Wonderful job as always!! You do an incredible job of not only telling the history but also helping us see each person as a life not terribly different than our own lives. Thank you for your hard work!!!
I'm so impressed by how these videos are produced. They look like a professional history channel would be producing them, especially the way the history is told. It's very engaging.
Not only did Marie Antoinette have a tragic ending to her life but her friend as well. ☹ Even though Marie Antoinette has been dead almost 230 years people are still mentioning her. I wonder if she could ever imagine this would be the case during her life?
I would think any Queen in history knows that history will forever know and talk about them. One of the many perks of being born a Royal let alone a Queen
Very wise question. During the early years of her life, being among the younger children of Empress Maria Theresia, MA could not have known about her future. She was likely to become the consort of some higher-ranking Bohemian or Hungarian aristocrat, or the abbess of some convent affiliated to the Imperial Household. But then everything changed. Being the Consort Queen of one of the most important Kings within the Christian World was per se an unexpected turn of the fate. Usually Consort Queens were not expected to have an active life or to leave a legacy, but to patronize a bit the arts and deliver Royal Children. The Queens remembered by history were de facto sovereign (Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots) or Queens Regent (Catherine de' Medici, Marie de' Medici). And then we have the special section of the "scandalous queens", which included Semiramis, Cleopatra, Roman empresses like Messalina and Agrippina minor, up to Catherine de Medici. But the life of Marie Antoinette was beyond the life of any queen who lived before her: it was like a very intense novel where all the aspects of life are involved, plus with a tragic ending. She received so much calumny, that after so many years what were mere rumours are considered historical truths. I think perhaps she was aware that the smear campaign she was victim of would have had a long-lasting impact, perhaps she was not aware it would have been so long. For sure she was not aware that she would have got the icon status and there would have been so many books, movies, even Japanese anime, about her.
@@evearcana2392 Actually not, history is made of many forgotten lives (no pun intended), and kings and queens are among them. Only those who accomplished remarkable things or died violently were likely to be remembered.
What is truly ironic is nothing was expected of her initially. Her mother decided not to educate Marie Antoinette like her older sisters. She and Maria Carolina were not raised to be Queens whereas their older sisters were. Funny cause they're the only two who became Queens. Little did the fifteenth child of the Empress know she would be her most famous child. Her fate is known globally.
Amazing paintings of her! I bet she died from both, she had cancer and the loss of Marie Antoinette was probably too much, and perhaps gave her nothing to go on for! Great history! Thanks!
I reckon that was the best, most personal video of Gabrielle, her husband and friendship with Marie Antoinette to date. You always bring your subjects to life. Brilliant work, cheers.
I enjoyed this video about the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was a very interesting woman in a variety of aspects other than her friendship with the Queen. Love the historical investigation of your featured subjects, as well.
I love the connection you bring to forgotten, influential lives. Still waiting for one on Jacques Cartier or Samuel De Champlain, very important figures in Canadian History!
It's my first time seeing your face, and I must say, I was taken aback for a bit. You are quite a handsome young man. Thank you for another great video.
I've been waiting for this since you covered one of Marie's other confidantes in a video not too long ago! thank you!! edit: she and the princesse de lamballe shared a birthday!
Beautiful video. You're right, she was just a product of her times, her persona was just used by the propaganda to epitomize the aristocratic lifestyle and the practice of favouritism within the court.
Really enjoy these videos. I love History, I think it is important no matter where you are from, it help with the perception of things. Very well done! Just with the info given, it makes me want to look more into the subjects talked about.
I enjoy your narration so much. However, I've noticed a small error in detail in this video which seems worth mentioning: Marie Antoinette was certainly not the brother of Joseph II. She was his sister. 4:18 Have listened to this several times to be sure I heard that right. I'm sure that this was just a case of mis-speaking, and will look forward to more videos.
I found this video particularly interesting because I've been lucky enough to have visited all the places mentioned.... I really liked the picture of the hall of mirrors... It was really something to walk down that hall. An interesting time... and narrated extremely well...Thanks.
@@lynnhoffmann247 I didn't mind looking in those mirrors but would have hated to clean them. I think there were tall windows in between the mirrors, so that you could look out onto the beautiful gardens. What an experience. 👌
@@pinklady3885 Yes, on the outside row of mirrors . I never thought about having to clean them 😂 We also went to Norte Dame that day - I watched the fire there on the news in horror.
@@lynnhoffmann247 Ditto... 😁I also went to Notre Dame... so huge and dark... I too, feel distressed about the fire... I'm not thinking its retrievable? I hope it is.
I must say, it's a bit difficult if she deserved to be as Marie Antoinette. Its easy to say shes guilty by association, but she certainly doesnt seem to be as tone deaf towards the economic crisis as Marie Antoinette was. Although there's a good chance she didnt really care to know. Either way you look at it she was definitely one of the more fortunate aristocrats who escaped the carnage.
Marie Antoinette wasn’t actually that “tone deaf” as people say. She was incredibly generous to charities and even had her children donate all their Christmas presents to poor children once. Stories about her were made up or got exaggerated to fuel the revolution and she was lumped in with all the other royals and aristocrats. Even though she was “queen” she had such a small amount of influence, and wasn’t even really allowed to schedule her own pee breaks, let alone able to help with the financial crisis. Even if she had lived as a near pauper in the palace, they still would have cut off her head and found a way to justify it.
@@Sam-nz3vj True, lots of folks who are taught about her don't even know the many aristocracts and nobility that also spends the tax money, the revolutionaries made her into a ruthless greedy ignorant figure when she's the opposite of that, It's even more twisted when you realized she wasn't trying to mock or pretend to be the poor when Hameau de la Reine was built, she was merely trying to escape the heavily watched Versailles for a while, but the revolutionaries spun the story of her wanting a cozy place to rest to her *pretending to be the poor* when if you even think about it for a second it makes no sense, the place is supposed to be hidden from the public view until the aristocratic politicians uses the peasants anger/hunger tells about it to fuel the revolution, who is she trying to impress by pretending to be poor if she never wanted to be seen by many during those times? Nobody, she did many things that are considered the opposite of French royal custom at the time, including Louis XVI, they are very most likely offended by that more than anything
Such amazing quality ypur videos are. If i remember correctly. Your brother sent me to your channel when you 1st started it. He was right you certainly never disappoint!
I'm always fascinated by the lives of the French court. Not many from the time were spared loss of some kind be it material or physical or emotional. Very nicely done. A suggestion: Luce, de la Tour du Pin. Continued success!
I really do you like & appreciate the beginning of every video with the fingerprint. It's very nostalgic for me. It reminds me of my childhood in the nineties watching shows like Cops & Unsolved Mysteries °~.☆.~°
"The common people of France were suffering from harvest failures" that were caused, in part, by their refusal to change or rotate crops at a time most other places were doing it because 'this is how we have always done it'; they failed to listen to the king who urged his people to plant potatoes - they refused, believing some ridiculous fairy tale about potatoes being poisonous or hexed by the devil - the 'people' were definitely not blameless in the cause of societies woes; they were pig-headed and refused to take any steps to improve the crop output/acre which was one of the lowest in all of Europe despite having the best soil.
Her husband Jules de Polignac received from Catherine II an estate in Ukraine, where he lived happily for almost 20 more years; he died on September 21, 1817 in St. Petersburg.
How ironic. I play a game (I swear this is relevant to this video!!) with an absolutely stupid name called Time Princess that sounds like a silly dress-up game, but is really a choose-your-own-adventure where the stakes include death. It’s quite something. There are a couple dozen stories you can play. Anyway, one of the books is called Queen Marie, and in it, her best friend is based on Yolandre de Palastron, though she’s caled Gabrielle in it instead of Yolande (as makes sense). That story includes Lafayette, Fersen, Madame Beaumont (a person assigned male at birth who was later allowed to live as a woman, and even given money from the crown to assemble a new female wardrobe...after her death, a medical examination showed physical characteristics of both sexes, indicating probably intersex), and others who really existed. In that story, you’re trying to avoid getting your head cut off. Anyway, I’m kinda addicted and find it very amusing that I went from playing the Queen Marie book of that game to seeing what’s on TH-cam, and you’re going over Gabrielle/Yolande.
Just a warning: If you decide to download the game, a heads up that the storylines can get DARK. The Gotham Memoirs book is set in about 1930 and includes a mafia asshole who traffics children, not at all what you’d expect from something that looks like a colorful dress-up game, but it is very well done. Anyway. Back to business.
The reality is Versailles was a den of iniquity. Put that many people together with excess of luxury it is bound to turn into sin city. Though much propaganda/ gossip was circulated about the Royal family and their monstrously extensive courtiers the fact is Antoinette bought the Polignacs and many others to amuse her. Not only did she clear their debts move them down the halls from her, raise them to rank of Dukedom she became obsessed with both of them. Polignac was a strange woman who frankly knew nothing about court and lived in the middle of nowhere for most of her life. Her soft grained beauty, weird eyes mildness and genial ignorance not to mention gorgeous soldier husband is exactly was why the teenage Antoinette bought her as a friend. It didn’t take long for the Polignacs to become controllers of the court and of course they were resented and this heaped on more disgust for Antoinette aka “L’ Austrichenne”. The Polignacs second son became later Prime Minister under Charles X and was granted a Princedom. He also was ridiculously good looking. In fact many believe the Polignacs at that introduction just slept their way into court. Like many many other historical families did in such times. At either rate Polignac she survived the Revolution running away to Switzerland , Italy and then Austria. She dropped dead in 1793 from cancer abc consumption after years of being sickly. Apparently just after Antoinettes was beheaded. A very strange and almost pointless life really.
Please consider doing a segment on the TAISHO EMPRESS OF JAPAN, Emperor Hirohito's MOTHER, who reportedly dominated him and urged him to keep WWII going despite everything.
Pause..wait up just a min.. New fan here.🌈☔..I know he's not forgotten, but, will you give us the history of Napoleon Bonaparte?? ..please🗼⭐💔💜 He was an interesting guy no doubt!!
I always find the french royal court interesting. With Marie Antoinette it's sadly a comedy of errors....if only they took a different coach, or if only the necklace affair never happened.
What such an amazing narration of the countess and the French Revolution and life at court. Simple fascinating with a sad end. Thanks for your hard work FL.
The citizens of France, addicted to bread, hence wheat, refused alternative crops as solutions to chaotic climate issues including excessive rainfall, thus leading to crop failure.
Poor thing, i disturbed her rest by mistakenly identifying something similar to the Baths of England where some of the other emigres had the opportunity to cross the path of comte d'artois, the future King Charles X, who may or may not have had a fondness for such places as the Towers of the Knights Templar, the fate of which was decided by the Emperor Napoleon I as having outlived their usefulness as no longer being able to reveal the secrets of the Crusades.
Yes Gabrielle have had cancer but I guess due to heartbreak of knowing that Marie Anton was sentenced to death it could had made her condition worse thus she succumed to an untimely death. So telling that She died due to heartbreak is somehow not wrong.
I get the impression that the facts of that mysterious beauty are known but by a few; similar to Swiss Bank accounts, the land in which she was ultimately laid to rest years after the French Revolutionary Era. She could have been involved in the traumatic link between the Queen and her Mother which began to get desperate when some things were summarily dismissed as BAGATELLES. They had to have that last little scapegoat. The Queen's brother-in-law was a legitimate Prince of the Blood who had very likely attracted 'beaucoup d'attencion' of the favorable type from birth, being good natured, until the lights began to dim near the edge of the carpet after bad weather, drought, etc. She , Mademoiselle Polignac, was a relatively new face amongst the cabals of the nobility, and undoubtedly one to gather favorable compliments.
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Wonderful job as always!! You do an incredible job of not only telling the history but also helping us see each person as a life not terribly different than our own lives. Thank you for your hard work!!!
I'm so impressed by how these videos are produced. They look like a professional history channel would be producing them, especially the way the history is told. It's very engaging.
It seems anyone surrounded by Marie was tragic
Honestly yea. They seem have met a gruesome end
Not only did Marie Antoinette have a tragic ending to her life but her friend as well. ☹ Even though Marie Antoinette has been dead almost 230 years people are still mentioning her. I wonder if she could ever imagine this would be the case during her life?
I would think any Queen in history knows that history will forever know and talk about them. One of the many perks of being born a Royal let alone a Queen
Very wise question. During the early years of her life, being among the younger children of Empress Maria Theresia, MA could not have known about her future. She was likely to become the consort of some higher-ranking Bohemian or Hungarian aristocrat, or the abbess of some convent affiliated to the Imperial Household. But then everything changed. Being the Consort Queen of one of the most important Kings within the Christian World was per se an unexpected turn of the fate.
Usually Consort Queens were not expected to have an active life or to leave a legacy, but to patronize a bit the arts and deliver Royal Children. The Queens remembered by history were de facto sovereign (Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots) or Queens Regent (Catherine de' Medici, Marie de' Medici). And then we have the special section of the "scandalous queens", which included Semiramis, Cleopatra, Roman empresses like Messalina and Agrippina minor, up to Catherine de Medici. But the life of Marie Antoinette was beyond the life of any queen who lived before her: it was like a very intense novel where all the aspects of life are involved, plus with a tragic ending. She received so much calumny, that after so many years what were mere rumours are considered historical truths.
I think perhaps she was aware that the smear campaign she was victim of would have had a long-lasting impact, perhaps she was not aware it would have been so long. For sure she was not aware that she would have got the icon status and there would have been so many books, movies, even Japanese anime, about her.
@@evearcana2392 Actually not, history is made of many forgotten lives (no pun intended), and kings and queens are among them. Only those who accomplished remarkable things or died violently were likely to be remembered.
Everything considered she was really lucky
What is truly ironic is nothing was expected of her initially. Her mother decided not to educate Marie Antoinette like her older sisters. She and Maria Carolina were not raised to be Queens whereas their older sisters were. Funny cause they're the only two who became Queens. Little did the fifteenth child of the Empress know she would be her most famous child. Her fate is known globally.
Amazing paintings of her! I bet she died from both, she had cancer and the loss of Marie Antoinette was probably too much, and perhaps gave her nothing to go on for! Great history! Thanks!
I could listen to you talk all day.
I'm fascinated by the whole Louis timeframe. From XIII to XVI and the Revolution. They spent lavishly and were pretty clueless about governing.
I reckon that was the best, most personal video of Gabrielle, her husband and friendship with Marie Antoinette to date. You always bring your subjects to life. Brilliant work, cheers.
I enjoyed this video about the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was a very interesting woman in a variety of aspects other than her friendship with the Queen. Love the historical investigation of your featured subjects, as well.
I love the background music. It was calming but not over powering. Thank you for all your stories and the hard work that goes into them.
I love the connection you bring to forgotten, influential lives. Still waiting for one on Jacques Cartier or Samuel De Champlain, very important figures in Canadian History!
Wow! That couldn't be better time for me FLives. Ready to listen to another one of your amazing narration story! Thank you
Thanks as always!!
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You are very welcome FLives! Thank you!
Looking at some of your older stuffs great 👍
Rainier of Monaco is Gabrielle’s great great great grandson from her youngest son. Thus,the present princely of Monaco are her direct descendants
The old adage holds true , you do learn something new everyday!
Love the channel, and thank you for bringing history back to life . 🙂
I requested this topic a few weeks ago and I'm so excited to watch the video! Thank you for making such fascinating and entertaining content!!! ✨
It's my first time seeing your face, and I must say, I was taken aback for a bit. You are quite a handsome young man. Thank you for another great video.
Superb as always you bring history and people to life, very well produced and narrated. 👍
Thanks :)
I've been waiting for this since you covered one of Marie's other confidantes in a video not too long ago! thank you!! edit: she and the princesse de lamballe shared a birthday!
Beautiful video. You're right, she was just a product of her times, her persona was just used by the propaganda to epitomize the aristocratic lifestyle and the practice of favouritism within the court.
Yessssss. Love your work and channel
Thank you for another great story. Really enjoyed it. I appreciate all the work you put into your stories.
Yes, Gabrielle was dying of cancer, but I believe that her death was hastened when she learned the tragic news of Antoinette's execution.
Really enjoy these videos. I love History, I think it is important no matter where you are from, it help with the perception of things. Very well done! Just with the info given, it makes me want to look more into the subjects talked about.
You are so good at this!
Perhaps I can interest you in the story of the famous painter madame vigee lebrun, if you can and have the time do consider making a video about her
Thank you for making this - fascinating figure in history
I enjoy your narration so much. However, I've noticed a small error in detail in this video which seems worth mentioning: Marie Antoinette was certainly not the brother of Joseph II. She was his sister. 4:18 Have listened to this several times to be sure I heard that right. I'm sure that this was just a case of mis-speaking, and will look forward to more videos.
Another good historic figure would be Sor Juana Inés de
La Cruz. Such a amazing and tragic life. Great video by The way!!
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Perfect! sitting down to a late lunch and this! Groovy!
We need a Netflix series on her 💕
I love this guy. Great narration and pronunciation.
I found this video particularly interesting because I've been lucky enough to have visited all the places mentioned.... I really liked the picture of the hall of mirrors... It was really something to walk down that hall.
An interesting time... and narrated extremely well...Thanks.
I’ve been there, too. It was a remarkable place to tour!
@@lynnhoffmann247 I didn't mind looking in those mirrors but would have hated to clean them. I think there were tall windows in between the mirrors, so that you could look out onto the beautiful gardens. What an experience. 👌
@@pinklady3885 Yes, on the outside row of mirrors . I never thought about having to clean them 😂 We also went to Norte Dame that day - I watched the fire there on the news in horror.
@@lynnhoffmann247 Ditto... 😁I also went to Notre Dame... so huge and dark... I too, feel distressed about the fire... I'm not thinking its retrievable? I hope it is.
@@pinklady3885 They will rebuild, but of course it won’t be the same, historically.
This was a sad one. And the queen’s necklace is said to be so valuable.
Engaging, well presented herstory. Much appreciation for your inspired broadcasts.
Love your historical videos. Thank you.
Thanks :)
I must say, it's a bit difficult if she deserved to be as Marie Antoinette. Its easy to say shes guilty by association, but she certainly doesnt seem to be as tone deaf towards the economic crisis as Marie Antoinette was. Although there's a good chance she didnt really care to know. Either way you look at it she was definitely one of the more fortunate aristocrats who escaped the carnage.
Marie Antoinette wasn’t actually that “tone deaf” as people say. She was incredibly generous to charities and even had her children donate all their Christmas presents to poor children once. Stories about her were made up or got exaggerated to fuel the revolution and she was lumped in with all the other royals and aristocrats. Even though she was “queen” she had such a small amount of influence, and wasn’t even really allowed to schedule her own pee breaks, let alone able to help with the financial crisis. Even if she had lived as a near pauper in the palace, they still would have cut off her head and found a way to justify it.
@@Sam-nz3vj Fair assessment, I'd have to do my own research on that though. France was a total crapshoot nonetheless
@@Sam-nz3vj True, lots of folks who are taught about her don't even know the many aristocracts and nobility that also spends the tax money, the revolutionaries made her into a ruthless greedy ignorant figure when she's the opposite of that,
It's even more twisted when you realized she wasn't trying to mock or pretend to be the poor when Hameau de la Reine was built, she was merely trying to escape the heavily watched Versailles for a while, but the revolutionaries spun the story of her wanting a cozy place to rest to her *pretending to be the poor* when if you even think about it for a second it makes no sense, the place is supposed to be hidden from the public view until the aristocratic politicians uses the peasants anger/hunger tells about it to fuel the revolution, who is she trying to impress by pretending to be poor if she never wanted to be seen by many during those times? Nobody, she did many things that are considered the opposite of French royal custom at the time, including Louis XVI, they are very most likely offended by that more than anything
@@Sam-nz3vjwell said; thank you! They were doomed regardless; the court was corrupted with useless aristocrats.
Such amazing quality ypur videos are. If i remember correctly. Your brother sent me to your channel when you 1st started it. He was right you certainly never disappoint!
I do enjoy your videos, you’re a good story teller.
This channel is really wonderful and informative 😌☺️
Would love to see you do a video on Marie Antoinette also, I’ve loved the videos on her social circle - would love one focused on her and her kids :)
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Thanks :)
Well done Mr. Thanks!
it was nice to see the face behind this addictive voice.
your videos really assisted me too teach history
I'm always fascinated by the lives of the French court. Not many from the time were spared loss of some kind be it material or physical or emotional. Very nicely done. A suggestion: Luce, de la Tour du Pin. Continued success!
She was truly a beautiful lady. Had she remained in France, she would have shared the fate of her predecessor, the Princesse de Lamballe.
I really do you like & appreciate the beginning of every video with the fingerprint.
It's very nostalgic for me. It reminds me of my childhood in the nineties watching shows like Cops & Unsolved Mysteries °~.☆.~°
I like your work .
Watching from France 🇫🇷
You are so handsome! Your videos are so well done! You obviously put considerable time and effort into these gems. Thank you!
I truly enjoy your historic videos… fine work 🤌🏽
The wealth of art that you also display in your videos is the special treasure °~.☆.~°
Thank you!
Cant believe when you first started told you god would bless you...my dad is blessing me n god is with this cancer,,god bless N🤗🤕😌😌😌😇😇😇
"The common people of France were suffering from harvest failures" that were caused, in part, by their refusal to change or rotate crops at a time most other places were doing it because 'this is how we have always done it'; they failed to listen to the king who urged his people to plant potatoes - they refused, believing some ridiculous fairy tale about potatoes being poisonous or hexed by the devil - the 'people' were definitely not blameless in the cause of societies woes; they were pig-headed and refused to take any steps to improve the crop output/acre which was one of the lowest in all of Europe despite having the best soil.
Excellent! Thank you!:-) 🖖
Beautiful art and narration what a tragic story !
Her husband Jules de Polignac received from Catherine II an estate in Ukraine, where he lived happily for almost 20 more years; he died on September 21, 1817 in St. Petersburg.
Thank you for sharing a most interesting life snippet from the French Royalty. Very interesting.
Always SO interesting.love these videos thanks so much
Love your stuff.
How ironic. I play a game (I swear this is relevant to this video!!) with an absolutely stupid name called Time Princess that sounds like a silly dress-up game, but is really a choose-your-own-adventure where the stakes include death. It’s quite something. There are a couple dozen stories you can play. Anyway, one of the books is called Queen Marie, and in it, her best friend is based on Yolandre de Palastron, though she’s caled Gabrielle in it instead of Yolande (as makes sense). That story includes Lafayette, Fersen, Madame Beaumont (a person assigned male at birth who was later allowed to live as a woman, and even given money from the crown to assemble a new female wardrobe...after her death, a medical examination showed physical characteristics of both sexes, indicating probably intersex), and others who really existed. In that story, you’re trying to avoid getting your head cut off.
Anyway, I’m kinda addicted and find it very amusing that I went from playing the Queen Marie book of that game to seeing what’s on TH-cam, and you’re going over Gabrielle/Yolande.
Just a warning: If you decide to download the game, a heads up that the storylines can get DARK. The Gotham Memoirs book is set in about 1930 and includes a mafia asshole who traffics children, not at all what you’d expect from something that looks like a colorful dress-up game, but it is very well done. Anyway. Back to business.
This game sounds really interesting! I’m intrigued. Also, your profile picture is lovely.
i haven't long download that game (just started playing Queen Marie), i really like the whole chose your own adventure.
i play that game too and yes, when I saw this video, I had to watch it too!
I play that game as well! I finished the queen Marie book last year, but recently started playing a mini story about Gabrielle in the app.
Very good video. You definitely did your research.
FABULOUS! Thank you so much! Rose Bertain would be an excellent subject.
Am I the first this time? I'm on fire today.
A very small slow burning fire but fire none the less
Thank you! Very interesting.
Prince Albert of Monaco daughter name is Gabriella. Maybe named after her ancestor.
Another great story.
She’s so pretty!!!
Great video!
Not sure what's sexier, your amazing narratives or your handsome face! 😍
Trying to catch up on your greattttttt stories
The reality is Versailles was a den of iniquity. Put that many people together with excess of luxury it is bound to turn into sin city. Though much propaganda/ gossip was circulated about the Royal family and their monstrously extensive courtiers the fact is Antoinette bought the Polignacs and many others to amuse her. Not only did she clear their debts move them down the halls from her, raise them to rank of Dukedom she became obsessed with both of them. Polignac was a strange woman who frankly knew nothing about court and lived in the middle of nowhere for most of her life. Her soft grained beauty, weird eyes mildness and genial ignorance not to mention gorgeous soldier husband is exactly was why the teenage Antoinette bought her as a friend. It didn’t take long for the Polignacs to become controllers of the court and of course they were resented and this heaped on more disgust for Antoinette aka “L’ Austrichenne”. The Polignacs second son became later Prime Minister under Charles X and was granted a Princedom. He also was ridiculously good looking. In fact many believe the Polignacs at that introduction just slept their way into court. Like many many other historical families did in such times. At either rate Polignac she survived the Revolution running away to Switzerland , Italy and then Austria. She dropped dead in 1793 from cancer abc consumption after years of being sickly. Apparently just after Antoinettes was beheaded. A very strange and almost pointless life really.
Please consider doing a segment on the TAISHO EMPRESS OF JAPAN, Emperor Hirohito's MOTHER, who reportedly dominated him and urged him to keep WWII going despite everything.
Pause..wait up just a min.. New fan here.🌈☔..I know he's not forgotten, but, will you give us the history of Napoleon Bonaparte?? ..please🗼⭐💔💜
He was an interesting guy no doubt!!
My great great grandfather wrote about the de Polignac who fought for the South in the American civil war.
Another trip to the french court? Nice!
Wonderful
Great stuff thx
What goes up must come down, that is the law of gravity.
Fun fact: she is the ancestor of current prince of Monaco
I always find the french royal court interesting. With Marie Antoinette it's sadly a comedy of errors....if only they took a different coach, or if only the necklace affair never happened.
I watch documentaries like this because of fgo
So many servants that has tragic past like Jeanne and Marie
What such an amazing narration of the countess and the French Revolution and life at court. Simple fascinating with a sad end. Thanks for your hard work FL.
The citizens of France, addicted to bread, hence wheat, refused alternative crops as solutions to chaotic climate issues including excessive rainfall, thus leading to crop failure.
Serge de Bourbon-Orleans!!!
Yup the Royal Family of Monaco are some of her descendants
Could you do a video of Eleanor, Duchess of Glouchester?
Serge de Pontigniac!!!
To be perfectly honest it seems those who were surrounded by Marie were met by a gruesome end!!
OoOoh old timey besties
I may be guessing here but isn't she an ancestor of the Royal Family of Monaco
The Captain Hyacinthe has a baphomet on his lapel. Anyone else catch that?
Absence makes the heart grow FONDER is the saying, I believe, LOL.
I really like the stories of the ppl that lived in the “background” like the dutchess
Poor thing, i disturbed her rest by mistakenly identifying something similar to the Baths of England where some of the other emigres had the opportunity to cross the path of comte d'artois, the future King Charles X, who may or may not have had a fondness for such places as the Towers of the Knights Templar, the fate of which was decided by the Emperor Napoleon I as having outlived their usefulness as no longer being able to reveal the secrets of the Crusades.
There was also another one who was tortured by the people...
So many like her had a tragic end.
Yes Gabrielle have had cancer but I guess due to heartbreak of knowing that Marie Anton was sentenced to death it could had made her condition worse thus she succumed to an untimely death. So telling that She died due to heartbreak is somehow not wrong.
Loool she was born on my birthdayy( exactly 254 years before me) ( idk what to feel 😂)
I get the impression that the facts of that mysterious beauty are known but by a few; similar to Swiss Bank accounts, the land in which she was ultimately laid to rest years after the French Revolutionary Era. She could have been involved in the traumatic link between the Queen and her Mother which began to get desperate when some things were summarily dismissed as BAGATELLES. They had to have that last little scapegoat. The Queen's brother-in-law was a legitimate Prince of the Blood who had very likely attracted 'beaucoup d'attencion' of the favorable type from birth, being good natured, until the lights began to dim near the edge of the carpet after bad weather, drought, etc. She , Mademoiselle Polignac, was a relatively new face amongst the cabals of the nobility, and undoubtedly one to gather favorable compliments.