Marie Antoinette: From Queen To Guillotine

Marie Antoinette began as a teenage queen, embraced by France in 1770 at the delicate age of 18. During her reign however, she was largely unpopular, known for spending lavishly and opposing the French Revolution. Eventually in 1793, Marie Antoinette was found guilty of high treason for conspiring with foreign powers against the security of France. Associated nowadays with the decline in moral authority of the French monarchy during the final years of the ancien régime and the monarchy's eventual overthrow in 1792, find out all the fascinating details of her life and death in this complete biographical documentary.

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[LocalGod]

So two teenagers were put in charge of an entire kingdom and things didn't go well. They were blamed for the fall out and severely punished.

[MadiganinPeach]

"pardon me, monseiur, I did not do it on purpose." I can't even imagine what was going thru her head right then, but somehow this feels like it was an automatic response, she didn't even think about it. This small interaction really does express her entire life.

[theelitemanticore]

Marie Antoinette & Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia are so similar in many ways. Both were doomed the moment they became the Consorts of their new countries.

If only they were like Catherine the Great & Catherine of Aragon (both teenagers) who integrated themselves to their new countries (Russia & England) and made an effort to win the love of their people.

[anthonyschmelzer]

I have to agree it does seem like more men are willing to discuss their feelings and show their vulnerable side, but way too many more view it as a sign of weakness. But like you, I know it takes courage and strength to show that side and I have respect for that.

[FaeryOfTheForests]

If the royals weren't important enough to keep alive, then nobody was safe. What an utter nightmare. Poor Marie Antoinette 👑 She lived in the most gorgeous palace in the world, had everything her heart desired, but still wasn't happy. 7 years without consumation! Everyone watching 👀 couldn't even take a 💩 without someone watching and announcing it!

[HawkinaBox]

You know, I get why the French people were so unhappy with her seeing how it correlates with what's happening today with rich vs. poor. If you ignore the people who put you in the position, (and I know she was not voted it) you're going to have a LOT of people hating you. But I get where she's coming from, too, since she was 14 and obviously coped with the incredibly amount of stress by being materialistic.

[trawlins]

It's so sad what happened to her little boy 😢

[MarieAntoinettestruestory]

Anyone want to read her heartbreaking last letter to her sister in law madame Elizabeth? Here you go!
It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments. I am calm, as one is when one’s conscience reproaches one with nothing. I feel profound sorrow in leaving my poor children: you know that I only lived for them and for you, my good and tender sister. You who out of love have sacrificed everything to be with us, in what a position do I leave you! I have learned from the proceedings at my trial that my daughter was separated from you. Alas! poor child; I do not venture to write to her; she would not receive my letter. I do not even know whether this will reach you. Do you receive my blessing for both of them. I hope that one day when they are older they may be able to rejoin you, and to enjoy to the full your tender care. Let them both think of the lesson which I have never ceased to impress upon them, that the principles and the exact performance of their duties are the chief foundation of life; and then mutual affection and confidence in one another will constitute its happiness. Let my daughter feel that at her age she ought always to aid her brother by the advice which her greater experience and her affection may inspire her to give him. And let my son in his turn render to his sister all the care and all the services which affection can inspire. Let them, in short, both feel that, in whatever positions they may be placed, they will never be truly happy but through their union. Let them follow our example. In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one’s own family? Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.

I have to speak to you of one thing which is very painful to my heart, I know how much pain the child must have caused you. Forgive him, my dear sister; think of his age, and how easy it is to make a child say whatever one wishes, especially when he does not understand it. It will come to pass one day, I hope, that he will better feel the value of your kindness and of your tender affection for both of them. It remains to confide to you my last thoughts. I should have wished to write them at the beginning of my trial; but, besides that they did not leave me any means of writing, events have passed so rapidly that I really have not had time.

I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy. I beg pardon of all whom I know, and especially of you, my sister, for all the vexations which, without intending it, I may have caused you. I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

Farewell, my good and tender sister. May this letter reach you.* Think always of me; I embrace you with all my heart, as I do my poor dear children. My God, how heart-rending it is to leave them forever! Farewell! farewell! I must now occupy myself with my spiritual duties, as I am not free in my actions. Perhaps they will bring me a priest; but I here protest that I will not say a word to him, but that I will treat him as a total stranger. (the letter never reached her sister)

[lorilawlove]

Marie and Louis were just scapecgoats for all of the men who were really running the show...the end!

[Amnesialix]

Thank you! Loved it. Many parallels with today’s elites

[_rebouel]

Excellent and we’ll put together love this documentary thanks for it

[lindanickolai]

Marie Antonette did her duty. Yes she was young, thrust into a marriage for alliance sake.
She was only a teenager! What teenager doesn't make mistakes?
Im glad i didnt have to live then. They were hard years with children, politics and wars/revolutions.
What a strong woman!❤

[dean]

I’m sure things were much different. Royals were probably disconnected from the common folk. She was not prepared but also the riots should have gave them some clue!

[florencehendrick]

I was delighted and amazed to learn via 23 and Me that I'm related to Marie Antoinette.

[DavidfL]

A new subscriber, Thanks for your work and time ❤

[she_wizzdom]

She sounds like a normal person who lived in unfortunate circumstances, nothing she did indicates her being evil

[TruthMatters-]

So many comments, yet not one expressed sadness or sympathy for the starving mothers and children of France who endured unimaginable suffering, while she lived a life of luxury.

The same holds true today—people are captivated by celebrities but show little interest in the struggles of single mothers working two jobs. But I digress.

[PerfectlyImperfect]

This came from The Peoples Profile. I knew that narrators voice sounded familiar 😂😂

[Reaper-gquh]

In the US, we are heading straight into this direction.

[timallardyce]

Bit of a mistake. The aunts were NOT the sisters of Louis XV, they were his daughters and hence the aunts of the Dauphin Louis- Auguste, not his great aunts