MARIE ANTOINETTE

BY: MARIONA VIDAL AND ANNA MEMBRIVE

INDEX• Live facts• Biogaphy• Why is she important • Her role in the french revolution• Relationship with other characters • “Let them eat cake”• Portrait • Portrait • Portrait • Conclusion • Bilbiography

LIVE FACTS

• Complete name:  Marie Josepha Johanna Antoinette

• Born: 2-Nov-1755• Birthplace: Vienna, Austria• Died: 16-Oct-1793• Location of death: Paris, France• Cause of death: Execution• Married: Louis XVI• Remains: Buried, Saint-Denis Basilica, Saint-Denis, France• Religion: Roman Catholic• Occupation: Royalty

BIOGRAPHY• Parents: Maria Theresa, empress of Austria and Francis I,

Holy Roman Emperor.• Parents had enough money to pay her an education.• 16th May, 1770, Versailles: She was 15th years old married

dauphin of the French throne. Unification of Austria and France.

• Father died in 1774. One year later the couple became king and queen of France.

• Marie also became queen of Navarre. • 1784: support her brother (Joseph 2nd) with a feud with the

Netherlands. Husband refused to help Austria. French people criticized her, and called her “l’Autrichienne”.

• 1785: Jeanne de la Motte Valois pretended being Marie Antoinette and stole money from the cardinal of Rohan.

• To solve her reputation she gave the image of a carrying mother:

• "No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother."

• – Marie Antoinette• There were lots of rumours. Jeanne de la Motte Valois

Marriage

WHY IS SHE IMPORTANT?

• Became important when she became the queen of France.

• People started to criticize her.

• Suspicious daily life was.• And once they started

criticizing her, she owned that reputation, and she was the one that always would have the fault.

ROLE IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION• Accused her of being her who leaded them

to the crisis. • First and second state, didn’t pay the taxes

And inequality was the main cause of the French Revolution to begin.

• Desire to create a more fair taxes input. Nobles resisted. Blamed Maria Antoinette.

• 1789 assemble in Versailles with all the states.

• 3rd state meted again and placed the government on French citizens for the first time.

• She was accused for ordering his husband to oppose at the enlightened ideas and accused of various crimes.

Marie complaining before she died.

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

• Jacques Necker he was the king’s minister, they didn’t

have a really good relationship

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot he worked as general audience at the palace, neither had good

relationship.

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

King Louis XVI her husband Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, county of Mirabeau he was just the king’s

adviser.

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès he was a revolutionary politician

Maximilien Robespierre The same way as Sieyes

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just revolutionary, but he participated

in her execution.

Georges Danton Also a revolutionary politician , he wanted to restore the government so that

way it could be a republic

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER CHARACTERS

Jean-Paul Marat revolutionary that achieved the necessary votes to carry out the kings executions.

Napoleon Bonaparte Had a good relationship wrote a letter to

show his disagreement

“LET THEM EAT CAKE”

• That famous phrase was thought to be said by Marie, in order to

justify to the peasants that if they had no bread they could eat cake,

in order to say it

• There is no evidence

• The story appears in the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s

Confessions, which was written around 1766 (Marie Antoinette was

just 11)

• Antonia Fraser, believes the

quote would have been highly

uncharacteristic of Marie.

PORTRAIT• Here we have a Portrait of Marie

Antoinette. As we can see for her robes, for her hat, en for the necklace his wearing, she looks like she’s had a lot of money. Also she shows her economic power, because she could afford for a portrait.

• She is holding a rose with her hands, which would mean the youth, and the purity, which would symbolize her.

• The background is rural; she’s at the middle of a forest or of some garden, which remembers to the vegetation of Trianon (the palace and park of Versailles).

PORTRAIT• In the portrait of Marie Antoinette, we can

see her dressed in clothes that seem to be very expensive and elavorated so maybe that was a really important portrait, and also we can see she has a well groomed hair.

• At the background we can find a blanket or cloth with fleur de lis, that represent the Borbon family as Marie’s mother was  Maria Theresa, the daughter of King Philip IV of Spain

• We can also find a world globe that symbolize knowledge and wisdom

• Finally we can see that the room were she is located, somewhere in her castle, and also some velvet clothe.

By Jaques-Fabien Gautier d'Agoty

PORTRAIT• In this photo, we can see Maria

Antoinette in a more informal way. Those portraits, on which the character is represented with some instruments, are the ones that try to show wisdom and knowledge. Also, we can see that Marie is wearing a more casual suit to show his approach to the village, the background is thought to be a room only used for fine arts like music or painting.

Marie Antoinette, painted by 

Franz Xaver Wagenschön, shortly

after her marriage in 1770

 

Conclusion

• Carefree life

• Scandal around France

• Accusations, blames and rumors she was

condemned to death.

LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ ET FRATERNITÉ

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