Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France (part3/12)

Her name is synonymous with the French monarchy and all its excesses, but there is more to the story of Marie Antoinette than the simple tale of how a frivolous sovereign helped provoke the uprising that became the French Revolution. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker David Grubin paints a surprising portrait of a courageous figure and traces her journey from the splendors of a childhood in the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire to a French guillotine.

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[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Maria Theresa: "You owe it neither to your beauty which, in fact is not so great nor to your talents or culture. You know very well you have neither."

Damn Mom. I love you too.

LOLOL!! Goodness!

[LaSerpentaCanta]

lol, Maria Teresa's letters to Antoinette are painfully funny. They are carefully constructed daggers, and they must've hurt her daughter greatly. Maria Teresa is a really interesting figure to me, it seems she was in constant conflict, as the head of an Empire and head of her family. It must've been harder for her because she was a woman, once a mother always a mother no matter what.

[janeyrevanescence12]

@truvianni you're welcome

[truvianni]

@janeyrevanescence12 thank you, I actually knew that he was in love with her though I did not know this was in a faithful way as well.

[janeyrevanescence12]

@truvianni I think he was more asexual or just really shy. Because by the time the Revolution happened, he was deeply devoted to Antoinette and loved her very much. He was actually ridiculed at court for being faithful to her (as it was common for kings to take on mistresses and only use their wives as babymaking machines).

[happybkwrm]

Her mother had good advice, but she could have been kinder giving it.

[Strefanasha]

the treatment the french meted out to her, her husband and her son show what contemptible cowards revolutionary regicides are

[truvianni]

Could he have been a homosexual or is that just out of the real of possibilities?

[willbirful]

good work here

[akissy]

@akissy ...continue. We are all human after all, but I suspect she was the one who broke her daughter's spirit to pieces more than Louis inability to accept her, or all the gossip around her. Antoine wasn't a very strong spirited child to begin with, and Therese's accusations and lack of tact were of no help...