And ironically, she fled from the excessive glamour of a queen. In the Petit Trianon, she wore muslins and loosened hair. She wanted a life far more natural than she was supposed to. She was a fan of Rousseau and wanted a different life for her children. When she wore muslin for an official portrait, she was damned for her lack of understanding her position. But when she wore the gowns and jewels of a queen, she was damned by the public for her expenses. She was seldom in a winning position. Read Antonia Fraser’s biography of her. It’s incredible.
She was condemned for wearing cotton because the French silk weavers were a very powerful organization… her clothing was a walking advertisement for French industry.
Sounds like an interesting book, I must read it. I dicovered last year through Genealogy that Marie Antoinette is my cousin on my mom's side. It was unfair the way they killed her."
Nice video, BUT if the title is about something (here the wedding dress), so the video should be about it ("designer", material, costs of production, how long it took to make it, how heavy was it, what was the response back then, what happened with it, is there a replika to be seen today, where and so on), and not about everything possible around it. Which is not bad, but it is not the topic of the video. Titles matter ;). Anyway, thanks for posting, please take my notes as constructive criticism and not as dead sentence :). Good look with your future videos!
@@IrishAnnie Not really. The average life expectancy was lower because of child mortality. But if you made it through, you were likely to live a normal lifetime.
The hall of mirrors is not the Royal Chapel she may have passed through this on the way to the Chapel. She then would have gone through the herculean salon then down stairs along the corridor passing the opera house to enter the Chapel. If she had gone down the Queens stair case she would need to have crossed the cour du marbe and enter thr doirs under the kings study. I have done both when visiting Versailles and the latter is the shorter route it is most unlikely the way she went
The wedding dresses of that time are often remade into other dresses for the queen. It was wasteful to keep the dress for one use as a momento for one day of life. It was a practice during the days of Princess Charlotte of Wales who was heir apparent before Queen Victoria"s birth.
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution - Illustrated, October 2, 2007 by Caroline Weber - really the only accurate book on this subject.
Why are people being so rude about the narrators age. After all Europeans spent countless centuries crowning children as monarchs of entire nations surely you can handle a mere monologue. Seriously people get a grip on reality and yourselves.
Josephine Bonaparte was a style icon. Much better. We could wear her gowns today. To my mind she epitomizes the French couture. The era of Marie Antoinette"s clothes is impractical, overpowering and will always remain old-fashioned and pretentious.
pour le mariage du dauphin Louis Auguste et de Marie -Antoinette , Louis XV a fait construire par son architecte Gabriel, l’opéra Royal au château de Versailles, ainsi que la place de la Concorde qui était la place Louis XV avant la révolution française. Les fournisseurs pour le mariage, on mis 20 ans à être payé en totalité, tellement Louis XV à dépenser de l’argent pour montrer à l’Europe entière entière le faste de la cour de France
I believe you to be a most engaged individual ( truly wonderful) I do, however, ask that you get your facts and opinions of history under control. There has never been a royal bride of France who walked down the hall of mirrors before her vows. Hence. She entered the chapel of Versailles...ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
Huge pockets were actually the standard for ladies of the time, with them only going out of style at the end of the century due to the narrow skirts popularized by the neoclassical movement. Certain styles of panniers doubled as pocket bags, even.
If she had deep Christian values helping the poor, the needy, using her influence as queen things would not have happened to them igniting French Revolution ?
She & the king were both kids. He wasn't much older than her. They didn't rule the country, the surrounding lords & parliamentary higher ups basically ruled the country. The king & this princess were basically their puppets.
I recommend Fact Feast they actually talk about the real people and not the aristocrats that have been overdone. No one cares about the poor these aristocrats failed. History Debunked is great too.
You don't have to be a certain age to talk about what you like I think. Plus being younger doesn't mean that whatever you're saying is wrong, it's not a matter of age but a matter of knowledge and hard work, which go hand in hand, in my opinion.
And ironically, she fled from the excessive glamour of a queen. In the Petit Trianon, she wore muslins and loosened hair. She wanted a life far more natural than she was supposed to. She was a fan of Rousseau and wanted a different life for her children. When she wore muslin for an official portrait, she was damned for her lack of understanding her position. But when she wore the gowns and jewels of a queen, she was damned by the public for her expenses. She was seldom in a winning position. Read Antonia Fraser’s biography of her. It’s incredible.
The French hated an Austrian. Hated.
❤❤❤❤
She was condemned for wearing cotton because the French silk weavers were a very powerful organization… her clothing was a walking advertisement for French industry.
She was damned if she did , and damned if she didn't.
Sounds like an interesting book, I must read it. I dicovered last year through Genealogy that Marie Antoinette is my cousin on my mom's side.
It was unfair the way they killed her."
Nice video, BUT if the title is about something (here the wedding dress), so the video should be about it ("designer", material, costs of production, how long it took to make it, how heavy was it, what was the response back then, what happened with it, is there a replika to be seen today, where and so on), and not about everything possible around it. Which is not bad, but it is not the topic of the video. Titles matter ;).
Anyway, thanks for posting, please take my notes as constructive criticism and not as dead sentence :). Good look with your future videos!
Wow, what a stunning dress! It still boggles the mind how girls were married off so young.
It was about alliances and politics, not sex, as in Islam.
Life expectancy was much lower than it is now.
@@IrishAnnie Not really. The average life expectancy was lower because of child mortality. But if you made it through, you were likely to live a normal lifetime.
It’s still happening…
Most women didn't live long in those days, death by child bearing kinda didn't allow for longevity.
1:17 It is the wedding dress of Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden
Her dress says back up imma need like 6ft. I love it!!!
She practiced social distancing before it became cool. 😂
I stayed at the Trianon Palace Hotel. Didn’t get to stay in the main building, but it was gorgeous.
Hi, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing have a great day see you next video 😊
Thank you!
The hall of mirrors is not the Royal Chapel she may have passed through this on the way to the Chapel. She then would have gone through the herculean salon then down stairs along the corridor passing the opera house to enter the Chapel. If she had gone down the Queens stair case she would need to have crossed the cour du marbe and enter thr doirs under the kings study. I have done both when visiting Versailles and the latter is the shorter route it is most unlikely the way she went
Im sorry but that thing is absolutely horrendous. It looks like a sofa
That was the fashion then.
I enjoyed that. It was well done and to the point. I wonder what happened to the dress and all those diamonds.
It would've been dismantled and turned into other articles, and the diamonds made into other jewelry.
Interesting
Where is the dress now ,?????😊
The wedding dresses of that time are often remade into other dresses for the queen. It was wasteful to keep the dress for one use as a momento for one day of life. It was a practice during the days of Princess Charlotte of Wales who was heir apparent before Queen Victoria"s birth.
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution - Illustrated, October 2, 2007
by Caroline Weber - really the only accurate book on this subject.
Why are people being so rude about the narrators age. After all Europeans spent countless centuries crowning children as monarchs of entire nations surely you can handle a mere monologue. Seriously people get a grip on reality and yourselves.
She hid a 52 in screen in that dress.
Queen Victoria chose a white dress and the rest is history. Everyone married in white has a bit of an Anglican history in them. ❤
Josephine Bonaparte was a style icon. Much better. We could wear her gowns today. To my mind she epitomizes the French couture. The era of Marie Antoinette"s clothes is impractical, overpowering and will always remain old-fashioned and pretentious.
Who cares ?
pour le mariage du dauphin Louis Auguste et de Marie -Antoinette , Louis XV a fait construire par son architecte Gabriel, l’opéra Royal au château de Versailles, ainsi que la place de la Concorde qui était la place Louis XV avant la révolution française.
Les fournisseurs pour le mariage, on mis 20 ans à être payé en totalité, tellement Louis XV à dépenser de l’argent pour montrer à l’Europe entière entière le faste de la cour de France
Please increase your this industry business please sir please
I believe you to be a most engaged individual ( truly wonderful)
I do, however, ask that you get your facts and opinions of history under control.
There has never been a royal bride of France who walked down the hall of mirrors before her vows. Hence. She entered the chapel of Versailles...ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
Much more and better, research is required.
this isn't the gown Queen Sofia of Sweden wore this
Her dress was perfect for Kim Kardashian...tiny waist and six foot hips 😂😮 but I have some respect for Marie Antoinette
I think panniers were one of the ugliest fashions of all time.
Well you're wrong.
I guess, if you can’t have pockets, a shelf will do. The slightest misstep resulted in ridicule Nothing has changed
Huge pockets were actually the standard for ladies of the time, with them only going out of style at the end of the century due to the narrow skirts popularized by the neoclassical movement. Certain styles of panniers doubled as pocket bags, even.
If she had deep Christian values helping the poor, the needy, using her influence as queen things would not have happened to them igniting French Revolution ?
She & the king were both kids. He wasn't much older than her. They didn't rule the country, the surrounding lords & parliamentary higher ups basically ruled the country. The king & this princess were basically their puppets.
The problem was Marie was only a child and should not have been married
Meghan Markle needs to wear a dress like this!!!!
Why?
@@milacolman why not?? She would look amazing!!
Markle would look ridiculous, like in her usual dresses that never fit and are unflattering for her figure.
@@annikarewelo2665 I disagree! This should have been Megan's wedding dress!!!
@@annikarewelo2665 you cannot tell me a designer could not tailor this to fit her perfectly!!
Pontoons
Looks like she's wearing a piece of furniture.
Another child narrator…..
Taaa love
Isn’t it supposed to be the male of the species that fluff themselves up to look bigger, better, prettier, healthier? Where did we go wrong.
Absolutely ridiculous costume
Do we have to have a schoolgirl teaching history? Do find a grown up. An interesting subject, but cannot listen.
Want to volunteer?
I love the way the narrator sounds! That was rude!
I recommend Fact Feast they actually talk about the real people and not the aristocrats that have been overdone. No one cares about the poor these aristocrats failed.
History Debunked is great too.
You don't have to be a certain age to talk about what you like I think. Plus being younger doesn't mean that whatever you're saying is wrong, it's not a matter of age but a matter of knowledge and hard work, which go hand in hand, in my opinion.
It would be nice if one would cover the real people of the past, not just the same old tired aristocrats.
It's Pronounced ROYAL, Not VOIAL!! R not V!!