Marie Antoinette ~ Petit Trianon HQ

A scene from the 2006 movie depicting the queen's private life at The Petit Trianon.

I do not own any of this. This is for entertainment only.

[elisabethcarter]

I can understand why Marie would rather spend her time here. It looks so beautiful.

[marikkelaszlo]

I just realized that Marie Antoinette was into the cottagecore aesthetic way before tiktok made it popular

[roove]

This is a perfect example of the fantasy world she decided to build for herself. It's beautiful and intoxicating...until you step outside the palace walls.

[krystaldispatchbetttymcgin]

This scene is so idealic. It really does embody what was written about her time at La Petit Triannon. Marie was completely sheltered from the real world. She had no idea what the true pastoral life really was. She had no idea how all around the walls of Versailles, people, children, we're starving. She thought that this was how the country peasants lived simply because the staff were paid by the king to make it so. The animal enclosures were kept well away from the house so she and the children didn't smell filth. The sheep, goats and chickens allowed to wander were bathed in perfume and staff followed them to quickly clean up their droppings and urine. The eggs being washed before she collected them is true, and all of the produce she picked were rinsed clean of dirt. She did milk cows and goats for fun, but only after the staff carefully washed the animal and perfumed them and led them far away from the barn. Since she had been an Archduchess before her arrival to France at 14, and cloistered from the real world after that, she had no idea that this wasn't how the real world lived...until it was far too late. Her story is incredibly tragic.

[keftkey]

That little girl is the most adorable thing on this planet

[cscott]

I remember seeing this movie as a little girl. The visuals in this particular scene stuck with me for years and years. So beautiful.

[ASTPlumbing]

The child that was cast is the sweetest and cutest little doll baby. I just want to reach through the screen and give her a hug and help her play with all the little lambs and chickens and pick flowers with her. This movie was like watching a painting come to life.

[nina]

She's so sweet with her beautiful little daughter. The little lamb is cute too.

[shahoney]

I love how the little girl is speaking French, and her supposed mother is speaking English to her.

[orenneudag]

I personally believe that this was Marie-Antoinette's best part in her life. It was after the birth of her sons, so her status as queen as unchallenged, and right before the Revolution. she lived there in quite modest lifestyle (at least compared to the pomp and circumstance of Versailles), and before the death of her eldest son the Dauphin Louis Joseph. Truly sad thing what happened to her, and to her sons (and more specifically to her youngest son Louis-Charles, who was imprisoned and tortured by the revolutionaries, only for his "crime" to be born to the royal family.

[Kaboomboo]

I absolutely love the shot at 2:42. So calm and peaceful with a slightly gray clouds. A calm before the storm if you will.

[ebmosier]

I love all of the costumes in this movie, but these especially. They're just so light and relaxed compared to the rest. Thanks for uploading!

[sophieharding]

that little girl alone is a star! her cute little voice and dress, my heart melted

[el_naif]

The scene of the maids cleaning the eggs has sticked with me ever since.

[Mr.Crowley]

One of my favorite scenes from the film. Kristen Dunst IS of German (3/4 German and 1/4 Swedish) heritage, and she actually looked very appropriate as Marie in terms of skin tone, eye color, hair color, etc. This film is so beautiful to watch, and it made me feel the sad and terrible parts of the revolution even though the film doesn't show that aspect. Yes the queen was out of touch -- but she had no power over the situation, was a political scapegoat, hideously ridiculed in the notorious pamphlets (displayed in pornographic scenarios and accused of every "horror" such as lesbianism and incest with her son), the "Austrian" who was murdered for what she symbolized. Rose Byrne as the Duchesse de Polignac is so gorgeous in this film -- exactly how I imagine the beautiful, extremely charismatic Duchesse (it is said she died of a broken heart when she learned of her best friend the queen's execution though she had actually been ill for a few years). The Duchesse de Polignac wasn't a redhead like Byrne but Byrne has those gorgeous doe-eyes, and the way she brightens every room was just perfect in this film.

[raysomeusc]

I love this pre-production scene, without soundtracks. Feels like documentary footage

[MadiBendy]

I understand that the film is inaccurate to the history but it is a gorgeously shot film. ☺️

[cinnameon]

Owns France.
"WELCOME TO MY LITTLE VILLAGE"

Love this scene, it's so beautiful. But you really have to consider how filthy rich they are to enjoy bucolicism.

[lauranicole]

I just love the irony that outside this simulated fantasy their real countryside is starving and falling to ruins...but look, eggs!

[Winniyyy]

Marie Antoinette invented cottagecore.