Beatrice-sf6xr Marie was most certainly a scapegoat. The decline of the French Monarchy can most certainly be attributed to France's aid to the American Revolution and overspending. But again, you're missing the big picture. You can cite facts and numbers all you want, but that doesn't change how the french peasants felt about the ruling class. They were starving. The aristocrats were not. That in of itself made the aristocrats guilty in the eyes of the people and angered them.
If you, your children, and everyone you knew were starving, how would you feel about a small group of people who did not have to deal with these issues. Especially when the attempts to placate you seemed empty and showed little to no results. You forget that the real start of the revolution began in a breadline where the bread ran out and mothers could not feed their children.
@@Snowleaper101 I'm a historian as well, and have looked into not only France but other European countries at the time. Certainly there were social issues, as there were in other places, but the resulting madness and barbarity is hardly justified by that. It is a sad comment on human nature that we can so easily be provoked to go so far as a society and still feel the need centuries later to justify it, rather than face our inner demons.
So we create the mythical figures of the overly cruel oppressive aristocrats and poor starved oppressed peasants, despite contemporary evidence as to how life actually was, giving a much more complex picture. Other countries managed to navigate the same social challenges far more peacefully than France. In fact, you could say that France's continued inner instability remained a problem for the rest of Europe.
Poor Louis Charles. His story is the most heartbreaking.
I'm shielding my soft but fragile heart by thinking that Louis are now safe in the cradle of angels. But it still broke at the end when the thoughts of what he have been through in his final breath was the dread fear of adult's fury.
If there's really exist a life after death, I pray that little Louis would have a very cheerful childhood and live longer than the age of ten, and at the very old age he would left the earth again on a soft warm mattress bed in his own home instead of the ice cold stone floor of a prison.
Agreed...
it sure is heartbreaking, especially that you knew that one human person did exist. We could've let it slide if he was a fictitious character but he's not. he can feel emotions and pain, and is an individual.
So tragic....poor children, they didn't deserve this. As a mother myself, my heart goes out to that poor little boy Louis Charles. How can any human being bear to torture a young child?
I'm shielding my soft but fragile heart by thinking that Louis are now safe in the cradle of angels. But it still broke at the end when the thoughts of what he have been through in his final breath was the dread fear of adult's fury.
If there's really exist a life after death, I pray that little Louis would have a very cheerful childhood and live longer than the age of ten, then at the very old age he would left the earth again on a soft warm mattress bed in his own home instead of the ice cold stone floor of a prison.
I love you Nicole!
wht did you have kids? they're gonna die
In India they cut off the legs of children to make those fake expensive purses. Not purse is worth that and certainly won't make you more charming or beautiful. Only the greedy do things like that. You can be greedy regardless of your status in life. The billionaires are them.
Poor kids.
she was 14 when she got married, i’d wait 7 years too
haleigh lol 200 people jamming into the birthing chamber to watch your labour!
Oh just bloody lovely!
I feel pretty certain it wasn't up to her to wait. If I remember correctly, she caught some crap about not being able to produce children (which would be the only way to secure her position as queen) because, you know, it's always the woman's fault that her husband is immature, scared and doesn't want to have sex on command.
@@13lilsykos Maybe he was actually gay? Then he finally had to just accept the fact that he had to produce an heir. Idk I’m just guessing
@@virgie4715 - A lot royalty was gay but had to produce an heir and a spare, but I think after he got over everything, they were 'happy'.
The long wait for the marriage to be consummated was strictly due to Louis begging shy and emotionally unready for sexual intimacy. Every morning, the court would report to each of their rooms to jostle for position to be the person to assist the monarchs out of bed, washed and dressed for the day. There was no type of privacy afforded to the monarchs due to the struct social structure and rituals set up by Louis XIV. It was considered an honor to insect the sheets for signs of sex. Each month when she began her period, the entire court would criticize her for not being pregnant yet and the critique was crushing for Marie. All kinds of speciation abounded and evening made its way into diplomatic letters to her mother. Empress Marie Therese inquired about her virginity in almost letter to Marie Antoinette and admonished her for not being more enticing to Louis. empress Marie Theresa offered all kinds of advice to Marie Antoinette on how to seduce Louis but Louis only had interest in his lock collection and toy soldiers. The Empress even sent Marie’s brother the future Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II to visit so he could inquire why the marriage was not yet consummated. There was debate as to whether Louis had a medical condition that would prevent him from consummating the union. It was determined that Louis did in fact have nocturnal emissions so there was no medical reason for the years of celibacy. Franz wrote to his mother that Louis simply had not been educated on the basics of sex. Shortly after his visit, Louis finally had sex with Marie. There was little physical chemistry between the two in the early years of their marriage and the lack of consumption was publicly discussed. Marie was nicknamed “the Austrian Bitch” at court due to the French having a difficult history with Austria. Marie was actually well liked among the royal circles and it pained her greatly to be so hated by the public. Her and Louis were young and immature when he became king. It is said that upon being notified of his grandfather dying, Louis dropped to his knees with Marie and said “But we are too young to rule”. He was poorly suited for the pressures of being King and struggled in his role. Marie was thus blamed for any poor decisions he made. Marie and Louis did eventually form more of a friendship and relationship based upon equal respect. She was the target for nasty misinformation campaigns like the “Let them eat cake”, the Affair of the Diamond Necklace and the title “Madame Deficit” when in actuality she was very concerned with state of French people. Excessive spending for generations and the French support of the Americans in the American Revolution left France bankrupt and so far in debt, the monarchy would topple.
Poor Louis Charles. Literally left to rot.
French parenting.
猫ArcTicxBuzZarD what is she? Bulgarian?
@@JohnSmith-en8vx no that was done by the revoluntaries. Pieces of shit beat a child.
@@JohnSmith-en8vx Austrian
@@elizabethtan2116 Every monarch in Europe was related...
Imagine being four years old and put in solitary confinement people were horrible back then
I’m not saying men are all bad but back then women were second class citizens. I think if a woman was there and seen what was happening would have stopped it
Devastating 💔
@@pamelaevm880 !
Hope usa is nicer to their caged children.
@@joywebster2678 actually the way it was made the sound they have each child put in a cage and that's not the case. There was a building built quite a while back for the purpose of retaining immigrants and their children. A few years ago I watched a video tour of the place. Although it's not the nicest place to live what they did was try to improve those living quarters primarily because of the children.The media made it sound like everybody's in a cage sleeping on the floor separated from their children. I googled it to see what the place actually looked like. Not saying it's right but they actually try to make it is comfortable as they could in the situation. The immigrants broke the law they could have been put in prison but they weren't. Just the fact that they sneaked into the country they knew it was breaking the law and I guess they thought it would be a good idea to have an American born child and they'd be able to stay here. Why would they have children in the first place knowing they could be sent back and possibly separated from their children. no one is keeping them from returning home with their children. The media is going to make anyting look horribly worse then it actually is. As a matter of fact I think I'll go look it up again when I get off of here.
“It was unclear why the two waited so long to do it”
Other than the fact that she was 14 when she married
Chris Sherman They actually had not explain to her about the birds and the bees neither did they explain to her husband for a while 😒
By the time you were 15/16 in the 18th century, you were deemed old enough to have children. By modern standards, yes, 14 is a young age to give birth, but in the 18th century she would have expected to be having children by 18, probably 16.
that was the normal age back then genius
Just cause it was normal then doesn't mean acceptable now.
And he was 15. They both weren’t ready
Marie Teresé could hear her brother crying, beating beaten, and who knows what else. That’s dark stuff, I can only imagine the psychological turmoil that inflicted upon her.
Very cruel, I can only imagine hearing the common cries of my lil brother and not being able to do anything.
My little bro is turning 10 this year. Couldn't even bear imagining my baby brother in that situation. Poor woman.
They did that to many people even innocent servants of aristocrats who were deemed traitors' because they were too friendly with their masters. It got to the point where the guillotine wasn't enough....they executed prisoners by drowning them at Nantes....these are called 'les noyades' the drowings, crudely translated. And yeah they killed children too.
Poor Marie Antoinette could also hear her poor baby boy being tormented 😩 as a mother of a son I cannot imagine the torture of not being able to do anything. She physically fought the guard who came to take him from her. My god it breaks me to think about.
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human beings are barbaric.
period.
I feel so sorry for her daughter too. Imagine being traumatized the way she was and constantly being reminded of that pain because people are pretending to be your dead little brother. Makes me so sad her children suffered such awful fates.
She remained strong and dignified through it all. When she returned to France during the Bourbon Restoration she visited the places where her parents and brother died. But she found it hard coming back. She distrusted her own country so terribly after what it had done, and many of the people involved were still walking free.
@@TheBc99 I'd have probably went insane and started killing them off
There is a book called The Dark Tower, which depicts the life of Marie Therese during her time of life of the French Revolution
None of them should’ve died. Not the children or parents. They should’ve been exiled. Their revolution was an awful thing, and unnecessary since they had more and more years later.
For sure, even if someone believes the king and queen got what they deserved, there’s no question about the fact that the children did not.
Everything about Marie Antoinette was heartbreaking to hear. From the unbearable relationship she had with her mother to being pawned off into marriage at age 14; from the cold brutality she suffered in her marriage to the legacy of misconception and misunderstanding she continues to evoke. Now to learn that her own children didn’t fare too well after their parents were killed was just too much.
Don't feel too bad tho, she had a pretty excellent joyful life full of sweets and fun parties she had as queen for many MANY years while her own people were starving and taxed to death, she wasn't the victim at all. The french people who were starving and the ACTUAL victims. Feel bad for her kids tho.
Women were a commodity back then.
@@Gadget-Walkmen Marie was a victim because she suffered in her gilded cage life. The manga rose of Versailles and the anime adaptation lady Oscar offers a sympathetic potreyal of the queen trough the eyes of the protagonist -Oscar Jeryes a girl dressed as a guy who is assigned to be her bodyguard and sorta friend a few years before the french revolution.
@@nataliapanfichi9933 LOL She's NOT at all a "victim" in the slightest as she lived a lavish life style while the people around her starved. "ShE sUFFer iN hER gIlDeD cAgE liFe" MY ASS, she lived it UP in the best way possible before she was arrested.
Brining up a piece of historical fiction like a manga and an anime is NOT helping your case at all.
So sad. That innocent children suffered for the sins of the parents. Like the children of Nickolas II.
It’s one thing when the parents are hated and killed during a time of upheaval like the French Revolution but it’s quite another when the kids are treated like these poor souls were
They were treated that way because they were heirs to the throne, that’s why the boys were killed or left in imprisonment. No, this doesn’t make it right but that was the harsh reality of being a monarch.
Edward Lee Miller Despite the fact that that was political irrelevant as both the Tsar Nicholas’s son, Alexei, his brother, Grand Duke Micheal Alexandrovich, his cousin, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, his 1st cousin, once removed, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, and later, a grandson of Nicholas II’s cousin, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, who is still alive, the 97 year old Andrew Andreevich is recognized by some as Head of the House of Romanov. The Bolsheviks efforts were ultimately futile
The kids would have grown up to resent the new order and spent their time trying to overthrow it. Can’t have that, better to break their spirits or kill them off.
Blubableful
Yes, I know this. When did I say the only way a monarchy had to die was by the death of their heirs?
@@algsunshine7075 they were treated this way because the leaders of the revolution were vile, evil people.
That’s a horrible thing to do to innocent children who did nothing wrong smh
I don’t know why we hurt each other
@Vilnius thank you !
And Marie did nothing wrong she was a humanitarian and she tried to help her people but they killed her for no good reason.
Absolutely horrible what happened to those children! That lil boy broke my heart. I have a son and I cant imagine losing him. Poor Marie- she never stood a chance.
I'm shielding my soft but fragile heart by thinking that Louis are now safe in the cradle of angels. But it still broke at the end when the thoughts of what he have been through in his final breath was the dread fear of adult's fury.
If there's really exist a life after death, I pray that little Louis would have a very cheerful childhood and live longer than the age of ten, and at the very old age he would left the earth again on a soft warm mattress bed in his own home instead of the ice cold stone floor of a prison.
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I imagined Louis calling out for his mom hopelessly, in a cold cell, alone, and it broke my heart.
Marie-Thérèse was a lowkey badass. During the 100 Days in 1815, when Napoléon returned from exile and briefly regained power, the royal family fled France again except for Marie-Thérèse, who stayed in Bordeaux and refused to abandon her country a second time. Napoléon called her "the only man in her family".
Marie Antoinette is the perfect example of “history is written by the winner”. Tragic story.
she was a spoiled horrible person who was ignorant of the world
C104 That’s exactly what I mean. You didn’t know her personally, you only heard the popular opinion about her, which is only the negative things. But if you dig deeper you learn she was just a naive child and wasn’t even allowed to do anything and wasn’t involved in politics. She was just there to bear children, that was the purpose of a queen consort. She had no idea of the situation.
@@user-tk2lf1dv3s it's you who are horrible
@@user-tk2lf1dv3s she was shielded from politics so ofc. she was just there to bear children bruh
Cait L. You act like she chose to be queen
When you really think about what was done to her children, I honestly can’t think of anything worse than their treatment, and I’m sure it was far worse than what is written today. I mean, I get rage at royalty allowing the poor to starve, but goddamn man, you don’t punish children. I mean, if your going to get rid of them, then at least make it painless and quick instead of putting a 4 year old child in a dank dirty prison for more than half his life without him having any understanding as to why he was treated that way. Jesus that’s cruel and inhuman, I hope those who did it got what was coming to them and then some,
@Yona Everstar The video said he was 4 when imprisoned 😭
Exactly what I was thinking, and yet many people here don't get the point and keeps saying it is needed to eliminate the kids. Like, yeah we get that but at least don't make them suffer
Yona Everstar He was 4 when imprisoned, 8 when his mother was killed, and 10 when he passed away.
@Yona Everstar Ana T. Is right, I add that he was 8 when "he lost his mind"...
They put many poor children younger than that in prison for stealing food.
Her words before she died sent chills. Sheeesh 😫
Exactly
not funny
@@user-nn8no8pw1o ok?the comment wasn’t meant to be funny 😐
@@headphones7644 the sheesh and emoji?
@@user-nn8no8pw1o maybe u took it that way but I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant like that just to clarify.....
Not many royal moms were as hands on with their children and loved raising them in those days. I love that Marie Antoinette was such a devoted mother and loved being a mom and wanted to actually raise her children!!
What would it be like to be one of Marie Antoinette's children, well frankly it would suck.
Exactly. Pick one;
1. Imprisonment, separation from your family, torture, sexual abuse, murder of your family, lifelong crippling PTSD.
2. Imprisonment, separation from your family, torture, sexual abuse, death.
3. Death.
Because that's it. Only a single one that lived to see a future at all, and it certainly was not a bright one.
Louis Charles had only the finest fleas and first rate human excrement in his palatial quarters.
Real life is more cruel than Game of Thrones. By a mile. These children and Czar Nicholas' children. Poor souls.
At least the Czar' kids were allowed to be with their parents until they were killed.
Both families killed by Comunist
Game of Thrones are based on medieval European history, and is filled with crap no writer can come up...
@@ximenadelafuenteraffo5714 Dude, communism hadn't even been invented when the french royal family was killed xD Stop spouting nonsense. If you wanna blame it on an ideology, you should be blaming it on liberalism - which would be dumb, but at least more accurate.
@@Neko141212 Dude the French Revolution and the killing of Nobles were the foundation of Marx ideas.

The French Revolution began in the domain of philosophy and social theory. French materialist philosophy, social theory and socialist ideas were significant influences on the development of Communism and major contributors to Marx’s ideas. The following writers of Pre-Revolutionary France are significant.
My heart breaks for Louis, the abuse and torture he suffered was absolutely disgusting
Man I'm hurt. I feel so bad for what the children went through. Especially the little boy. They had nothing to do with any of this. 🥺
If there's really exist a life after death, I pray that little Louis would have a very cheerful childhood and live longer than the age of ten, and at the very old age he would left the earth again on a soft warm mattress bed in his own home instead of the ice cold stone floor of a prison.
Really full grown French men beating up a 4yr old boy while his sister is in the other cell/room, and the sister would hear the boy's cries and plead?
May those men burn in the deepest pit of hell while Little Louis who's in the cradle of an angel would not even bat them an eye.
@@elfryeorin I mean, his ENTIRE FUCKING FAMILY TREE (exaggeration) let the %80 of the population they were in starve to death all the while being taxed to a point where they had no money (not an exaggeration).
Omg sad
@@the4tierbridge the child had nooooo IDEA.....!!!He was innocent of the crimes committed by his family and they paid for it with their lives.If you can justify what they did to the poor child who wouldn’t even be able to properly tell what is right or wrong mannn you’re sick
@@estherk5717 remember this was 400 years ago. Wouldn’t you think he would have been let on at least part of the terrible things they were doing. I like to compare his father to Tsar Nicholas the III. Both incompetent rulers with a violent side who got their asses whooped, except I feel bad for the tsar.
I really like that Marie Antoinette (and additionally her husband) adopted four orphan children who were very poor. Two of them, Ernestine and Zoe, were actually living with them at Versailles and joined them in imprisonment.
I’ve been watching so many documentaries about Marie-Antoinette and I’ve never heard about her adopted children. I wonder why historians never mention it...
@@bumblebeeeeee6879 a majority of the time they’re not mentioned and forgotten because it’s not a legitimate child. That’s why.
@@bumblebeeeeee6879 Often it's rather forgotten yes. But in more detailed books it's mentioned sometimes. She also adopted a black kid I think. I like to comment about her, cause she's my favourite historical figure, and I hate historical misconceptions. Oh, I also watch ton of documentaries about her, but books are more accurate.
@@PomegranatePomPom Yes, she adopted Jean Amilcar, who was "given" to her as a present, a slave. She instead had him baptized and educated at a school at her expense until the revolution, when he was kicked out and died of starvation on the streets.
Three adopted children lived with the royal family: Armand, Ernestine and Zoe. Armand left the family because of his Revolutionary sympathies, Ernestine was sent away after the Revolution, married and lived a decent life in Paris and Zoë just completely disappeared from history, it's not unthinkable that she died young as she was about 4 when she was separated from the family.
Wow
Narrator acting all sad throughout the video.
At the end of the video: ask in a cheerful voice "what do you think it would be like to be her children"
Me: Bruh wth
😭 for real
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i always felt bad for the kids when i first learned about this stuff. it was never their fault, they didn't deserve that fate.
Makes me mad that her relatives and the other nations didn't demand that the children at least set free and sent into exile with other family members during this time. I can understand putting the parents on trial and in prison, but to do this to the children? Just unconscionable. Reminds me of the Romanov children. King George of England could have saved his younger cousins and chose not to. I hope he was tormented by guilt the rest of his sorry life.
He was allegedly quite cruel and abusive to his eldest son in particular.
Their relatives would have had to threat to invade France for some children they barely knew and would be seen as a threat for their own children. The royals were douches, that was one of the causes of the Revolution.
@@Hektols I understand they weren't doing everything they should have been for their country. But to torture, starve and execute innocent children?! The revolutionists were just as evil if not more so, than the Royals they usurped.
King george was a total jerk to his own children helping others children is far away
Well, that was kinda part of why the royal were killed, though - the french rebels were worried that other countries would invade to try and save the king and queen and re-instate them on the throne. Soooo they killed them. I'm pretty sure Austria - I think - were demanding to have the family released and so rebel's answered with 'Nah, fam, they can die instead'. That way no one was gonna be able to reclaim the throne.
So yeah, other nations could've demanded to have the kids released, but that demand would've been ignored. I'm sure plenty of family members were trying to save the family somehow, but to no succes
And we know from Weird History, she never said "let them eat cake."
Is that from the song killer queen?
@@nathanielilagan5288 its from Oversimplified
It was Brioche, which pretty much is a sort of cakebread. Still tonedeaf.
@@CheztaAhmad than let them eat taco bell crunch wrap supreme
She meant eat the caked on crud at the bottom of a stove
I see her differently now. How sad to live while your babies suffer and die. My Mother's Heart is broken😔.
I have two sons and a daughter and couldn't imagine not being able to protect them from something as horrific as that. I can just imagine what Marie Antoinette went through knowing her baby was locked up in a prison at such a young age, scared and being abused. What an awful thing for such an innocent child to have to endure. His sister probably felt guilty too that she couldn't come to his aid. Those guards were nothing but the scum of the earth. They didn't say how the daughter was treated in the tower, but more than likely she was abused too, maybe even raped by those horrible men.
Marie Antoinette was so much more than the partying, extravagant queen that many in history tried to make her out to be. She was such a great mother, who constantly tried to recreate her loving childhood within the confines of the French Court.
She really didn't deserve it all, she and Louis were too young and uneducated on politics to rule. They were literally ignorant to what was happening and didn't know what to do.. Plus then they torture their innocent children? It's really fucked..
@@starsiadraws what? They grew up highly educated & raised in a political hierarchy environment with advisors, all children of royalty are raised with the knowledge that they will be married off to fill a royal position or the job will fall in their hands even if last in line of reaching the throne & with that said, she Marie Antoinette indulged herself in extreme opulence of the most extravagant kind while doing nothing for her people's suffering but look down on them as unworthy peasants with arrogant entitled elitism & ignoring all the warning signs of an uprising then tried to run away after years of wasting tax payers money of unnecessary lavish partying as well as gold & silver thread dresses & curtains. They did nothing for their country or their people while in charge but live in luxury
I agree. I believe they slandered her name and still do to this day. Like that " Let them eat cake" comment that still follows her to this day. She never even said that. Someone else at court said it, a good sixty years prior to Marie Antonietta ever stepping foot in France. I believe had they had better counsel they would have been able to rule better. They were young when they came to the throne, and Louis certainly had much to learn.
@@AmazinGraceXOXO1 being young doesn't prevent someone from having empathy or cause someone to indulge themselves in luxury while the country suffers. She may not have said that exact quote as I'm well aware of but she didn't say or do anything to stop the suffering. Queen Elizabeth was young & still made reasonable choices for her country. Marie was warned of her extravagant spending & so she got even more extravagant & higher taxes were put on the people already struggling not the wealthy. She was an elitist arrogant person who looked down on her peasants. I'm not advocating for abusing children but she had choices & advisors & all children raised in royal settings are educated for the potential role in the event that they are to inherit the position or enter it through marriage
You don't have to be mature of age to be mature or ethical of mind. She use the opportunity to be a self indugent pious brat
@dee ann laker : Exactly. I just watched a documentary yesterday about the revolution and Marie-Antoinette ( on TV ). She spent so much money that she was constantly asking for more from the king ( who, of course showered her with money and presents paid by the peasants’ taxes ). She didn’t care at all for the people, who were starving, by the way. Just the price of ONE of her books was the equivalent of what one person made in a year! This didn’t keep her from ordering dozens of books. And it’s only an example ( I’m not even going to talk about her dresses and jewels ).
Of course, people got enraged.
This was worst than the Romanov children.
True. Their suffering lasted much shorter, but their fates give me goosebumps as well when I think about it.
True. At the very least, they were able to be with their family until the very end.
You re right. The Romanovs were together untill the very end
Is it true the girl’s and their mother had so much jewelry hidden under their clothing it took a crazy amount of shooting to kill them?
@@evecharles6273 From what I have always read, it is true. The jewels were sewn into their corsets to hide them. The bullets kept bouncing off of the jewels.
My little brother is 8 and I’m 17, if we both were thrown in a prison and I had to hear him cry being beaten it would send me off the rails. I can’t think of any worse psychological torment than that, those poor children I can’t believe these things were tolerated in history
I think the only worse thing would be to be separated from your children, but hear them being beaten and crying, tbh. As a mother of 5, I can honestly say I'd go insane within days of that, I believe. Bad enough to know your children are in pain, bit to not even be able to comfort them in any way would be literal torture 😥
@@BeautifulHades I couldn’t even fathom it, I love my brother to death so I can’t even begin to imagine what that’s be like with your own children
Hmm.. separating innocent children from their parents, and refusing to reunite them-possibly never able to see them again. That sounds familiar.
A great deal of Karma is accumulated when you do that to a child. No wonder France was so unstable for most of the first part of the 19th century.
She gathered karma to her children for being the type.of monarch she was.
jeanette p She had a choice?
None of the monsters themselves have yet paid for their genocidal murdering lies,
those who really began this revolution of lies,
save but just their cannon fodder,
and those who sided with them in secret.
That along with the common peoples as well,
where they all died betrayed along with the monarchies as well.
Oh how i wish karma really existed.
Then the brutes that hound myself and others so long would die to Justice,
where it would be served automatically to themselves.
Where the Peace that we waited so long for,
would not be in vain to this very day as of yet.
@@Wondwind Well, not wrote a letter to the Austrian King to invade France on her behalf, could had help, don't You think?
Emyaj Nosdrahcir Eniac Sovereign Karma doesn’t exist? A liar believes nothing people tell him, and thinks everyone believes his lies. That is Karma. Everything has a reaction. Everything. Karma is not a sword of retribution dealt by some higher being. It’s cause and effect. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don’t see how anyone can treat children this way. No matter who the children were. Where is that human emotion empathy in these people?
Chronicles of Laura They are French.
Many people asked that question during these revolutions. Many French revolutions opposing the main one (usually around country sides) fought for years and years to stop these revolutionaries from going into there villages and screwing things up.
See: The Children caged at the borders.
Crystal H those are Obama’s cages straight from the Chicago steel mills.
Because sadly, it's human nature to hate and destroy the lives of others for our own benefit. That's what we're learning and trying to overcome in first world countries.
“You know I existed but for them and you” wow, she sounded like such a good mother, this is sad
It’s horrid..I can’t imagine what the little one went through Luis Charles. 😢 Poor child
I feel sorry for Marie Antoinette (and the kids). It's just proof of how stupid human perception can be. To the people the idea of Marie being this person was enough for them to treat her like that. Reality didn't matter.
Envy kills
I'm sure the countless poor villiage slave women and children suffered alot more.
@@jillsmcfarland2001 The French people weren't slaves
@@jillsmcfarland2001 That is wrong, yes they were starving but it wasn't entirely her fault. She wasn't trained to be a queen and when she was, she became more subservient to her people. But that wasn't enough they still hated her, even from the start. Yes, she was a bad queen but Marie antoinette did not deserve such a cruel fate. Those who took part in that uncivilised act should have been punished. Sadly, now it's to late we can't do anything about it.
Neither her, nor her husband nor her children should’ve been murdered. It was unnecessary
Every time I would hear the story of Marie Antoinette, it makes me want to hug her and her children.
Such a sad story. I hesitated to watch this video because I feel the same
Marie Antoinette wouldn't even let you near her, peasant.
I’m so heartbroken and angry for how they treated the children.
9:41 LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL HE WAS
How can they claim to be him with those disgusting faces? 🙂
Horrible way to treat kids
You mean horrible way to treat humans
Horrible way to treat a living being
@tasha cork well it wasn't their fault that louis XV lost the seven years war which made france bankrupt
@tasha cork OK let me ask you a simple question, would you rather the Jacobins or the French monarchy
tasha cork So rather have a dictatorship?
"What life was like for Marie Antoinette's children"
_That's rough buddy_
You know we watch nature shows w animals tearing each other apart. Its a lot easier to watch that than to fathom that people could actually be that cruel to children.Then the revolutionists went home and coddled their own children, go figure..Marie Antoinette suffered badly.
My first gf was turned into moon
Laura Rumpe that’s rough buddy
ah, i see you're a man of culture as well.
What they did to the kids was inhuman and something no one (let alone kids) deserves. I felt so sad for the kids as they suffered because of old injustices and hate that had always been there before they even existed
@Vilnius thanks 👍
i cant believe the cruelty with which they’ve treated the poor boy. 8 years old! He was 8! 😭😭😭😭 Monarchy might have been evil but damn, the people who are responsible for the boy’s suffering and death are even more so.
I have a son who is 9 and if anyone laid a hand on him…. I couldn’t even imagine her pain knowing her babies were being tortured.
There is nothing weird about this history... it is simply tragic and I'm appalled by how the children were treated.
I read a biography on her and her family. And it’s such a sad story.
What was the book the you read? Any other books you have read that you thought were good?
What was the biography? I would love to read it! 💗
@@apersonontheinternet595 There is one by Antonia Fraser I highly recommend, it shows what Marie Antoinette's life was really like.
And a warning for those looking to upset the natural order - like antifa, marxists, and those destroying the world economy with these unwarranted lock downs.
@@imbubbajones stfu
And I thought my life sucks.
P.S. - I literally cried when i heard about the poor child😢
The royal family had a lot of misdoings but the children were not to be blamed for their parents. Poor kids
This just cast me into a state of Depression. No compassion, no love, no concern for the innocence of children who had nothing to do with with the decisions made by adults. I don’t understand this level of inhumanity at all.
Yes.. very much the same..
Well those adults torturing those children used to be like them, what went wrong?
And ppl say times were better........These ppl were insane how could someone do that to a child
That’s the French Revolution for ya
White people
it was just as well the marriage was not consummated outright. she was only 14 and he was a stranger. i cant even imagine a 14y.o's body handling a pregnancy. nope.
When I was in 7th grade there was a pregnant 6th grader
@@theshyguy4932 thats rough. young girls' pelvis arent developed enough to handle pregnancy
@@allier1867 and not to mention that it's more fatal for teens to go through with it
Pretty common back then. King Henry Tudor's mom had him around 12 or 13.
@@TheDarkRaven That doesn't mean her body was ready for it, buddy
This kids didn't deserve this kind of fate. No children should be made to bear the sins and faults of their parents. A would-be king treated not much better than any prisoner at the time. A princess forced to live the rest of her life dealing with scars from a childhood voided of positive human interaction. This is utterly tragic.
Her poor children! 😔 I especially feel for her daughter.
There is no proof that Marie Antoinette ever had an affair with Count Fersen. Sadly, whatever correspondence between her and the Count was destroyed by his remaining relatives after his murder in Sweden. As a matter of fact Marie Antoinette had great affection for her husband Louis and they respected each other greatly. It took her some years to grow up but she finally was full of grace and compassion for the French people. Her enemies, her husband’s brothers, smeared her reputation so that the French people ended up hating her and blamed her for everything - it also did no good that she was Austrian as those countries hated each other and was the reason for the marriage to be held as it was an alliance and hoped for the future.
lol there’s literally her dairy which is the opposite of what u said
Robbie Harper Sorry I fail to grasp your meaning. What does her hameau have to do with your comment?
Billie Ford I’m quite confused as to what they’re talking about as well. Even as young women she was filled with compassion. She adopted several children and cared for them up until the revolution.
savannah martinez It has to be that none of these people have read any books on Marie Antoinette or studied anything about this time of history. They just repeat snippets of things they have heard.
I think what Robbie Harper meant to say was diary instead of dairy. Someone wrote a book, fictional, about a diary. I happen to have a book of letters, all translated, of course, of the correspondence between Queen Marie Theresa and Marie Antoinette and nothing of the sort was ever mentioned. I’m sure, though, that no daughter would tell her mother of any affair, and her mother was always admonishing Marie about doing the right thing by her new people, the French.
Anyway, I could go on and on as this is a part of history that fascinates me and so I have taken it upon myself to be knowledgeable about it. So much so that I moved to Paris 3 years ago. I see you, too know more than the average person. Good for you.
@@erminedereims400 Please, actually do some research on this matter or even better, stay out of it. It's quite clear your mind is far to immature and gullible for such a topic. Marie antoinette was doomed from the start, the French allways had a strong hatred towards her they even went as far as to make up horrible romours about her.
“What Life Was Like for Marie Antoinette’s Children.”
*thats a lot of damage*
Her children didn't deserve the horrific punishment, this is a very sad story.
My ancestors were supposedly maids to Marie Antoinette and they fleed to England in the French revolution. They were called the Bosenquettes. I'd love to know more about them
We had a BBC News Reader named Reginald Bosenquette!
@@jegsthewegs Would be interesting to know his ancestory
Always a tragic story of Marie Antoinette. I feel especially sad for her children 😢
Death to tyrants.
Rob
The french revolution deposed one tyrant and replaced him with many more.
Your point? It lead to the fall of every other absolute monarchy in Europe (except Vatican City but that doesn’t really count). If you don’t think that’s good I don’t know what to tell you. The divine right of kings has caused far more suffering in the world than a couple of kids getting tortured. If that’s what it took to be rid if it, that’s fine with me.
@@rogerszmodis the best rulers were absolute monarchs
@@rogerszmodis so your saying the Jacobins are better than the French monarchy?
It’s not weird history, it’s sad history
I didn't expect to click on this video and start crying . . . I just wanted to educate myself on the topic of Marie Antoinette a bit more. But goodness the thought of what that poor family had to have gone through has got me bawling.
I feel bad for the whole family. When we studied Marie Antoinette, we found out that she never got training on how to rule,A and her husband wasn't any better. She was a good person, but her mother concentrated more on making her wife material than making her for to rule. So when she went to the throne, she did what she had been taught, which was to care about looks and social standing. What happened to her and the children was so devastating
Being a mother myself this broke my heart how can anybody mistreat a child like that
@Diana yeah
@Diana true during those days it was scary no mercy
@@Moonlight-d7g it's still like that today sadly. Compassion is not the most shared thing in this world.
Yessssss I'm so crushed my son is my heart I couldn't imagine
Damn, they treated him like that short story we read in English class where one kid was tormented, so society could live in peace and prosperity.
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas?
Which one? Asking seriously :-)
@@hkbabel
Hi Holly,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas
So I see several folks know the story but is it worth reading?
@@watchdealer11 Thank you !!! Edit - I love Le Guin & actually own The Wind's 12 Quarters, but unfortunately book in storage at moment so I can't refresh my obviously pitiful memory :-)
"What would i be like to be one of Marie Antoinette's children?" Pretty eff'd up, I'll wager.
This one haunted me. I laid awake in bed thinking about it.
It made my heart ache when I Heard about what had happened to Louis
Well, it was a long time ago and millions of anonymous children have had horrible lives and brutal deaths since then.
wholeNwon You’re right. As a mother, I just can’t stand the thought of any child being abused.
wholeNwon You’re right but that doesn’t make what happened to the poor child any less disturbing and sad 😔
@@someone-wk2wj Obviously not.
She never said let them eat cake.
She said let them eat brioche.
@Miss Doll
She didn't say that either
@@Vincinate nah she said "don't drop that dun dun dun"
@@SlapstickGenius23 She never said anything of the kind.
She said 'from the top make it drop that's a wap'
the last baby who died had it easier than her siblings in retrospect
I think the one who suffered the most was Marie Therese (not sure I spelled that right). She lived decades haunted by the memories of her brutal imprisonments and parents and siblings awful deaths.
Four years in solitary confinement for a small child? Good God. France has always been really messed up.
Actually 6 years... He got thrown in there when he was just 4. And he passed away at 10, so that makes it 6 years.
I'm shielding my soft but fragile heart by thinking that Louis are now safe in the cradle of angels. But it still broke at the end when the thoughts of what he have been through in his final breath was the dread fear of adult's fury.
If there's really exist a life after death, I pray that little Louis would have a very cheerful childhood and live longer than the age of ten, and at the very old age he would left the earth again on a soft warm mattress bed in his own home instead of the ice cold stone floor of a prison.
I appreciate this so much because I thought Marie was a spoiled brat. She was in fact a child bride trying to survive. Saddest story. I cried.
I'd love to see a movie about Marie Therese with a plot twist where she takes revenge.
Absolutely barbaric. How could they go after innocent children just for existing.
I just dont understand how anybody could do that to innocent children, they could have just executed the parents and sent the kids to live in Austria with their mothers family, absolutely heartbreaking 😭
Even executing the children with their parents would've been more merciful
@Maria Kelly I know that. But they could've executed him in a quicker and less painful way, if at all.
@Maria Kelly and that is what would have happened.
I know. Yes, I understand they were angry, but those kids were not responsible for how France was at the time!!! They should have showed mercy...
Thats the thing though, the children have a claim to the vacant throne and giving them up to their other family in Austria would give Austria the option of going to war with France in order to restore the Royals which Austria was doing at the time.
Can you talk about Marquis de Lafayette? That would be pretty cool.
Immigrants...they get the job done. 👏🏾
Bruhhh lol
Yes I would love a video about me!!! 😊✨💕
oui oui!!
*proceeds to rap guns and ships*
The children had nothing to do with anything that was happening.....they were Royal family children, first, and secondly, had every right to choose upon their life the way they'd wanted to live.
Poor Marie she didn’t deserve her fate at all, I hope she rests peacefully with her children now...
The French derisively called her "l'Autrichienne".
During the Massacres, the beautiful, gentle Princess de Lamballe, a personal friend and favorite of the Queen, was mercilessly cut down. Her heart was ripped out of her chest and a Revolutionary made bold to eat it raw by putting it to his mouth.
The Great Powers were right to fear this level of bloodshed at their doorstep.
God give them peace. Amen.
And that name the French called her means "The Austrian Bitch". The French didn't act the way they dressed.
Actually it was worse they cut her head off brought it to a hairdresser to get it style , put it on a stick and then showed it to the king and queen while they were eating , they ripped her heart out , someone “fingered” her dead body , another cut her labia (vagina lips )and wore it as a mustache. Later on a butcher cut her heart in some type off of “tartar” and threw it at the crowd so they could eat it . But no one did , I guess it was too much for them...the dogs ended up eating it. Oh and her head was “saved” by one of her relatives and buried. Here is the link if you’re interested ( it’s in french ) : www.lysardent.fr/2013/09/03/3-septembre-1792-leffroyable-depecage-de-la-princesse-de-lamballe-par-les-egorgeurs-sans-culottes/
@@Mari35678 well deserved, the aristocracy sooner or later has to pay for their non deserved, easy going and debauched life funneled and financed by the private sector's (the only one which creates added value) taxes.
@@Fepers24 did you just try to justify the murder and mutilation of a women who just so happened to be a princess?
@Bloombaby99 : I don’t think anyone called her « the Austrian bitch ». I’m French and I’ve never heard of that nickname ( I’ve heard some, but not as vulgar ). Like : l’Autrichienne...
This brings me to tears, I don't know why.
Thinking from the perspective of a daughter, it kills me from inside when I think of parting from my beloved mother, never to see her again. And knowing that she will be beheaded makes it even worse.
Thinking as a mother is so painful. Knowing that my children aren't safe where they are. A constant feeling of running to them and hugging them and make them feel safe but can't. The feeling of never being able to see them hurts.
Thinking as a sister whose brother is just in the adjacent cell, crying and howling with pain because he is being beaten up so badly. And spending rest of my life dealing with imposters who'll keep pretending to be my brother.
May their soul rest in peace 💔 may such misery never fall on anyone
I love your videos. Your channel is the best. I have been obsessed with history since childhood. ❤️
One of my biggest prayers is that our children who have lost their life to abuse our greeted with open loving arms. That they feel the love they were missed in their last moments. I could not imagine being separated from my son and having to endure what Marie, Louis and Theresa had to endure
This was depressing...
My heart aches for these children, they did not deserve this.
This had me thinking of Mozart when he fell over and she helped him stand up and he told her they would Mary one done but never met again
The most Heartbreaking Video I've watched.
Oh those poor children they didn’t deserve what they got. Especially Louis Charles. Punish the parents but not the children. What a sad story.
Those kids didn't ask to be born into royalty. I will never understand how people can justify tormenting children simply because they're related to people they don't like. They may have been fighting for a human cause, but they showed a complete lack of humanity here.
I feel bad for the kids. They didn't deserve such cruelty. Imagine being forced to testify against your own mom, saying that she molested you. It's just horrible. 💔
I didn’t know it was gonna be this sad! WTH! I cant imagine the lives all of them lived. From extreme happiness and love to dark prisons and beatings. It’s hard now to believe that this COULD be done, WAS done, AND gotten away with.
It’s weird how becoming an adult made me be so fascinated by history, like I can watch this stuff all day
I'm 5 years old and I love history!
Same, I started becoming obsessed , with at age 16... Now it won't leave me alone.
@@maplesyrup6052 good! Keep it up arm your self with as much knowledge you possibly can
@@deltaforcegamingcorp.2232 i will! Thank u.I starting first grade in August I'm smarrt😃😃😃
@@maplesyrup6052 how 5 years old use youtube?
Wow, I think it was a blessing for the child that died earlier...
the revolutionaries murdered the French aristocracy and within 10 years, they had an Emperor running France. Oh, and his Empress was running around setting the fashion of the day. They say she used so much perfume that the scent soaked into the walls of her palace quarters and you can still smell it today.
A+ video!
Fascinating history about them, it would have been a difficult life when the revolution happed.