Marie Antoinette-"La reine au balcon"

[TheEmmaTucker]

I like the Kirsten Dunst movie better.

[luciecitonelle]

GossipFLOje suis tout a fait d'accord avec vous!!meme si elle etait mele a cela elle ne meritait pas ceci!!les revolutionnaire la respecté ,mais elle a quand meme etait guillotiné!"Vive la reine!!"

[kuhleskind]

jane seymour spoke french in this film??? i want to see this now..in english of course.

[Perversus666]

Marie Antoinette ou l'itinéraire d'une enfant pourrie, symbole de la banqueroute, de la futilité et du mépris de tout un peuple.

Elle a amplement mérité sa mort et la haine que lui vouait le peuple, elle qui s'achetait des colliers et des robes pendant que le peuple mourrait de faim, creusant d'avantage le gouffre financier abyssal du royaume.

[MarinaMaxwellYuy]

@Perversus666 Et toi, si tu avais été roi ou reine à 18 ans, sans aucune expérience dans le métier, innocent et mal entouré, qu'aurais-tu fait? De plus, les comptes de l'époque ont été refaits et il a été prouvé que les dépenses de Marie-Antoinette ne représentaient que un pourcent du déficit. C'est le règne de Louis XV qui a ruiné le pays. Son petit-fils et sa petite-fille par alliance ont eu à payer les pots cassés. Avant de sortir des inepties, on se renseigne. A bon entendeur, adieu.

[stevesg92]

How dare them! Lol.. I know they were opportunists but I just love the idea of royalty

[GossipFLO]

Je pense que Marie-Antoinette la reine n'aurait dut être mellée a tout ça il n'avait pas le droit de l'introduire dans cette histoire , elle n'était au courant de rien je le plein tellement : "Vive la Reine" !

[bobduvar]

@GossipFLO Pardon ??!! Il a était prouvé qu'elle avait comploté avec son frère pour faire capoter la révolution !!! Elle était au courant de tout et tirait les ficelles de beaucoup de dossiers qu'elle n'aurait jamais dû s'occuper.

elle s'est s'immiscée dans la politique française de l'époque, le Roi ne l'a forcée !

A trop vouloir s'approcher du soleil, elle s'est brûlée les ailes dans une période terrible marquée par la "petite" période glaciaire qui a conduit à la famine du Peuple français.

[kieghacat]

Jane Seymore! i didn't know she played marie antoinette

[CHCANY]

@kieghacat

my freind I was surprised as well, believe me :)

[CHCANY]

@kieghacat

my friend I was surprised as well, believe me :)

[itsmister2u]

Can someone tell me if this movie is in english somewhere and can i get it??

[Thevolvoboys]

ik zou keihard naar binnen rennen XD

[Kementaryas]

" La reine au balcon ! " " Point d'enfants ! " " Abattez l'Autrichienne ! "

Il fallait quand même du courage, ou du mépris, pour se montrer devant ceux-là qui vous haïssaient. Elle aurait pu être tuée ce jour-là... il n'y aurait pas eu l'épisode de Varennes et la tentative de monarchie constitutionnelle aurait peut-être durée plus qu'une seule année.

Méritait-elle la mort pour autant ?

[Medusa0999]

Jane Seymour, makes a very beautiful Marie. Maybe even the most beautiful.

[NkotbJoeyJordanFan]

Is this movie called ''La Revolution Francaise'' ?

[Agounet]

C'est un peu exagéré. Il s'agit d'une révolte qui a eu lieu après le 14 juillet. Le peuple, et essentiellement des femmes, se sont rendus à Versailles (L'Assemblée siégeait encore là-bas) pour réclamer la baisse du pain. Le Roi était encore souverain. Dans les faits, elle s'est bien présenté au balcon avec ses enfants et le peuple a crié "pas d'enfants". Et personne n'a crié "abattez la", elle n'aa été mise en joue par une seule personne.

[CrystalChord2010]

Her Majesty was exceptionally strong and brave throughout her whole life. Every single thing that she was accused of, she faced with grace and calm. Vive la Reine!

[theflowerpower01]

Marie Antionette did NOT care for common working people.She told the historic words" If they can't effort bread that they eat gataux! And yes, that's what the crowd did, they went to the palace and got it!People where starving in the streets in France while the rich making big feast with a lot of expensive food!Think on that and that's how the revolution started.Vive la republic!

[Stormiya]

@theflowerpower01 She never said that. Do your research before you speak :D The Revolution started because the poor were manipulated by other rich people who wanted power for themselves. Louis XVI called the Estates General because he wanted to tax the nobility and revoke their tax exempt status. Something the common people of France would've benefited from. So why don't you chew on that :)

[theflowerpower01]

@Stormiya Before you bashing at me(because you are that way)you better do your research why the people stormed in the places like the chateau's because they had HUNGER! So you can chew at that, many royals died yes but before thousands commoners died of poverty because the rich took and took even their harvests.And then you surprised that people don't take it anymore? I don't say Robespierre was a good one, in the end he was the same like the greedy royals and he was also beheaded.

[Stormiya]

@theflowerpower01 I have done my research (unlike you I am not the one who attributed a quote to Marie Antoinette that she never said) and yes people were starving but this is not the fault of the King or Queen who attempted to aide the people. They can't control if there is a good harvest or not but the nobility (the same ones who manipulated the poor into to revolting to avoid taxation) are very much to blame. ITs even said the Duc D'Orleans use to buy out the bread supply in paris

[theflowerpower01]

@Stormiya answer2:What Louis XVI wanted to do was all to late, harm was already done.If they had started sooner a republic,and give the people food then this wasn't happend.By the way those 2 had also a farm as a hobby, so if they had mixed with the commoners before it wouln't happend.

[Stormiya]

@theflowerpower01 to make the King and Queen look bad. The King and Queen were very sympathetic to the cause of the poor but were aware of the power plays being mad by the nobles of France. As apparent by this latest response you need to do more research on this area because you still don't know what you're talking about. (hell the quote you Attributed to Marie Antoinette has been widely disproven by historian yet you used it. Clear evidence of your lack of knowledge on this subject)

[theflowerpower01]

@Stormiya you have lack of evidence.I can understand that you are a big fan of those 2 persons but you are blind to see their faults in brainwashed as a royalist. So you don't have to say this at all. Ask you self why people are fed up of hunger?When they had big feasts in the chataux's!Is that normal?Then you are blind.You don't have to say that I have lack of effidence or knowledge,it's you that still have to learn a lot.I don't answer you anymore,timewaister you just are just a basher.

[Stormiya]

@theflowerpower01 No I don't there is plenty of historical evidence to back me up. However you've already been proven wrong. And I think its awful that people starved and that things needed to be fixed. the King and Queen weren't opposed to attempting to fix the problem. All you're doing is scapegoating. So instead of just blaming people (incorrectly) why not do some research and understand the issues of the time. I have facts on my side you dont

[Camy280791]

@theflowerpower01 That's not true. Please read the biographie of Marie Anotinette..

[TubbyWilliams]

I know the people were suffering but HOW DARE THEY!

[Bottebuh]

What are the mob screaming at 1:35? It sounds like "Vive la reine" but I'm not sure xD

[AleksandrBarislav]

It's not "La reine ou balcone", but "La reine au balcon" ^^

[Deader87]

Joely Richardson & Ute Lemper are my two favorite cinema Marie Antoinettes of all time

[Deader87]

That severed-head look so fake!!!

[ch36e]

La reine au balcon ^^ lool

[midnightmagicwitch]

A queen of France, in Marie Antoinette's time, was expected to live discreetly, to respect court etiquette, and to ensure the continuity of the Bourbon dinasty (to bear a heir to the throne)...

But Antoinette, queen at 18 years old, was too young and frivolous to embody that role...

So she imposed her taste and style to the court (the first French queen to do so), and, at the very beggining, enchanted Parisians with this attitude...

But later, everything backfired against her...

[amphibianwings]

she is my beloved, too T_T

[AvBopper]

omg...that disembodied head....:O

[iAsian92]

She was chosen to marry Louis with no other alternative, and she was a young girl put up too early onto the throne. She didn't know how to rule, but she knew how to have fun- like any other girl does. :P Too bad for her ending.

[NA60469]

Lol at Louis' face @ 0:11

[CareBearCountdown]

I agree. I think her crime was being foreign and genuinely unaware of the state of things. Not only that, but its kind of obvious that the people were rather fickle. If you don't believe me, ask Robespierre.

[GoMidoriIsCool]

i would but he's sort of........ dead

[dumoulin11]

they are saying "la reine au balcon" - the queen to the balcony, and she deserved to die, as a matter of fact, the guillotine was far too swift a punishment.

[strawberrishake]

what are they saying to her?

[LienPT]

Dear strawberrishake:

The first two men start asking for the Queen's whereabouts, "Where is the Austrian?" "She has already runned away!", then the people demands for the Queen to show herself in the balcony ("La reine au balcon!"). When Marie first appears, the woman encourages the men to shoot her and calls Marie a whore. However, when the Queen bows to the angy mob, they cheer her ("God save the Queen!", "Long live the Queen!").

It is a very powerful scene... =)

[darleneisachizmosa]

LienPT,

Thank you for the translation!

I always wondered what was being said in this scene. =)

[maisondecouture]

in theirs minds a king is still the voice of God on earth, that rules by his name. so, a absolut king, is king , by the grace of GOD. Now, imagine this queen, an austrian empirial princess, raised in a fairy tale... then live in versailles.. she has no idea what's going on... a queen consort is only made to have children, but she got so strong, when she realised whats going on, ... too lare!!!

[blenhei]

She was a great lady, her only faults were being too kind, too beautiful, too noble, and foreign

[NA60469]

beautiful lady

[spleenmallory]

Vive notre derniere Reine qui n'aurait jamais du être décapitée !

[spleenmallory]

LA REINE AU BALCON !

[harrylepotier]

rhoooooooooo LA REINE AU BALCON lol la reine ou balcone

[lukemack]

have we forgotten the horrors of the common people?

[Hhostclub]

beautiful woman. who is she?

[tonylast47]

Jane Seymour as Marie Antoinette

[LoveAndLiberty1776]

thomaspainereturns. net

Have people become too complacent with modern living? Have people forgotten the tyranny of subjugation to a king? Have people forgotten the horrors of slavery? Will they wake up before it is too late?

[VocalRuns]

she was a scapegoat for all the mismanagement of the finances done by Louis XVI's ministers. her only mistake was she didn't do anything firm against the smearing done on her reputation. and yes, she had more French blood in her veins than her husband and did you know that she can also trace her roots to Mary Queen of Scots.

[PlainYork]

Yes that is what happened. Had she responded to the criticism in time and had her charitable work be known or else found a way to stop the propagandists she may have survived the Revolution along with the kids.

[alexia513]

@VocalRuns They all intermarried, all the european royals, its kinda gross

[VocalRuns]

@alexia513 - hahah they are all one big family.

[rude1boii]

that is disgusting the heads on the pike.

if i was her and saw that i would have fainted

[PlainYork]

She did. Not then but she did faint when she saw her friend Princess Lamballe's head on a spike. The fact that she was so strong tells me that she was a strong woman.

[tonylast47]

She was even stronger when she went to the guillotine. Sanson says she showed no fear.

[PlainYork]

Main Entry: 1mar·tyr

Pronunciation: \ˈmär-tər\

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin, from Greek martyr-, martys witness

Date: before 12th century

1: a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion

2: a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle.

[PlainYork]

She didnt die becaues of failure to renounce a religion and she didnt die for the sake of a principle. She was murdered because people hated her and blamed her for the excesses that caused the poverty of her people. She was murdered because she was Austrian and she was murdered because she represented what the revolutionists hated.

[katharinethequene]

Its ironic they hated her being Austrian so much, when she was actually more French than her husband was.

[PlainYork]

Exactly. She had at least three french grandparetns whereas if I am not mistaken the King had one to two french grandparents. Racism/nationalism takes many forms.

[leahcantstop]

who's head are they holding at 1:03?

[CHCANY]

guard´s man

[Deader87]

@leahcantstop I don't know but it looks hilariously-fake whom ever it is

[VocalRuns]

as a matter of fact, Marie Antoinette abandoned the heavily powdered,towering hair (which comprised lots of fake hair, btw) to a simpler short and feathery hairdo after she gave birth to Marie Therese. she also abandoned wearing the wide panniered court dresses in favor of simple muslin dresses in which she was criticised for being unbecoming to a Queen of France. she also wore less rouge on her cheeks. in the days of the French revolution, her hair turned literally white due to constant fear.

[CHCANY]

YES YES..SHE GOT thiner also...nonody could recognise her when she mounted to the scaffold...she turned a statue...let us remember marie antoinette...

[letthemxeatcake]

Her hair looks like a white afro! I'm sorry but I just had to point that out...

I liked her hair in the 2006 version

[sesaw7]

Its a wig..lol

[letthemxeatcake]

I knew that.

[Rachegotter]

They chant "la reine au balcon!", i.e. demanding that Marie-Antoinette shows herself on the balcony. The mobs were convinced she had already fled the palace and they demanded to see her face.

[romagnolo1989]

Ehm .. Can anybody tell me where is it possible to get this movie?

I don't care of the language... but I absolutely have to watch this !!!

[karottetrekker]

It's online. It's above in among my favourites. I hope you understand French.

[katharinethequene]

In real life she actually had her oldest daughter with her on the balcony, this is a very good production, the actress who play Marie Anoinette is really pretty!

[oceanblueeyes87]

In real life, the children were taken away and Marie Antoinette appeared ALONE on the balcony, as seen in the recent Sophia Coppola movie.

[CHCANY]

No in real life this happened exactly like this ---those kids went there with her and then she sent them back...

[sjpatejak]

Jane Seymour

[katharinethequene]

It would be funny if she ever played the role of Queen Jane Seymour

[xxcookiejord]

oh look its the fat lesbian bitch!!!

[crebillonfils]

u mean "La reine AU balcon"

(the queen TO THE balcony)

[xoxoBLAIRxoxo]

what is the name of this movie and can you find it in English?

[hannibalparis]

This movie is in fact a two-parts movie, made in 1989, for the bicentennial of the French Revolution ; both parts were made by Robert Enrico. The first film is "Les Années Lumières". The second is "Les Annes Terribles". Unfortunately, it's impossible, today, to get them. I have them but old vhs lol Incredible cast for all the movie, especially Jean-François Balmer, a Swiss actor, who creates the probably best Louis XVI I ever saw on a screen. And Klaus Maria Brandauer as Danton.

[djilali0750]

la reine a été une perfection de dignité,de courage et de grandeur dans cette période abominable où le bas peuple a été abominable.les idées de la révolution ont pollué l'esprit général en france et le monde depuis mais heureseument nous en voyons la fin et marie-antionette est de plus en plus réhabilitée.sue lui a-t-on reproché,d'être belle,de s'amuser et le peuple maintenantil s'amuse pas??????????

[mOlyLu]

"Le bas peuple" tu as dit. Voudrais-tu que le bas peuple avait encore les problémes qui ont causé la révolution? C'est seulement la noblesse qui peut s'amuser?! Ce que tu dis est riducule.

[swatkins69]

i really dont know what 2 think of her, i feel so passionalty about the whole thing, the film betrays her as some wot of a good women,she lived like a queen but did not lead like one. she got away with alot, letting her people starve,all it took was giving bread, she was not stupid,she just turned her back to it all, she got everthing,i have a baby, and wot breaks my heart is her babys, they should have been the first out of the country, and for that poor boy dying in prison crying for her.

[piltrafillaura]

Pour Marie Antoinette!

I think people was(and is)fickle.

First they want to kill her, and then, voila, Vive la Reine!

[mnm20098]

Can someone please tell me what movie this is!I really want to see it now!

[blenhei]

She was a great lady, her only fault was to be too young, too beautiful, too naive, too aristocratic.

[hommechauvesouris]

La reine sur la guillotine!!!!!

[blenhei]

you go ahead

[henrysinaga]

VIVA LE REINE!

[ExpeditionEverestFan]

well....she was a queen in rebellion and she was spending in france's time of need

[xoxoANDIxoxo]

Marie Antoinette is wonderful

where can i find the rest of this?

[Maeiko]

where can i find the continuation?

[JesusChacin9]

Stupid people!! why that strong hate for Marie Antoinette?

[ReginaEmeraldas]

I'm agree with you ... people are so stupid! That's strange: French don't leave offensive comments on youtube, but No-european people do it ... What they know about our ancient culture? They don't know what it is the monarchy "pour droit divin".

[burgonde71]

avant de traiter le peuple français de peuple stupide, il faut essayer de comprendre les évènements de cette époque.les gens mourraient de faim, tandis que l'aristocratie vivait dans l'opulence.

[JesusChacin9]

in English please =)

[Maeiko]

burgonde71 ment that "for treating the stupid French people of people, it is necessary to try to include/understand the events of this époque. the people would die of hunger, while the aristocracy lived in opulence"

[ROME59]

court needs to understand evenements before speaking; it is facil to say to this today; in this epoch people would die from hunger in every street corner while the nobility lived in the complete luxury; you in England... there is Charles 1st...

[CHCANY]

as well murdered by "PEOPLE"...nöt that stupid Cromwel...people alowed them to murder theyr God´s anointed sovereign"""!people...

[omgfreakay]

pourquoi est-ce qu'ils ont crié "Vive La Reine"? Je pensais qu'ils la voulait morte!

[ReginaEmeraldas]

Because she bows and people are stuck by her dignity

Parce que elle s'incliners et le peuple est frappé par sa dignité

[omgfreakay]

yet she still died...

[ROME59]

c'est pas le peuple qui l'a tuée , c'est le tribunal révolutionnaire qui l'a condamnée à mort ! y a une nuance ; le peuple il s'en fichait , elle aurait put rester en prison toute sa vie , ça lui était égal

[CHCANY]

yes the french people alowed those people to condemmed her becouse there was woman no more hated n France than Marie Antoinette-one word describes it-"L´Autrichienne!"....

[romanovskii]

si chiama "la reine au balcone"

et e un film veramente bouno.

[valycattiva]

Hi!!!.. Im Italian girl, my name is Valeria end I love the story abaut Maria Antonietta...what is the name of this movie please!!?

[ReginaEmeraldas]

Si chiama La Rivoluzione Francese, uno sceneggiato in due episodi andato in onda nel 1989 sulla Rai. Purtroppo in italiano non è reperibile e in Francia deve ancora uscire il DVD.

[valycattiva]

Grazie mille!!!

[callmehelmut]

oui sans etre une sainte c'etait une femme bien, on en a fait un bouc emissaire, on a tout utilisé contre elle, sa bisexualité, des rumeurs degueulasses d'inceste, des inventions les plus honteuses, la phallocratie des revolutionnaires saute aux yeux, on ne l'aurait pas appellee "la putain" si elle avait etee un homme.

[CHCANY]

better to writte it in english...not everybody here speaks french...))

[wtwrail]

Is there annnnny way to get a copy of this movie/min-series on DVD -- even in French ?? I am in the US. Thanks !!!

[LaSerpentaCanta]

this film looks so innacurate, it was NIGHT when that happened.

[CHCANY]

LOL!!!srry but we all here are happy we can see this film...no matter if it´s accurate or not...)))

[henrysinaga]

actually it was about dawn when this happened

[LaSerpentaCanta]

no it wasn't, it was around 3am-4am in the morning. It was night.

[Odiarda]

tsk tsk, it was 6 am ^^

[destinytears]

Poor Marie Antoinette.

[adena539]

oh dear marie in is only a mater of time to prove that there was more to the neckless afair that mets the eye.

WONDERFUL VIDEO!!

[sandrosia]

Dieu sauve la reine !!

Pauvre reine, si pleine de courage et de dignité.

Il n'est pas de plus grande dame à avoir vécue sur le sol français.

Thanks you for this vidéo,

the queen martyr is the most shame moment in french story.

(I'm sorry for my verry bad english)

[CHCANY]

your english is definitely better than mine---LOL)))And your comment is true...it is a shame how the french mob treated her ...but she was the cause of the Revolution ---she brought that on herself...even I deeply love her I must say that...

[LaSerpentaCanta]

she was not the cause of the Revolution, how can you say that?

[CHCANY]

I thing somehow she was...for example: she never said "Let them eat cakes!"but her behaviour made the people to think that she´d have no problem in saying that remark...just an example...of course she shuold still be canonized)))

[leilagaleran]

She was use by revolution like the perfect monster,(in french the word exact is bouc emissaire, but i don't know how saying that in english), but she isn't the cause of revolution.

i'm french, sorry for my faults in english and thanks for this video

[tonygenebell]

bouc emissaire

= scapegoat

[CHCANY]

Iĺl tell you an example:"Marie Antoinette NEVER EVER said:"Let them eat cakes!"-but not becouse she was good enought to not saying so but becouse Marie Antoinette never noticed that her subject have no bread...it is sad but the Queen is answerable only to God!)

[nosleep333]

Could you please upload the part in which the mobs storm Versailles and the Queen has to run through the door in her apartments...

thanx!

[CHCANY]

My dear friend ,your words here deeply touched me,becouse they are absolutely true...)))She should be canonizated,no doubt---but becouse there are still people on this Eart who hate ,deeply hate Marie Antoinette still I don´t believe it will be possible...but it is a thing I´d wish till the day I die

[hbuchaul]

A martyr is one who freely accept the death for a noble cause. When

This cause is the Faith, the martyrdom opens the possibility of canonization by the

Church. However, you can also suffer the martyrdom for other noble

Ideals not directly related to the Faith.

For firmness, dignity and serenity with which faced the revolutionaries,

I find it very appropriate that Marie Antoinette is called Queen-Martyr

[PlainYork]

oh and thansk for the vid!

[PlainYork]

martydom is not the right word here. She didnt die for any concrete religious or moral beliefs. She was murdered because of who she was not because of what she thought they didnt care what she thought.

[CHCANY]

what is touching that Marie Antoinette started to care about the people when they already hated her---but who is there on the earth to be telling The Queen what she should and should not do...)

[PlainYork]

She always cared for people. Perhaps not when she first arrived but as time went buy she was a very charitable women sadly it didnt reach the ears and eyes of people overall. The people have the right to tell their leaders and sovereign what is what. The Queen and King belong to the Estate and the People. If she was the Mother of France then she belonged to France. The problem is that she was unable to show her charitable side because it was mostly private and the propagandists

[PlainYork]

did a good job in smearing her reputatin and since she didnt respond... in time... things went bad for her.

[CHCANY]

THE PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL anything to those who are answerable only to God and NONE but God...no person of thepeople is alowed-that itself is herecy and sacriledge'!)

[PlainYork]

You are obviously a royalist. Even though royals believe that they were divinely made into royalty the truth of the matter is that they just got lucky to be born where they were born. With that said they were still rulers and leaders of countries and their bodies and who they were, BELONGED to the State and therefore the people, therefore the people COULD demand whatever they like or their monarchs. when their monarchs refused to make their lives better they were removed. From ancient world...

[PlainYork]

till now. That has been part of history. Monarchs ARE NOT GODS they are human beings and they could be very easily removed as the French Revolution proved. Kings and Queens had a lot ofp eople to answer to not just to God and being answerable to God is not an excuse for them to do whatever they want.

[pantseeker2]

there is no god.

[hbuchaul]

The Queen at all times maintained a incredible dignity.She was a true martyr.

Every day of my life i have thought in her person and in her martyrdom.

Thak you CHCANY

[hbuchaul]

Across this moments the queen had an incomparable dignity. She was a true martyr.

Every day of my life I think of her figure in her martyrdom.

Thank You CHCANY

[CHCANY]

You are as kind as ever I do thank you-I believe and thank God there are still people on this Earth who we are grateful that they are like that)