Marie Antoinette - The Downfall & Death of a Queen Documentary
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Why were the doors closed to the people, if Louis didn’t have anything to do with it?
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The French financial problems were also part due to their helping support and fight the American Revolution. Their armies, Calvary and Navy made American independence possible.
They was scape goats
Many Americans are still greatful for France sending all the assistance to help us acquire freedom.
Amazing karma imo; spend all your gold funding a revolution and have nothing left to fight against your own lmao
Actually yes, that's the original fact.
Yup. I agree... (Though if you want to play a game of historical "What If", if the American Revolution was actually LOST, would you believe there just would have been another one later on.....Even without France's help?? I think there would have been one....My guess would be no more than 50 years later.)
It must be terrifying enough to be the only person to die in a huge group of people, who are watching it happen, but to have to face it THAT alone, with so many people jeering and cheering the most brutal moment of your life. I cant imagine
Good point. And the WAY this lady met her death should COMMAND respect!! U.S. NAVY SEALS should perhaps follow a gal with "balls" like this....I think AC/DC must have been singing about HER in that song of theirs:
"🎶Shes got BAAALLLS..."🎶🤣😶
@@jebidiahnewkedkracker1801 They don't need to, they're plenty tough themselves.
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 Yes, they are tough, (VERY TOUGH), no doubt about it. I was basically taking SOME "poetic license" with my comment....But only SOME....Because a gal like Marie Antoinette that grew up in a pampered and protected environment that was not used to deprivation in ANY form, sure met her execution with a dignity that should perhaps bring a TEAR to people's eyes....How many of the very mob that executed her would go out like she did??? A Navy Seal probably WOULD go out with class and dignity, but Marie Antoinette was NOT anything CLOSE to a "Navy Seal".
Dying alone is quick. To live a lifetime as such is a torture.
Even worse every one there hates you based on mostly lies
“I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you took away my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.”
Marie Antoinette
very sad indeed
@@ottomeyer6928 Indeed it is as she lost everything her crown, her husband, her children, and eventually her head
She actually never said that. That's another myth, too. Also, she faked her death. The entire revolution was fake.
@@henryford2950 source? Or can you please elaborate?
@@henryford2950 Her legacy lived on with her son, pretty sure he ended up in North Carolina.
I feel like I have watched every documentary there is about Marie Antoinette, and I will absolutely always watch anything new about her.
Same😂
Me too!!
She's an ancestor of mine, not direct though obviously
But there in lies the problem isn’t it ? I was thinking about this today . I too have seen every documentary I can find on Marie Antoinette and other historical figures . There is never anything really new . It’s always the same information just presented a little different . It’s disappointing after a while because I want to be wowed and fascinated and have new insights and never before heard information. However it’s unfortunately what happens with people who lived long ago
@Star Nah.
Her daughter Marie Therese suffered the most IMO. She was left alone to live on with the pain of loosing all her family . She collapsed with PTSD when she went back to Paris as a young adult. The horror and the grief was almost too much.
I can only imagine 😢 that poor girl
‘losing’ all her family. & yes, I agree! I cannot imagine how lost she felt.
*losing. One O.
She did not suffer the most. She got to live. I'm sure her brother would have loved to trade places with her. Don't be silly.
@@meghanmisaliarYou completely missed the point. She did suffer the most, because unlike her family who passed, she was forced to live on with the grief. Imagine what she went through having to grow up without her family.
She was a pawn by her mother's dynasty, A scapegoat of French nobility and aristocracy, A sacrificial lamb for the public rage and discontent.
Queen Marie Antoinette arrived in France already hated and branded. By researching the Court history I found that no matter what she did (right or wrong) there was always one or other faction that either approved or was displeased with her and used this displeasure to further their own political or selfish goals. Queen Marie Antoinette had the misfortune to live in a time of absolutism when the time for absolutism was over. A time of when excess was demanded of Royalty but socially disapproved off e.g. the infamous chemise de la reine where simplicity was denounce in favour of silk. I believe Dickens was spot on when he wrote that it was the best of time and it was the worst of times. It was a time when right became wrong and wrong became right. A most difficult time, almost like today.
France supported US independence, and was later shafted by them. Worse, the US leaned towards England instead of France. This bankrupted France, and made things very bad.
That's all the more reason why she should not have been so unnecessarily ostentatious and extravagant in the best of times and the worst of times... that is a time of prudence and descrecion I would think...
All government lies
She eventually came to appreciate her history lessons 😂
@@jacobgeorge2998 She wasn't hated and branded. You are all stupid. The French Revolution was in truth a thickened coup d'État of Parliament! The hated Gouvernment
Such a great and well researched documentary! There aren't enough documentaries in the English language on The French Royals, imo. I am very drawn towards French Royal history, especially Louis XIV and building Versailles and Marie Antoinette, too! Please, consider doing more on all of the French Royals. Your documentaries are the Gold Standard here on The Tube!
Thanks again!
Those who speak French will find other very interesting videos from Louis XIV to Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and her children on the You Tube channel - Secrets d'Histoire
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Just Lies
Yes please! I request more stories about the french.
"I was a queen and you took away my crown, a wife and you took away my husband, a mother and you took away my children; my blood alone remains, takes it if you wish but do not make me suffer long!"
- Last True Queen of France: Marie Antoinette
Are we really free from Taxation now?
People went from paying for lavish royal lifestyles to paying for lavish political spending. They just changed who their masters were.
This is one of the best documentaries about Marie Antoinette, that I have ever seen. It has so much humanity in it, it makes everything so alive and I feel so much pain for the poor queen... Also a big thank u to the narrater. You do have the perfect voice. I really enjoyed this🙂
As a ( half ) Frenchman who studied the History of Grandes Siecles I think its important to understand a few things. Louis XV statement 'Apres moi le Deluge' was stated due to his having left a financially & morally bankrupt state and court. The four old Aunts were Old Maids due to Louis XV refusing to let them marry. They were mean and jealous gossips. Louis 16 was a good man & a lousy King. Antoinette was a beautiful Queen who had no protection from her weak husband. There was an established way of talking and acting amongst the aristos at Versailles which is much darker than but not dissimilar to gay men of the recent past bitching and putting others down. The ' womens ' marche en Versailles was actually led by the royal cousin the Duc d'Orleons and other nobles in drag. That Marie-Therese , with 16 children , was an absolute failure as a mother. No sex ed , using her as a spy with Austrian ambassador . The people of France were hungry and were being fed propaganda from Louis younger brother the compte de Province who became Louis 18th briefly at the restoration. He and his evil wife coveted the throne and without the noblemen and aristocrats help , the revolution wouldn't have happened in such a murderous way. Many of them were guiottined, which is perhaps well deserved for their treachery. The necklace affair had zero to do w Antoinette. It was made for her enemy , LA du Barry and was out of fashion to the younger Queen who found it vulgar. She is not the woman who we are taught that she is. She was an Archduchess of Austria , poorly educated who went to the cattyist court in the world as Dauphine who every lady was jealous of due to her grace , beauty and warm friendliness which did not make her popular.
Very accurate
Very good comment. I remember reading Duc de Saint-Simon's diaries and thinking that the court at Versailles was a shark pool in which far better swimmers have drowned before her. With her lack of prep and intellect, she never stood a chance.
Thanks for your useful comment.
@@elizabethpiatkowska8848Ich glaube nicht , dass Marie Antoinette dumm war, einfach zu jung und naiv... Irgendwie tut sie mir leid..😊
@@__Athena___ Absolutely agree, she was very young and unprepared for the role. As it often happened with youngest children of aristocracy or royalty, nobody cared about her education. She was supposed to be a "back up" and shipped off to a convent, if not married. However she wasn't at all interested in sciences, politics and current affairs while at Court. It was customary for the Enlightenment period, that aristocratic women and Queens supported sciences and arts, and often held so called "Le salons literaires". She was only really focused on fashion and her looks. I am not suggesting she was not intelligent, only that she lacked the intellect required to succeed in her role and her world. This could have been attenuated by her insecure position at Court, as her marriage was not consummated for many years and her position precarious. In contrast, her elder sister Maria Christina, the favourite of Empress Maria Theresa, was very intelligent and astute. She convinced her mother to marry the man she loved which was incredibly unusual in her position and at that time.
Marie Antoinette was a tragic figure. She was uneducated as a child, I would think the Austrian Royal Family had tutors for the male children. She went to France at a young age, I researched the French ladies in Waiting even took away her little dog. She was a tragic figure. Imagine yourself as 12 years old, leaving home to a Country where people hated you already. She made a lot of mistakes as Queen, but went to her death with honor. Peace and Light to her Spirit.❤️🇫🇷❤️
she was ill prepared .. such a tragic figure in history.
She was 14, not 12, and French people had very good reason to hate the Austrians... do more research.
@@booliev3275 Thanks will do!
@@booliev3275 dont be impolite. Troll
@@booliev3275 Yes but they didn't have reasons to hate her personally.
Marie Antoinette was basically a child without anyone to parent her. She was in a terrible situation and totally not equipped to deal with the complexities of court. By the time she grew up it was too late. Poor girl
She arrived at Versailles at 14, the revolution started 20 years later. How long do you need to learn?
@@booliev3275 they already hated her by the time she got her bearings.
She was mature adult when the revolution started. She should have learnt. We all have to do.
@@booliev3275 the monarchies of Europe were being overthrown. She was the scapegoat for the French monarchy
@@booliev3275 She did not have the proper training or education to be able to handle anything that was thrown at her.
Bottom line.
Marie Antoinette was a victim of both time and circumstance; she made mistakes-some of them glaring- but they were mistakes, not acts of callous disregard. She paid a terrible and deeply unfair price.
Many other monarchs in history exploited their citizens in much more cruel & sadistic manner ....Marie Antoinette was inexperienced & thrown into a den of wolves & snakes being only a child...my respect to her for her brave endurance for she had to face many difficult struggles caused by peoples mischief & the loss of her children...I'm sure she never meant to cause anybody any harm...she was just being herself living in a society with very narrow mind set
Very balanced and interesting to watch. I do feel sorry for Marie Antoinette. She had her husband and children taken and finally her own life was taken. Seems so unnecessarily cruel.
@@koontroll3364 of course the starving of the people was awful, but to take Marie’s family and kill her was cruel. And you have to consider how aware was she of the people’s suffering. She was hardly involved in the politics of the time. She was a lavish spender but that was her only crime.
@@kellyolson1952 The starving people ? Well, it depends ... Read Arthur Young's diary about his visit to France in 1789 : he saw gorgeous farms owned by respectful peasants, gorgeous children, plenty of nice workshops where skilled people did an excellent work. Think about what happened to France during the 10 awful years of the Revolution : all the fields, monasteries, craftshops, great industries of fabric and others where sold to anybody who had the money to buy them. The fields were left unkept, the workshops left empty and France was on the merge of famine. The Revolution, for what ? Napoléon Bonaparte ended this by force and crowned himself emperor of France. All this suffering for a new Empire ?
@@misstoujoursplus
May be there was no good reasons for all that violence and radicalism. The problem is that Louis XVI was dominated by a corrupt and arrogant aristocracy. They kept rejecting all sorts of reformations. They even rejected religious freedom, although, it was the least to accept.
Later on, when Louis XVI decreted religious freedom, he was told "too late and not enough". People had become frustrated against him and they just wanted to get rid of the monarchy and the whole aristocratic system.
@@soufienetun8197 You are right about the corrupt and arrogant aristocracy. Louis XVI cancelled awful salt taxes, forbade torture on convicts, made any reformation he could but it was already too late. The aristocracy was so angry about all that, she went so far to pay middle class people (look at their names and status, none of them was poor) to create an uproar amongs the poorest. It's not very difficult to make : you just have to say that the royal army is about to kill the people. And what did those morons ? They killed 3000 innocent people gathered in front of the Bastille prison, which at this time, had only 7 prisoners : a few noblemen in debt and two half witted poor devils.
Marie-Antoinette started without knowing it the hatred of the high society of her time because she didn't like the court etiquette and spent most of her time in Trianon with a few close friends.
It was extremely unnecessary and cruel. No question.
But, you get enough jealous and superstitious people together, and next thing you know, people are dying.
Either way, they were too young for the adult responsibilities that were expected of them.
That was the beginning of the end for them. Sadly.
These were 2 young kids, with no education or training expected to run a country during a time when economic upheaval was present! Learning the French Revolution and about Marie Antoinette in school was always my favourite!
I just cant beleive she had to leave home at seventh grade age. Twelve years old?!!!
Didn't they have advisors?
I've been bingeing your documentaries for 3 days now, thank you for the hard work you all put into educating us. One thing I feel bad for women in history is the care during and after care of childbirth. Time and innovation has changed so much. I have had 5 children, contractions get much worse after each child when the uterus is going back down to its normal size for a while. I can't imagine how the women were able to get through it without the help we have today! I have a low pain threshold so those women are hero's for being able to give birth to so many children!
And the postpartum depression many of them had without the mental health advances and views we have today. I cant imagine neither!
One of the best documentaries on Maria Antoinette that I have seen on TH-cam.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it
The People Profiles have done it again! An excellent biography with background materiel to help us understand her life and times.
I’ve watched quite a number of documentaries on Marie Antoinette and this is one of the best.
It brings human side to this controversial character of the past.
As for your question, one cannot be blamed for the upbringing that didn’t prepare her as a proper queen. However, as she grew older, it would have been her duty and responsibility to learn, adapt and mold herself to fulfill the role she was given - the queen, the mother of the French nation. Yet again, some can blame it on the disregarded upbringing on her to not instill that intelligence and value to improve one’s self and have empathy for others. Her death could be seen as a symbolic eventuality of the opulent and self-centered mindset of the French monarch (from at least King Louis XIV onwards) and the aristocrat class.
Finally a decent comment
@@booliev3275 No-one asked for your opinion. Stop commenting on everyone's opinion. Your just a troll.
I can’t imagine the sadness and loss this poor woman endured. It must’ve been absolutely excruciating. This was a naive and ignorant woman who couldn’t have done anything to help the French people in the way they needed it even if she wanted to. It seems to me that she focused on what she could control… being a wife to a simple man with many complications, and a good mother who did all that she could while maintaining her looks as a dutiful queen. Her story is tragic but one thing I do take from it… in politics, there’s always a scapegoat.
You missed a lot of things... she made very bad decisions before but also during the revolution. She didn't want to help the people of France. She wanted power and privilege.
She was accused of scheming with european ambassadors against the revolution. That was the official accusation of the revolutionary court established by the called Jacobins.
@@booliev3275 tht is false she tried to help she did try to help the poor but those men covered it up Robipierre wanted her dead at any cost she was 14 when she became Queen for God sake
@@soufienetun8197 they proved nothing against her and they never had to murder her or her child which they did
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True, at first the court did not show tangible evidences against her, but, later on, and after her execution, they found some.
I would point out that The Royal Aunts disliked Marie Antoinette from the moment she arrived at Versailles and not because Marie Antoinette did anything. Senior courtiers disliked Marie Antoinette because of the Austrian war, and many, including the aunts, believed she was a spy. The aunts put an act on, pretending to like and support her in an attempt to convince an immature Marie Antoinette to snub notable courtiers favoured by the King, such as Madam Du Barry. The Royal aunts often spread terrible rumours about her and often attempted to bring the marriage down. As Marie Antoinette matured, and could likely see what the aunts had been doing, she ended her relationship with the aunts by saying the simple sentence "There are a lot of people at Versailles today" a sentence she said to Du Barry which brought her favour from Louis XV, ultimately ending the aunts toxic influence over her.
I would also like to point out that "Madam Deficit" was a nickname the Queen gained in the 1780s. In her first few years as Queen she enjoyed immense popularity from an optimistic french public who believed the young King and Queen would make drastic changes to how the country was being governed.
Its also worth pointing out that Marie Antoinette's unpopularity started at Versailles, largely because she began to undo the previously strict court protocols at Versailles, (such as removing the custom of public dining and introducing informal family dining) whilst spending increasing amounts of time away from court at her own private residence. It is also who she decided to spend her time with, people who where not believed to be of high enough rank to be within The Queen's inner circle. This upset senior courtiers who spread viscose rumours which trickled down to the public.
Its also worth mentioning that one of the major contributing factors for her declining popularity was the rumour that the property in Paris, Saint Cloud, was about to be given to her. The thought of a foreigner owning property in Paris which could then be inherited by Joesph II horrified the public at the time.
This is a good video, a bit all over the place, but it misses out the significance of Marie Antoinette's life at court which resulted in her unpopularity, whilst missing parts out such as her huge popularity with the public as Dauphine and her earlier years as Queen.
Those aunts....What a bunch of NASTY "See you next Tuesdays"!!🤬
They assumed she was an a**hole, but they were the a**holes.
Your comments are needlessly critical of an excellent video. Most of the points that you feel are important to point out are hardly significant and worth pointing out
@@andrewparis4060Some of us- like me- appreciate the comment bcuz its a point of view and adds to my uneducated state of mind in regard to this particular passage of history. So - yeah.
Wonderful documentary, very beautifully done, thank you! Marie Antoinette was a victim of the most turbulent times in French history, it was inevitable, she suffered tremendously and in her last years the dignity and sweetness of her trueself was the best advocate to history.
The mere fact that they tried to smear her with incest and bullied her son to try and testify against her, shows how hard they tried to get her killed. Those barbarians,hooligans and pieces of embarrassment to mankind got their wish in the end but as for Marie Antoinette, she'll always be remembered as the innocent child and beautiful queen that she was.
I blame her parents for marring her into the French monarchy.
Thank you very much, very thorough and objective documentary. 1st non French documentary with real research that truly analised Marie Antoinette actions before and during the French revolution that lead to her death. Well done.
analyzed, not analised
@@1bridge11 lol so glad you said that. Very very different things.
Sometimes spelling can be important
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Indeed 😆
Thank you. I really enjoy your documentaries. They always teach me a lot.
How harsh, they were children. Leaders do far worse now-a-days and yet go on to reap great pensions. Thank you for your content, I truly enjoy them.
A tragic story for a poor woman who was wrongly accused and tragically mistreated.
She did not deserve to die the way she did.
How sad.
I think she was victim of the hatred of French people to the Austrians, of the early marriage, and the conspiracy of the revolutionary people. I believe she was kind clever and full of life. She also loved her husband and children
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Why desend when your edicts could be carried out.
Great amaizing European century cultur history nature nice thank you
Beautifully done! Measured, consise and very interesting video. Real pleasure to watch, Thank you!
Thank you so much for narrating this slowly and clearly. Too many rush through the text and words and it's difficult to follow. I .semi retired and now trying to learn more. I appreciate your teaching style. I feel enriched for having watched this. God bless you.
I enjoyed the voice over the documentary. It was very enjoyable to listen to. Thank you for sharing a bit of history.
Poor little Girl! I think Marie Antoinette was just a child. I've raised four children - two girls. And at the ages of 13-19, they require CONSTANT CARE! I can just imagine the pressure, solitude, and lack of parental guidance, compounded by (apparently to her) limitless wealth! She was wronged.
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Exactly she was only a child
Her mother said she didn't care that her children were unhappy as long as they did their duty and married who she told them to marry? With an attitude like that, and so many children, it's a wonder she didn't end up poisoned.
Just like queen victoria. Both full of themselves. I get being a woman back then was hard, especially in power, but it didn’t remind them to be compassionate to their own kids
There didn't need to be compassion. Marriage at court was about politics, keeping power and good will. It was a strategic chess game, without any hint of romantic love involved. Very different than todays view on love marriages.
In that perspective, Maria Theresia was outstandingly successful in marketing her offspring to build alliances within european monarchies.
Watching these documentaries, it's amazing how many people even in the upper classes died before they were 70.
People died around 40, 45 years. In this time. Very poor hygiene also, a lot of diseases come from Europe.
Thank you. My lack of proper vocabulary hinders me from writing a long paragraph of how insightful this documentary has been. Your channel is amazing. I will linger around for quite sometime ❤
Your statement is clear to me. No need for “proper” vocab. 😊
These vids are incredible ,and what you can learn from these profiles makes for extremely interesting viewing ,the research and time it must take to put these profiles together must be quite extensive ..
Extremely well done documentaire.
Many thanks. Bravo 👏
Excellent! I enjoyed it to the fullest. Thank you
There will always be a rift between those in power and those who are not
Answer to final question. It was the disconnect between the common people and those that govern them. They are meant to be an equation. It’s almost like a biorhythm of cycles we go through. Great presentation. Thank You! ❤️🇨🇦
Revolution was inevitable
I’ve been watching Marie Antoinette PBS and totally fascinated. I don’t know much about France. Thank you for this great documentary. It’s funny who quickly the masses will follow the next ‘thing’.
I'm loving this so so much!!!! It's as if we get to meet her and discover her personality. I love that you even describe her accent. I've always been very fond of Queen Marie. I despise her tragic fate and feel as though she was a victim of a deadly political conflict of the time.
She took part of it, she wasn't an innocent victim.
@@booliev3275 troll.
@@diabolicaldebbie he's just a "viva la revolution" troll. Regardless of freedom, straight up murder is never ok. Especially of children. War is one thing. This wasn't war. This was murder. And a kangaroo court trial.
The detail in your documentaries are excellent!
I wonder if Victor Hugo was alive during this time. He wrote Les Miserables which was about a starving man who stole a loaf of bread and got arrested. He ended up in the galleys. He rowed a boat for so long that he became extremely strong. This book, I believe is fiction. I believe that Victor Hugo was inspired by the hungry man of France.
This is another very good video! The quality of your work is outstanding! Thank you so much for creating all of this wonderful content for us
Another dazzling and highlycentertaining bio by the People Profiles. Marie's character is profiled in nuanced ways that have me reassessing what I thought of from past impressions and readings.
Wish you were around when I was in High School.
We watched Kirsten Dunst "Marie Antoinette" movie.
Same😩🤦🏽♀️😂
Shame on teachers who plays movies to teach about history.
@@melodieshaonfoster1467😂🤣. I saw the movie on my own 😆 I knew their was more to her story.
I learned a lot from this well made documentary video…far more than I learned in school. Sadly, the attitude the commoner’s had toward her and her privileged life of royalty, is much the same as that of the general populace toward and government or ruling class of every nation. There is a schism created by manipulation of those in high places, towards those who are less fortunate, poor, uneducated, and perhaps discriminated against despite circumstances they had nothing to cause themselves. That reality is in force even today in the USA, and it has been created and perpetrated by elected officials favored by the people who have the money and influence to keep them in power. THE PEOPLE, are no longer represented; the elite are in power and are the ones who govern to their own benefit. Without completely overturning a system that originally was great, amendments should be made to limit that power by limiting political donations by special interests, and by limiting the terms of congress! History indeed repeats it’s self, and it’s the lust for power and wealth that causes it to continue it perpetuity!
Beautifully said!
They almost made it to safety, If they’d only not hesitated the first time , I wonder what would have happened to France , the people and the monarchy. History is made up of ‘what if’s’ is it not. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍👍👍
Fantastic Documentary. Of ALL the many that I 've seen, regarding Her Royal Highness History, yours is the best narrated, accuratly descrived, vastly covered so many of Her life's events...and consecuences leading to Her ill fated/unjustificated assassination.
Muchas Gracias!
Thanks So Much!
Merci Beaucoup!
Thanks for the upload!
A broken family and a broken system. There is nothing much anyone can do to help when they were so internally corrupted. The couple were put on the pedestal bound for failure since the very beginning. It’s tragic.
I think what ended her life in such a horrific way was her inability to process the concept that the people of France had very real, very concrete needs and she was not fulfilling them. The monarchy and the courtiers were not dealing with the problems and Marie took power and privilege as a natural part of her life, not something that did include the requirement of public service and civic duty. Marie had an excellent example in the being of her mother and it is clear that Marie did not absorb or even want to learn to absorb that there are obligations that come with status. After her marriage and then eventually her accession as Queen Consort, she should have tried to find out the problems of France and should have done her best to engage and assist the people with her near limitless resources at her fingertips. She knew the obligations as royalty and she knew the responsibilities. She knew that she had a duty and she knew she should have been tolerant of the etiquette of the French court/courtiers.
Well you have to remember that she was only 14 years old when she arrived in Versailles. Barely a child, but a child nonetheless. The extreme pressures of the court must have been tremendous and she had very little political power as queen consort. For the first 8 years of her marriage, all of her pressures were revolved around her marital obligations in producing an heir and being a supportive queen. She was philanthropic when she could be, however she was extremely isolated from the everyday French citizen. She was naive at best, and did her duties well as a mother and wife to Louis. The timing of everything was very unfortunate, as Marie was particularly better than past French queens in terms of philanthropy/cultural influence. She didn't deserve her fate, but history caught up with the unsustainable life of Versailles while she was Queen, and the sexism at the time caused all fingers to point at Marie for the country's economic downfall.
Sorry, but she knew absolutely nothing. Nobody told her what to do and the french court at this time had nothing to do with the Austrian court where she was brought up. Even worse : who instigated the french revolution ? Not the poor people, but some of the aristocraty and middle class tenors : only look at the names : comte de Mirabeau, comte Maximilien de Robespierre, Danton (a lawyer), Desmoulins ( a journalist), Marat (journalist), all this people never suffered from hunger, they just wanted to take the place of the king and ALL where killed by other revolutionaries. All this killing spread for what ? After then years of wars and powerty, a new one arised : Napoléon Bonaparte, soon Emperor of France and far more greedy and deadly than Louis XVI ever was. This very good documentary forgot to mention that Louis XVI imported wheat from Russia to help the french people after the desastrous crops of 1787. He abolished also the taxes on salt, taken everywhere in France, included in counties which did not have any salt.
So Agree, she could have chosen to look at the deep issues/anger of common people . But instead she enjoyed her lavish lifestyle.
The French Royal treasury was already depleted considerably by the time that she took her first footsteps in France.
@@Jerseyboondocks True, but Marie knew that as a royal it was her job to engage in civic duty and public service and to cultivate ties with the nobility and also most importantly, learn and maintain self control. She had her mother as a perfect example and her siblings were doing their duty.
Very well researched and excellent narration. I really enjoyed it. Thank you
I'm a Filipino ,,asian but I'm crying the whole day after I watching this 😢
Very sad story.
Well done! I enjoyed the work by Jacques-Louis David - he deserves his own doc.
One of the best Documentary’s I’ve seen ❤
Top notch video! Very well researched and informative. One of the best on Marie Antoinette I’ve ever watched. Thank you’
I found this video after watching the Sofia Coppola film from a few years ago. I was pleasantly surprised that, even though it being quite stylistic, had quite a few accuracies. I definitely recommend watching it, if you havent seen it yet.
I’ve seen it a few times. I don’t like Coppola’s work that much, and this portrayal always just emphasizes that false perception of Antoinette’s.
Few accuracies... very very few. It's a well made movie. But from an historical point of view it is absurd.
@@booliev3275 Have you even watched The Affair of the Necklace by Charlie Shyer? It's barely accurate to Marie Antoinette.
Why in the world didn't anybody in her family try to negotiate to save her life?
I have always wondered that too. By the time she was on trial for her life, both of her brothers had died. Her nephew was the Emperor in Austria, and sadly apparently did not care about his aunt.
Very informative and researched.
You forgot that Axel von Fersen her swedish lover was her lover for her last years in her life and he was the one who planned the escape and went on with them that day they got caught. In Sweden we learn much about Marie Antoinette and Axel von Fersens love affair. When he got shot in Stockholm he had a watch and letter from Marie Antoinette inside his pocket
He did say that
It’s literally in the video…
Hugely informative. Thank you for the in depth analysis.❤
I love the channel, love your pace of telling the story. People respond to the historical event differently.
I been waiting for this one 🥳
VERY well done!
So excited to watch this!!!
Another masterpiece!
Such a well documented video thankyou so much
Fantastic documentary. Thank you!
Thank you for your fine history lesson.
Well done, excellent narrative excellent video, just subscribed!!!!🤗🇬🇧
This is Wonderful 😎Thank you❣️
I think she was very sad, and tried her best to make the best of a very difficult situation.. albeit, not in a good way. For some reason, they remind me of Prince Charles and Diana... both unhappy in their marriage.
Good comparison. Very tragic.
Louis was a very good husband and a family man. He never had a mistress.
Wow, what a great episode.
I truly think Marie Antoinette had a learning issue of some. Maybe ADHD or something along those lines. Because the things she loved, like music and dancing, she thrived in
Yeah, I wondered if she had dyslexia.
Thank you for your thoughtful and considerate report.
For whatever reason Marie Antoinette has held some kind of attraction to people. I personally think they were both so young to be married, it’s a wonder they did not make any contact for so long. I do believe she was very naive, as was Louis, young, immature and like most of us realized what our choices affect us later in life. They were young, but the people they did not show mercy on children, perhaps I am naive, but I think she understood enough to make an attempt to flee with her family, I think they got comfortable after leaving Paris, thus ending the family. I understand hunger will make you do very hard things, and a mob, I can easily see them killing them but for Marie Antoinette they gave her no mercy, very cruel, we haven’t changed much in time anytime there is a mob, riot, or angry group or people there will be casualties in an unfair manner. I must say I’ve not read of them much only within the last year or so, which now I can’t seem to pull away from. I love history but I do have some that I read and reread and think humans are unmerciful, what a shame we are, we should learn from history that so many shew away the thought. Think of what you knew at 14, I was in no hurry to be a wife or to become pregnant!! Poor Marie Antoinette may she and her family be at peace. I just discovered this channel so my bell is on.
the hold marie antoinette and queen victoria have on me. i will watch every single doc
Top notch doc, thank you
Glad to have found this upload. Appreciate history whenever I can read, watch, listen. We can all see that the times create the situations. She, as well as others through out history have not deserved their end. Ignorance and greed is well documented through the ages. And, unfortunately will continue until we are a fire ball star in the sky!!! Love reading, listening about the past. Though we never learn. Thanks, appreciated.
Great history culture art thank you
That was an excellent documentary. Thank you
💵 🏰👸👑🤴 Versailles, what a fascinating and yet terrifying life for Marie. Thank you for the history lesson and your wonderful storytelling skills.
I feel sad for Louis the 16th in some sense. From what’s been described, he seemed like a decent human, considering the times and status.
He's a decent person indeed.
He didn't took any mistresses. He also pleased the french people by following what they want him to do.He didn't execute those who are against his rule, all of these things are surprisingly especially most kings did the opposite of what he did. But sadly, he's a man that doesn't want to be a king, neither prepared to be one.And his head paid the price for it
Yes, but incapable to make a good decision or follow through.
@@justspittingsomefacts6425 Not right, he wasn't the 1st heir, but he was 9 when his older brother died. He was a adult when the revolution started, he just kept making the worst decisions.
@@booliev3275 they did not deserve to be murdered
@@booliev3275 HE made the decisions? No. The decisions were made FOR him.
Learn your sh+t before you spew it.
Thank you for this informative video. My aunt and I will visit the palace in May and I didn't want to be totally unaware and disrespectful of the history.
Thank you for a really good recap of her life. You tell it as if we are there. 🇦🇺
Well now we know, provide equal worthy education to all your children and not underestimate any.
She hated reading, never ever read a book until she was imprisoned. She simply wasn't interested in learning.
I feel deeply sad for her. All she wanted to be was a mother, she loved children, and she died knowing her babies were in danger.
That being said, Marie wasn't as helpless as people think. Part of the reason she was executed was because she was trying to get Austria to march on Paris and restore the monarchy. She realized her husband was a weak king. Towards the end of her life, she has a lot in common with Empress Alexandra of Russia. She was strong willed but deeply unpopular as a foreigner and not as competent in policy as she thought she was.
She was pretty hopeless
Great Documentary,,, I have a friend who is related to Marie,,, family history.. RIP/VIP Marie💐💐💐
That “Maria Antoinette” in the thumbnail is stunning.
Very informative and enjoyable.
Loved this documentary. I've read a lot about the revolution and the more I read the more I feel sorry for those two miss cast people . Louis was given so much bad advise and Marie the public scapegoat, no matter what she did at the end nothing could save them, her mother tried to warn her, but she saw it all to late, and the poor children left behind that poor boy.
This was the best ever documentary on Marie Antoinette.
So Marie's mother was also a bit more responsible for her death than I originally thought
No, she warned and warned her.
there is always two sides in every story. And I like how you tried your best to keep it neutral and professional. She and Louis xvi were children that had never grown and learned until they had to, sadly at that point, it was too little too late. Both had made so many mistake but all of them rooted to ignorance and naivete about what their job entails. I'm just sad her kids suffered as well. They should have been sent to Australia but we really can't blame the French people back then. A shame they didn't try to establish the same constitutional monarchy like UK, it would have helped their position even at the eyes of the public and would have given them more time.
Are we really free from Taxation now?
why to Australia?It was not French colony.
In the beginning, the French Revolution might have accepted a constitutional monarchy, but the intransigence of the monarchs as well as great economic crises helped propel the French to the most extreme measures
@@SagesseNoir French Revolution? The ministers with their constitution have made a coup d'État. Constitutional monarchy = the gouvernement lets Napoleon fight.