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Still pretty if you are coming anywhere close. The portraits are likely a French rendition. The French look different from what Marie looked like. Just my experience with the French
one thing this misses is that marie tried to help the poor. even with her poor education, especially on economics and politics, she would listen to what the people were saying, established charities, donated generously, tried to create more well paying jobs, tried to make sure single mothers and their children were cared for, etc. she was a scapegoat forced into a doomed role.
The queen did as good as she could and had managed to raise the quality of life in France. The usual group of black souls have condemned her by plotting its ruin. Thank you for allowing the truth to emerge. As you can see, she doesn't need to be a feminist who screams girl power - just do your part in your environment. If every woman did this all over the planet, these black souls would run away. The woman is scary when she lives in grace, because she becomes a protector of her own home and family and she does not allow anything or anyone to get in the way.
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@@jburton413 1. it's latter, not ladder, and 2. no, this is true. her king-husband was super useless, so she tried to hold meetings to come up with ideas to supply food to help the famine.
I saw her death mask many years ago and thought she was really prettier than her portraits. Your recreation using the combination of her death mask and portraits say it all. She was really very beautiful.
That just confirms my comment above Carol. 😆 That the artists could only paint 'one' type of face! whether male (change nose a bit) otherwise female, child or baby just change the size of head! 2:26
She looks average.Let's be honest. She was extremely confident and could charm people,but physically she wasn't insanely beautiful. The same goes with Cleopatra.They weren't beauties.
Even from her death mask, you can see she was quite beautiful. I read a wonderful biography of her that was based on the weekly letters she wrote to her mother. It gave an incredible insight into court manoeuvrings and the prejudice and jealousy she faced. She and Louis were quite simple people, and highly unsuited to the role they were expected to play. A truly tragic story.
Yes, but included in those letters were rather explicit passages detailing her intimate life with Louis XVI. While some may consider this to have lurid and inappropriate for a parent and child to discuss, it must be kept in mind that the ultimate marital goal of the daughter of the Empress of the Holy Roman and Austrian Empires bearing an unquestionable legit son +heir for the King of France made Louis and M.A.'s intimate life a literal matter of state. Thus, had Louis not had an operation to cure a painful growth that kept him from enjoying his marriage (and siring offspring) this could have resulted in an annulment and/or worsened international relations between the French and Austrian governments! Of course, when MA DID become pregnant and bore her children, so many court officials,clerics, in-laws,etc. crowded around her childbed that she fainted- not from the labor or birth itself but from the incredibly cramped and stuffy air that resulted from all these men gawking at her to make sure the Queen of France bore the next Dauphin and it was NOT a 'warming pan baby' smuggled in.
@@wardarcade7452 Yeah, that was included in the book. Louis’ problem was hindering their ability to consummate the marriage. I remember her being anxious about having her sheets checked every day for virginal blood. So much pressure on such young people.
The historical research you do is amazing. But the art work you do is always impeccable. It made me see Marie as a completely different person than what I was told in our history books.
I often defend Marie when others try to paint her as the “bad guy.” I have an old book on French history, and she is much maligned in it. It wasn’t until recently that her history is being revised to be more realistic.
Read pawns in the game by William Guy Carr. It is the hidden history of most world conflicts including the French revolution. The world we see today is all a bankers trick.
I want everyone to know there is a “condition” that’s named after Marie called ”Marie Antoinette Syndrome” (or close to it) that is said to occur under extreme stress of both body and mind where your hair goes completely stark white/grey. This happened to her while she was imprisoned. Largely due to the rumors and horrors spread regarding falsities about neglect/s*xual abuse she did to her son (which were in no way true) that her son was forced to confirm under duress. Which I thought was horrific when I found out because she loved her kids and sucked that she was tormented to such a degree.
There was no doubt she loved her children and what happened to her son Louis-Charles is heartbreaking. I can't imagine her suffering when they took him away and she could hear him crying out for her. And then to hear from her young son his accusations of sexual abuse by her and his aunt. Unimaginable.
Don't you think her trial was controlled by pedophiles even then? I wish I could understand the fascination with this royal. What are people wanting from her?
But in the end, she gave proof to his fate- or rather her hair did. There was a locket of her hair that has been preserved (it seems she was a redhead, BTW) and the DNA from this hair proved that the young boy who died in the Temple after having been so brutalized and tortured by his captured WAS, in fact the onetime Dauphin and nominal Louis XVII. There had been rumors for the past two centuries that the boy had been spirited away and survived under a new identity but these have now been disproven via science!
I cannot understand why I get so emotional at the life like images; it is as if I am seeing them again alive after a long absence. Your work is amazing to say the least.
It's more the opposite for me. For me, all this is superfluous, unnecessary and it does not give me anything, in fact, on the contrary. It's almost like putting Crocs on her feet and saying, this is what she would look like today. I don't need to hear Mona Lisa's "voice" or watch Marie Antoinette roll her plastic eyes. Still, I respect the hours the author has put into the work, but I ended up here by accident and will limit myself to this one visit.
@spazmonkey3815 I think there are many girls who are like this you see..we all know a women and girls like this...we just have to open our eyes and there they are 😢
The ending really does make you feel sad for her, especially those last words, she didn't really do much wrong and anything that was wrong was probably because she was too young.
Therse we go, passing out the "too young" card like its candy 😒... it's easy isn't not owning ones own s**t in life but always blaming it being "too young" @katedp7825
@@ArtsyStudios She was a child when she was married to Louis and a child when she became queen. She was absolutely and completely sheltered from normal people,and never knew any other life.
She really was an incredibly kind and caring person though not many people know that about her. There was one instance she gave all of her personal “allowance” to help a village that had been destroyed by a cattle stampede and many people had been injured/killed. She is reported to have told her children at Christmas time “now you understand that the winter was very hard and the harvest was not good, there are many of our people who are suffering, so Mummy has spent all her money to help them, so there will be no Christmas gifts this year”
@ MitchPRO8. Thank you for telling this about Queen Marie-Antoinette. I've never heard of this, and it makes me happy to learn of all the good things she did in her short life.
That " revolution" was fuel with envy and greedy. Then the winners rewrite the History. France needed a change that day but not the control of a group of assassins of monarchs who were thirsty for power and who didn't care about people. French people lost the day Marie A. was murdered.
@@feline-odremercier7321 You must be the one joking. All you ever hear about the French Revolution is the suffering of the poor and how it was the nobility's fault for overspending (often blamed on Marie Antoinette herself, with her infamous (and false!) quote of "let them eat cake).
If you haven’t yet You should recreate Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s 4th wife next. She’s known as the ugliest wife of his, but in the portraits she doesn’t look ugly to me. I’ve always been curious as to what she actually looked like and if Henry was just insane and very judgmental about her appearance.
It's said he dressed as a peasant and snuck into her rooms when she arrived to England and kissed her. He expected to have the same reactions that he used to get when he was young and handsome when he removed his cloak and revealed who he was and he didn't get that. She was shocked and taken a back that some old man would do that to her. So he disliked her from the start because of that. He didn't want everyone knowing she disliked him so he said he disliked her.
Also don't forget that he had a foul smell about him due to the wound on his leg that was rotting and it made her hate being near him. She wasn't 16 either and that old lech couldn't get excited. Crap show all way around. She was a true lady and he knew it.
Way back when, 10+ yrs ago, I was in 8th grade, we had to do a project on a famous villain in my GT class. I remember choosing Marie because I thought it would be fun to reverse the assignment on them. She is famously villainized by history when in reality, she was a victim of propaganda and slander. I just wanted to say that your video is literally everything I wanted my PowerPoint to be and more 😭 It’s so thorough and presents her as a human being instead of an abstract motif of self-indulgence and ignorant bliss that I think a lot of people envision.
"She is famously villainized by history when in reality, she was a victim of propaganda and slander."... I agree one hundred percent! The "elites" have been doing this for centuries and continue to do so today. History has always been written by the victors, not the victims - hopefully one day, the history books will be re-written to reveal the truth.
Marie Antoinette was totally against a constitutional monarchy, she was not so innocent. She knew very well that her apartments and houses were financed by the taxes of the population...
I have always thought that the unnecessary meanness was the torture that it was to be kept alive for months after Louis was executed, when it was clear that she was going to be, as well. How many times she must have prayed that she'd be killed without delay.
For the Republicains of the time, his execution was necessary. The king and queen were seen by many at the time as king "par la Grâce de Dieu", by the will of God). It was necessary to show to the "petit peuple" that they were like the other new citizens. Justiciable and mortal...
She was the queen, if two people needed to be executed at the time, it was them... I mean, i don't see why people are sad for her but not for Louis XVI and all the victims of the revolution.
I remember one of the first things I learned about Marie Antoinette in high school was that she was described as wide-eyed and pretty. I saw the paintings and while I did think she looked relatively beautiful it's difficult to really determine that from a painting. I didn't expect her to look so lovely, and to look exactly as wide-eyed and pretty as I imagined. If she was as sweet and compassionate as she was described, she'd melt just about anyone's heart.
@@kailafagan By the 1700s, art had long become a standardised craft with expected compositions, styles, and looks to them. Groups during the 1800s like the prerafaelites protested this convention by trying to revive the ideas of artists like Holbein and Boticelli.
Proof that she was a beautiful woman. She fascinates the hell out of me!!!! I have at least four biographies about her. I think she was vastly misunderstood. She made many mistakes but I don't consider her a villain at all. I consider her a victim of the times.
I think over the years, people had become more sympathetic toward her, especially now that the infamous "let them eat cake" quote had been disproved as either taken out of context or she never uttered them.
Wow almost sounds like you guys met her. It would be interesting to see you put this much time to studying other historical figures. Some really good fairy tales.
I've always been so fascinated with the Lady Marie and honestly seeing her in your recreations made me just a tiny bit emotional because for the first time she was more than just a tragic figure - she finally felt like a real girl and that just broke me.
I have always felt sorry for Marie and Louis…. He wished to be a locksmith and who was shy and sweet, but also sadly unable to be a strong king. Marie was sent to France to be a kind compliant Queen to live forever away from her home and family. They were sweet children who were in no way prepared to rule a nation beggared by their prior monarchs. 👑✨😢✨👑
Not so true. Louis XVI was not as compliant and shy as we despict him. Maybe as a young king, but he changed. He wanted his place, he didn't want to make concessions and he certainly didn't want to be a locksmith. Feels free to read the works of some historians (can't tell you who, I know some english speakers one are goods but I've read french's one).
that's what happens when you party 100 days n nights long while people are suffering and dying from diseases: and yet you feel sorry for these selfish monarchs ?? I raised my case.
I feel really sad when I think about her. She didn't have the worst life, but she definitely didn't deserve the end she faced. Goes to show how toxic mob mentality can get.
@@serronserron1320 just an FYI. The percentage of people living in abject poverty rose to over 50% after the revolution. So the peasants life was worse after.
Your re-creation truly brought Marie Antoinette to life. The old French artist's stylings seem strange by modern standards and do nothing to humanize her like your renderings. After your history lesson the sight of her in your re-creations literally brought tears to my eyes.
Not a follower of "royals" but your video came on due to the algorithm and I am glad it did. Your reflection on this unfortunate woman "wrong place wrong time" yes and "more sinned against than sinning" - your "real life" presentation at the end was moving.. Under educated, untrained - then wrongfully blamed and hated more than the men with the power... I cannot remember a video that brought tears as this one did. Lovely job - not overly sentimental but compassionate. Thanks
I wish sometimes we could be transported back in time to witness the lives of these monumental historical figures. To see what they really looked like. What their days entailed.
This was very touching setting the record straight. Persecuted for her station in life and a victim of circumstance more than anything. Her countenance is maternal and one of gentleness and kindness. She did not deserve her life to end with such indignity. May you rest in peace. These recreations are stunning and really brings back to life these historic figures.
Bombastic Bushkin Yet The Austrian Ambassador said of Marie Antoinette as Queen, 'The only 'man' in the family' to describe the guts she had. I think she was a pretty strong woman as well as maternal. At one time the French loved her and she's been restored now in any case so I guess many of them do again - with which I for one wholly agree.
I wonder what the world would have been like if Marie was rescued from execution and she edicted a pastry distrubution amongs the impoverished french peasants
The Revolution went totally mad. Executing wives for crying over their husbands execution. Totally innocent commoners over false rumors. And not long after this the highest ranking Revolutionary leader and many other leaders of the Revolution were executed.
Kirsten Dunst's Marie was wonderful as was the movie. A young, beautiful, vulnerable girl, the intrusive, over the top Court, the pressure, I loved it.
I recommend reading Antonia Fraser’s biography of Marie. The movie was based on this book, and watching the movie after reading the book made it even better.
What an attractive young woman. Her portraits make her look plain and decidedly older than her years. I hope she did look as you have portrayed her. What a fantastic job you have done. A master of your craft.
These recreations of famous historical figures literally bring me to tears. I've read about them all of my life (I'm 55) and seeing them literally blinking and smiling is just incredible. Thank you so, so much for your balanced presentations and bringing these people to life. I can't thank you enough!
Oh my goodness she was absolutely beautiful. Her end is so heartbreaking. I feel like it’s not totally her fault. She was brought up to be that way. She was encouraged to live lavishly. However, I do understand why the people of France revolted. I wish so much that she would have had a fair trail without bias. I love your work. You teach me so much. Thank you 😊
Thank you! I totally agree, I understand completely why the revolution happened, why the peasants were so angry. But Marie herself didn’t have much say in what happened and she was used as this scapegoat figurehead.
The revolution, like all revolutions, was the result of the subversive actions of the nobles against the King (duke de Orleans played a significant role in the outbreak of the revolution). Until 1792 the proposed political system of the revolution was Constitutive Monarchy. The massacres that followed August 1792 were the result of Jacobin counter-revolt, that had nothing to do with the Constitution - it was exactly like the Bolshevik coup that abolished the liberal revolution in Russia. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were the victims of the Jacobin coup. That the "people" revolted for their freedom is a nice little democratic fairy tale. Revolutions need organization and , above all, money
Yes, I agree. This is a fascinating and beautifully told history of a woman who was merely a puppet of fate. She had to play her role as best she could and was then betrayed first by her own court and then martyred as a scapegoat for the inequality suffered by the French people at that time.
@@Panos_Stayis Exactly. My favorite book on the circumstances that led up to the French Revolution, "The Reign of Terror", and its aftermath is "An Epitaph for Kings" by Sanche de Gramont. Your synopsis is as he described.
Thank you for going easy on Marie. I feel that many people are way too hard on her, and that her part in what was going on in France at the time wasn't as much as is portrayed. I feel so sad that she lost her life over the situation and was blamed for many things that were not her fault. Being so young and trying to rule a country with another young person would be a daunting task even if you were prepared for the role. I have a soft spot in my heart for her and love your renditions of how she most likely looked
@@RoyaltyNowStudios 💜. If you haven’t read it, Marie Antoinette the journey is a more compassionate story of her. I’m still finishing it and hopefully it will continue to be a good open minded look at her 🙂
You people will spend all this time on Marie, but wouldn’t dare to touch the historic accounts all around us every day if it challenged your thinking. you prefer to have it spoon fed to you. Obsessed to say the least. You wouldn’t want the truth.
Oh my God! That was incredible! Thank you so much for this! I too share your opinion that Marie was far more of a tragic figure than anything else. She received the brunt end of the public's anger at a century's worth of Bourbon mishandling of the state and didn't deserve what she was dealt. While I'm sympathetic for the plight of the poor I have much disdain for the entire revolutionary mob that rose in the aftermath of the downfall of the monarchy. They were fucking animals...the whole lot of them.
It’s very, very easy to identify them with today’s looting and burning mobs, once you learn actual history and peel away the contemporary narrative affixed to it.
The people were treated like animals, while a very few lived in ostentatious splendor. Civilizations would do well to remember that the pendulum swings. Once the apogee of income inequality is reached, down comes the pendulum.
@@Cherrysmith2809 Résultat de ce mouvement pendulaire: la Révolution de 1789 qui enfanta Napoléon qui fit plus de morts à lui seul avec ses guerres impérialistes que tous les rois de France réunis 😉
It’s pretty easy to become animalistic when you’re literally starving. It’s unfortunate and unfair that they were the ultimate scapegoats, but the institution they represented is exactly what caused these people to suffer for so long. Their French predecessors are wholly to blame and not the people who were just trying to do what they felt they had to in order to have a better life. A life that they deserved.
Loved this. One thing to remember is that as the body, in death sets. the fluids will go to the lowest portion of the body, or head in this case. As I'm sure it was put back of neck side down to make the mask. The cartilage end of the nose will droop. I've worked with dead people, as an end of life caregiver. So, lividity is in play. On this talk to an M.E. how it plays into the natural appearance and presentation of flesh. It can make the nose appear more hooked than it actually, in life would have been. Again, great video!
When I decided to homeschool my children, I didn't realize how much I would be learning myself. Channels like this have inspired me to reread chapters of history I thought I knew, opening my eyes to just how human the accounts of times past truly are. Thank you for doing the work you do, I have enjoyed passing these videos on to the new generation of thinkers and feelers.
Right? Same. This video goes to show that history always repeats itself, and that rulers are just puppets on a world stage, that can be turned for, or against, the rulers, by the intentional use of propaganda, by the elites that are the REAL rulers😰
@@BIGRICKWITHABIGDICK They school at home, but they still leave the house and see other people. How do remote online-class students do those things? They still meet up with their friends and still go to class functions.
Oh my, where ARE my tissues! This is the best video on Marie’s life I have seen. The empathy you show to harshly treated royals from history makes me see them in a different light. I am almost in my 60th year so you can imagine what I was taught about history back in the 70s. Thank you for this wonderful video and all the videos that I have yet to watch of yours, which I am so looking forward to watching. I am so glad I found your channel.
Thank you so much, you are so sweet. We really empathize with all of these figures and love bringing them to life. Thank you for enjoying it with us and for taking the time to write the kind words.
As a museum educator, art historian and artist, l LOVE what you do! Thank you and PLEASE, keep up the good work of bringing our historic legends back to life. After all, seeing a Tyrannasaurous Rex' bones is nothing like seeing them fleshed out! 😉
Yes indeed! Even as understandably, some recreations are probably less than perfectly accurate, nevertheless, they do dramatize in powerful way, that famous personages of dead-history, familiar only in framed-paintings or pedestaled-sculptures, were real life flesh and blood humans: persons you would readily-encounter out in the world! Meet in public place, or exchange words with: a bigger than life Julius Caesar in Italy, or behold swan-necked Nefertiti of ancient Egypt! - The artist's life-breathed masterful-portraits, history's figures bring to amazing life, as you well illustrate.
you did a wonderful job. if only marie antoinette could see how lovely you brought het to life. i'm not honna lie, i cried tears of sorrow for the fear she must have felt. espacially because of her children. greetings from austria ❤ 🇦🇹
I’m reading a biography about Marie right now. You’ve really captured her beauty and personality! I love this, she looks just as captivating as she’s said to have been! ❤️
@@gix2lee It’s by Caroline Weber and called: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. It’s really great! I’m about 1/3 through it. It’s extremely humanizing towards her and also really explains the social implications of all her fashion choices, as well as what things made it pretty good impossible for things to have turned out well for her. Just as a quick example, she was heavily criticized for spending so much money on such elaborate, expensive hair and clothing. She then later changed her style intentionally to a much more subdued, simple style that was way less expensive and everyone criticized her for “putting hundreds of dress makers out of business” since she wasn’t buying from them. She literally couldn’t win, it’s quite sad.
Once your artistic realizations came up, the tragedy of her life was immediately discernible in her eyes. They are pensive, a little sad and very determined. She did have her own beauty and there was something touching about it. Thank you once again for your hard work! Beautiful!
I would have fast forward to the end to see the recreation but the whole video was fascinating. Seeing her at the end really felt like seeing her in real life. You have a beautiful gift.
Marie Antoinette travelled through my home region - Black Forest - when she „moved“ to Paris. There are still hotels where she stayed in. In a German documentary it was very interesting to learn how dangerous and challenging it was to cross the mountainous terrain on horse drawn carriages.
Beautifully done in all aspects, a tour de force ..very touching to see her as a woman one could easily see on the streets of any European city ..brought me to tears!
I feel that History has been unfair and unkind to this queen. Misinformation set her up as scapegoat for everything that was wrong. The false accusations against her regarding her children is unconscionable. 😞
*Bravo! Must say how impressed I am with the reconstructions* When we learn history at school it often feels somehow abstract or unreal, and it's all too easy to forget that these people were living, breathing human beings just like us. *This really made me realise how young Marie Antoinette was - seeing a realistic representation of what she looked like in life - to that soundtrack - was surprisingly emotional. I got tears in my eyes*
Why do these reveals make me so emotional? Maybe it’s because you do such an amazing job with the historical aspect that we get to know these figures and they become more human instead of names in boring history books. Love it!
I loved how her story was told and almost came to tears by the end of this video. Everything was beautifully told and her images at the end especially the one with a smile made me feel just a little bit better about her tragic ending. ❤
This video addressed a few things I had been wondering about the creation of a likeness from a painting. 1) Possibly different physical features prevalent during that time 2) How much does the style of painting people possibly alter what they looked like in real life? I'm glad to see some of those questions considered here. I'm really enjoying watching these.
I think they kind of filtered their paintings, to adjust features to what was fashionable, just as people do now. In paintings, it seems like everyone from earlier periods had exactly the same shaped eyes, and hairline etc...
This is so beautiful. I love watching and rewatching the movie, and this is so beautiful and haunting I couldn't look away for the longest time. Thank you for doing this, I loved the storytelling and ofcourse the final reconstruction. You're an amazing artist, keep up the good work.
Love the documentary and the art. Beauty must be in the eye of the beholder. You'd said she wouldn't be considered a classic beauty today, but I think she's stunning. Wow. Impressive work!
@@user-is7xs1mr9y I remember watching a detailed documentary about it, feeling appalled and then willing myself to forget it.. to the extent that, I rewatched this video today with my husband, who asked what happened to her children - all I could remember was something awful! I remember feeling so sad about it all, and sad for Marie, but I can't remember details. And I don't want to look it up.
Your storytelling of the events leading up to the French Revolution are immaculate and make me question why no one has filmed a reenactment from Maria’s pov
It’s amazing watching this and remembering the Sofia Coppola movie. The anachronistic elements actually help to tell the story so that modern people can understand. And it was far more accurate than people think.
Loved this!! I had heard about the quote of "Let them eat cake!"attributed to Marie Antoinette, but hearing that she didn't say that but it was still pinned on her is sad. I was so wrapped up in the history retelling that i forgot there was a recreation of her at the end haha. You guys should do Louis the Great next!! 🤩
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! It is very sad how much got attributed to her. Not to say she was wholly innocent but I genuinely think she was very misunderstood.
@@virginiagobetz9084 Yup! Louis XIV, The Sun King, or Louis the Great. Those were all the names used for the same historical figure who built Versailles. ☺️
Well done. Showing or giving interpretations of a how historic figure may look adds a human dimension to them by making them realistic. It is one thing to read about them in history books, but it is quite another to imagine them as people. Marie was very beautiful lady who lived a sad short life.
What a magical channel you've put together. I'm french and have always had a lot of sympathy for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. It's very emotional to see her face come to life like this. A truly unique experience. Wonderful job. Thank you.
Fascinating story and your recreations are breath-taking. A lovely woman here- I've always felt a great sadness over what happened to her. What great talent, and what ability to use the newest tools of the trade. Marie is said to have aged many years during confinement and she was clearly not the same woman who became Queen so many years before. I only have one thing to add to the history here: 16:05 The dissolution of the monarchy paved the way for the Reign of Terror where large numbers of citizens were guillotined for not following to the "T" the commands of the revolutionaries Robespierre and Marat to force them to carry on the revolution's complete reversal of their French heritage, culture, and lives. The depletion of the population in the following years attests to how many didn't agree with all the totalitarian behaviors of the revolutionaries. Then, it led to the crowning of Emperor Napoleon 12 years later. At that time, Napoleon mustered the largest French army in history to go to the Caribbean islands to restart Slavery. "Free France" did not exist. Edmund Burke was a member of the British Parliament, he commented that while the French revolutionaries may have "subverted monarchy," they had not yet "recovered freedom". While discussing the differences between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, Burke pointed out that, first, Americans did not reject, but fully embraced their English heritage, and second, the War for Independence was about the recovery of law and morality and was carried out in such a way that even members of the British government acknowledged the rationale behind it.
These are so amazing. It is like a miracle to see those portraits give you a real example of what they actually looked like because most of those portraits are not flattering.
I love these recreations of people - it makes me even more fascinated by history than I was before - and that was reasonably intense. Thank you so much for this
I have always been partial to Marie Antionette and her story. I absolutely love the real to life portraits you create. it makes her seem more real. Fascinating!
Thank you for your beautifully spoken words, I can't help notice at how you have such a high regard for people! I'm not really well spoken, all I can say I'm speechless at your sensitivity and compassion.
I really appreciate your work. It humanizes these persons who lived in the past .They were breathing , talking , feeling , eating laughing , crying , feeling pain , pregnant, had babies and living human beings. This makes feel a deep sense of sadness because we end up with the same fate.
How gorgeous! I've always been fascinated with Marie Antoinette. I consider her a victim. Her life had a tragic ending but she lived her life to the fullest. And, we are still talking about her till now. She is a huge part of history.
Gorgeous work! Marie always struck me, and her mother, as an empty-headed party girl. Her mother was forever writing her daughter to take her duties more seriously. Versailles and the debt it incurred was the beginning of the end of the French monarchy. Louis made ,for him,the fatal mistake of helping to underwrite the American War of Independence, piling on even more debt. He helped save us but lost his own crown and his head with it.
Her "mother" basically sold her young, naive, uneducated teenaged daughter to cement a treaty with the French. When she could have saved Marie, she and her son sat on their hands.
@@nadezhdawall-rossi2864 You make a good point but from a modern perspective. Royal daughters were instructed from an early age (then) to be married into nobility. Marie wasn’t good at her studies. You are right about her education but she had plenty of time to mature. She never did. There was always a French prejudice against the Germans/Austrians. Had her mother or brother interfered they could have found themselves at war. Or, a revolution at home. A different time with different expectations.
@@MusMasi Exactly and for American's he is what I feel should be called a marty but none the less long live the king. If it weren't for him we all be talking with a British accent and eating British inspired food all while living under the law of the crown.. What had to be done had to be done because without France help we honestly were going to loose since we had no more money were going to have to forcefully give up but thanks to France were able to carry on troop on & boot the British out thus gaining our freedom pet freedom ring🌈🎉🤓
I follow your IG page and I now saw the YT channel. Your Marie Antoinette recreation is one of my favorites and when you did the one where she smiles I remember crying… just as I did with this video. I also believe she was so unjustly judged and painted as the evil she really wasn’t. One of my favorite books is Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser and it shows you so much of her… you cannot help feel so sorry for her and even more so for her children. This video was amazing and pulled at my heart strings. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous! Long Live the Queen, Marie Antoinette 👑
Antonia Fraser's book about Mary Queen of Scots is also very good. Her life was similiar in that she had no real control over circumstances and was very much used and abused by those around her.
Your channel was recommended to me today, and I’ve been binge watching every episode. I am in awe at your recreations. Absolutely breathtaking. I love that you show them smiling. It really humanizes the portraits 💗
Goodness, she is beautiful! Such kind, sweet eyes. I definitely can picture her being soft spoken and quite caring and kind. I love your channel. Thank you so much for what you do! 🤗
Since I was really young and first learned about her, I was always interested in Marie Antoinette. I read a bunch of historical fiction books about her or even anything that’d feature her as a character. For some reason, though, I always got such a caring, motherly feeling from her portraits and reconstructions. Her record of being compassionate, and her love for her children until the end… she’s almost like a historical mother figure to me, lol.
This is absolutely stunning work! I paint portraits and have thought about going into facial reconstruction in anthropology or forensics. It's wonderful how you can bring them to such a life-like modern look as well as how they would really have looked in their lifetimes.
As lover of both history and face portraiture... I really enjoy these videos. You really bring history alive, not just with the facial recreations, but most especially with your fantastic storytelling!
Wow, so this is the first time I've had the pleasure to watch one of your videos and the concept is just fascinating! Lovely renderings, i can't wait to see more!
Yours is, I believe, the best quality of historical re-creation programs available. This, being attributed to your impeccably composed combinations of literary and artistic presentations. Thank you for your detailed works! I have enjoyed them all!
I love your videos. They are well researched and I like that you bring these historical figures to life. Marie Antoinette was known for her great beauty but the paintings do her no favor. Your video really brings out her beauty. I've seen other videos where they have tried this and it's always fallen flat.
So often a story from history is incomplete- not necessarily on purpose, but maybe lack of research or even curious interest. In a short documentary you've offered a more complete Marie Antoinette than I was aware of- thank you!
Your historical story telling is just wonderful. Thank you so much for enlightening us with all of your research. Your image recreation is just stunning.
She was really quite pretty, I don't know why I am constantly surprised that people that lived in the past do not look any different from people of today? UK
i’ve always loved marie, as a kid i was obsessed with the how they choked/croaked books and marie’s story sparked a hyperfixation, honestly i never knew that people in the modern day thought of her as malicious because i’ve always seen her as in the wrong place at the wrong time, she’s not a hyperfixation anymore but i’ll always have time for a video like this or the marie antoinette movie
Wow. I am moved. This is the first time I'm seeing one your videos, and this has opened a whole new world for me. The recreation at the end almost brought me to tears. Amazing.
Thank you for this, I have been a huge fan of her for such a long time, I’ve read many books about her nonfiction or otherwise and always wondered what she REALLY looked like. I have no problem believing that this rendition of her appearance is probably not too far off from how she really looked based on what I’ve read and seen
My heart is aching I learned about her having the extravagant life while others are starving. Didnt know how she was too young. I feel for their kids. Your recreations are amazing.
What an awesome way to narrate the life of a person who died so long ago, how they managed to show her face from paintings to an actual representation...so amazed got goosebumps, makes u feel u r looking at an actual living person.
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I LOVE your videos. That is all. Royal proclamation over.
Truly amazing.
Does anyone know the song starting 4:35 please? 🙏
Why the LOUD effing music sheesh
Still pretty if you are coming anywhere close. The portraits are likely a French rendition. The French look different from what Marie looked like. Just my experience with the French
one thing this misses is that marie tried to help the poor. even with her poor education, especially on economics and politics, she would listen to what the people were saying, established charities, donated generously, tried to create more well paying jobs, tried to make sure single mothers and their children were cared for, etc. she was a scapegoat forced into a doomed role.
The queen did as good as she could and had managed to raise the quality of life in France.
The usual group of black souls have condemned her by plotting its ruin.
Thank you for allowing the truth to emerge.
As you can see, she doesn't need to be a feminist who screams girl power - just do your part in your environment.
If every woman did this all over the planet, these black souls would run away.
The woman is scary when she lives in grace, because she becomes a protector of her own home and family and she does not allow anything or anyone to get in the way.
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Pretty sure you are mistaken lol … unless the jokes on me and you’re just trolling ….. is it the ladder of those two ? 😂 🤦♂️ 😉
@@jburton413 1. it's latter, not ladder, and 2. no, this is true. her king-husband was super useless, so she tried to hold meetings to come up with ideas to supply food to help the famine.
I saw her death mask many years ago and thought she was really prettier than her portraits. Your recreation using the combination of her death mask and portraits say it all. She was really very beautiful.
It's good that the head was chopped off and preserved then.
sometimes all that inbreeding is not noticable
@ali kamal she never said let them eat cake though
That just confirms my comment above Carol. 😆 That the artists could only paint 'one' type of face! whether male (change nose a bit) otherwise female, child or baby just change the size of head! 2:26
She looks average.Let's be honest. She was extremely confident and could charm people,but physically she wasn't insanely beautiful. The same goes with Cleopatra.They weren't beauties.
Even from her death mask, you can see she was quite beautiful. I read a wonderful biography of her that was based on the weekly letters she wrote to her mother. It gave an incredible insight into court manoeuvrings and the prejudice and jealousy she faced. She and Louis were quite simple people, and highly unsuited to the role they were expected to play. A truly tragic story.
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@@michealphilips18 ???
Yes, but included in those letters were rather explicit passages detailing her intimate life with Louis XVI. While some may consider this to have lurid and inappropriate for a parent and child to discuss, it must be kept in mind that the ultimate marital goal of the daughter of the Empress of the Holy Roman and Austrian Empires bearing an unquestionable legit son +heir for the King of France made Louis and M.A.'s intimate life a literal matter of state. Thus, had Louis not had an operation to cure a painful growth that kept him from enjoying his marriage (and siring offspring) this could have resulted in an annulment and/or worsened international relations between the French and Austrian governments! Of course, when MA DID become pregnant and bore her children, so many court officials,clerics, in-laws,etc. crowded around her childbed that she fainted- not from the labor or birth itself but from the incredibly cramped and stuffy air that resulted from all these men gawking at her to make sure the Queen of France bore the next Dauphin and it was NOT a 'warming pan baby' smuggled in.
@@wardarcade7452 Yeah, that was included in the book. Louis’ problem was hindering their ability to consummate the marriage. I remember her being anxious about having her sheets checked every day for virginal blood. So much pressure on such young people.
Hi! Can u send the link of this biography or even the title of the book?
Given this recreation, I’d say Marie would be considered a beauty in every era.
most of her reacreations veer a bit too positive. it's unrealistic that all the princesses were actual beauties.
That Hapsburg jaw!
If the recreation is accurate, she looks rather homely. She’d be average by modern standards; especially against the beauties from the 1950s.
Except for being fat...but that was normal among nobles.
@@chickenlover657 It wasn't fat, but a bit paunchy.
The historical research you do is amazing. But the art work you do is always impeccable. It made me see Marie as a completely different person than what I was told in our history books.
Thank you so much!
I often defend Marie when others try to paint her as the “bad guy.” I have an old book on French history, and she is much maligned in it. It wasn’t until recently that her history is being revised to be more realistic.
Your gentle heart is seen in your masterpieces.
Read pawns in the game by William Guy Carr. It is the hidden history of most world conflicts including the French revolution. The world we see today is all a bankers trick.
I read it a long time ago..ty Foxe's book of martyrs is a good one for you.
I want everyone to know there is a “condition” that’s named after Marie called ”Marie Antoinette Syndrome” (or close to it) that is said to occur under extreme stress of both body and mind where your hair goes completely stark white/grey. This happened to her while she was imprisoned. Largely due to the rumors and horrors spread regarding falsities about neglect/s*xual abuse she did to her son (which were in no way true) that her son was forced to confirm under duress. Which I thought was horrific when I found out because she loved her kids and sucked that she was tormented to such a degree.
Rulers at that time rarely even saw their kids, lol. They were generally raised by servants, often in completely different locations.
@@Tugela60 Marie played an active part in help raising her kids even when it was frowned upon
@@teabearrrrrrrrrrr Sure she did. As in she saw them once a week instead of once a year as was the norm at the time, lol.
I knew a ww2 pilot who experienced that at the age of 19.
@@Tugela60 have you not learn or researched anything on the women??? I'm starting feel like you haven't
There was no doubt she loved her children and what happened to her son Louis-Charles is heartbreaking. I can't imagine her suffering when they took him away and she could hear him crying out for her. And then to hear from her young son his accusations of sexual abuse by her and his aunt. Unimaginable.
Don't you think her trial was controlled by pedophiles even then? I wish I could understand the fascination with this royal. What are people wanting from her?
Wdym sa accusations if you don’t mind me asking?
@@shaquille.oatmeal871 her son was forced by his jailers to say that he was sexually abused by his mother and aunts, though it was false
@@littlestar5994 And even the revolution supporting women knew that was too far.
But in the end, she gave proof to his fate- or rather her hair did. There was a locket of her hair that has been preserved (it seems she was a redhead, BTW) and the DNA from this hair proved that the young boy who died in the Temple after having been so brutalized and tortured by his captured WAS, in fact the onetime Dauphin and nominal Louis XVII. There had been rumors for the past two centuries that the boy had been spirited away and survived under a new identity but these have now been disproven via science!
I cannot understand why I get so emotional at the life like images; it is as if I am seeing them again alive after a long absence. Your work is amazing to say the least.
It's more the opposite for me. For me, all this is superfluous, unnecessary and it does not give me anything, in fact, on the contrary.
It's almost like putting Crocs on her feet and saying, this is what she would look like today.
I don't need to hear Mona Lisa's "voice" or watch Marie Antoinette roll her plastic eyes.
Still, I respect the hours the author has put into the work, but I ended up here by accident and will limit myself to this one visit.
I get emotional too. This work of art is so beautiful.
Yes I get emotional also. When I saw Marie's face I said to myself "I know that girl".
I agree...it's heart wrenching 💔
@spazmonkey3815 I think there are many girls who are like this you see..we all know a women and girls like this...we just have to open our eyes and there they are 😢
This ending literally brought me to tears.
She was beautiful and to see the way you brought her back to life was awe inspiring. Amazing!
The ending really does make you feel sad for her, especially those last words, she didn't really do much wrong and anything that was wrong was probably because she was too young.
Therse we go, passing out the "too young" card like its candy 😒... it's easy isn't not owning ones own s**t in life but always blaming it being "too young" @katedp7825
@@ArtsyStudios She was a child when she was married to Louis and a child when she became queen. She was absolutely and completely sheltered from normal people,and never knew any other life.
It’s so sad that no one really remembers all of the good things Marie Antoinette tried to do as Queen of France.
She really was an incredibly kind and caring person though not many people know that about her. There was one instance she gave all of her personal “allowance” to help a village that had been destroyed by a cattle stampede and many people had been injured/killed. She is reported to have told her children at Christmas time “now you understand that the winter was very hard and the harvest was not good, there are many of our people who are suffering, so Mummy has spent all her money to help them, so there will be no Christmas gifts this year”
@ MitchPRO8. Thank you for telling this about Queen Marie-Antoinette. I've never heard of this, and it makes me happy to learn of all the good things she did in her short life.
That " revolution" was fuel with envy and greedy. Then the winners rewrite the History.
France needed a change that day but not the control of a group of assassins of monarchs who were thirsty for power and who didn't care about people.
French people lost the day Marie A. was murdered.
@@feline-odremercier7321 You must be the one joking. All you ever hear about the French Revolution is the suffering of the poor and how it was the nobility's fault for overspending (often blamed on Marie Antoinette herself, with her infamous (and false!) quote of "let them eat cake).
Thanks to the "Humanists."
If you haven’t yet You should recreate Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII’s 4th wife next. She’s known as the ugliest wife of his, but in the portraits she doesn’t look ugly to me. I’ve always been curious as to what she actually looked like and if Henry was just insane and very judgmental about her appearance.
It's said he dressed as a peasant and snuck into her rooms when she arrived to England and kissed her. He expected to have the same reactions that he used to get when he was young and handsome when he removed his cloak and revealed who he was and he didn't get that. She was shocked and taken a back that some old man would do that to her. So he disliked her from the start because of that. He didn't want everyone knowing she disliked him so he said he disliked her.
There's a video out on Anne of Cleves now!
Also don't forget that he had a foul smell about him due to the wound on his leg that was rotting and it made her hate being near him. She wasn't 16 either and that old lech couldn't get excited. Crap show all way around. She was a true lady and he knew it.
The rumor is he couldn't perform and blamed it on her appearance to save his reputation
She was plain. Those portraits were commisioned, and commisioned work at the time was ALLWAYS flattering.
Way back when, 10+ yrs ago, I was in 8th grade, we had to do a project on a famous villain in my GT class. I remember choosing Marie because I thought it would be fun to reverse the assignment on them. She is famously villainized by history when in reality, she was a victim of propaganda and slander. I just wanted to say that your video is literally everything I wanted my PowerPoint to be and more 😭 It’s so thorough and presents her as a human being instead of an abstract motif of self-indulgence and ignorant bliss that I think a lot of people envision.
"She is famously villainized by history when in reality, she was a victim of propaganda and slander."... I agree one hundred percent! The "elites" have been doing this for centuries and continue to do so today. History has always been written by the victors, not the victims - hopefully one day, the history books will be re-written to reveal the truth.
I have always felt her execution was such an unnecessary meanness. She always struck me as quite lovely. Your reconstruction is wonderful.
Marie Antoinette was totally against a constitutional monarchy, she was not so innocent. She knew very well that her apartments and houses were financed by the taxes of the population...
I have always thought that the unnecessary meanness was the torture that it was to be kept alive for months after Louis was executed, when it was clear that she was going to be, as well. How many times she must have prayed that she'd be killed without delay.
Do you know that the innocent children died in france because of famine! While those royal fuckers were busy partying while wearing their diamonds…….
For the Republicains of the time, his execution was necessary. The king and queen were seen by many at the time as king "par la Grâce de Dieu", by the will of God). It was necessary to show to the "petit peuple" that they were like the other new citizens. Justiciable and mortal...
She was the queen, if two people needed to be executed at the time, it was them... I mean, i don't see why people are sad for her but not for Louis XVI and all the victims of the revolution.
I remember one of the first things I learned about Marie Antoinette in high school was that she was described as wide-eyed and pretty. I saw the paintings and while I did think she looked relatively beautiful it's difficult to really determine that from a painting.
I didn't expect her to look so lovely, and to look exactly as wide-eyed and pretty as I imagined. If she was as sweet and compassionate as she was described, she'd melt just about anyone's heart.
With the notable exception of the mob who killed her.
@@evegreenification Yup. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
it's crazy how Hans Holbein painted much more realistically in the 1500's than whoever created Marie's 1700's styled paintings.
She was a scapegoat for the revolution. A victim of her time.
@@kailafagan By the 1700s, art had long become a standardised craft with expected compositions, styles, and looks to them. Groups during the 1800s like the prerafaelites protested this convention by trying to revive the ideas of artists like Holbein and Boticelli.
Proof that she was a beautiful woman. She fascinates the hell out of me!!!! I have at least four biographies about her. I think she was vastly misunderstood. She made many mistakes but I don't consider her a villain at all. I consider her a victim of the times.
I think over the years, people had become more sympathetic toward her, especially now that the infamous "let them eat cake" quote had been disproved as either taken out of context or she never uttered them.
This is just fascist propaganda. Royalty is evil, and the royals were always uglier than their ugliest portrait.
@@PungiFungi she never uttered them. It was a statement made before she was even born. Anti-royalists pushed that rumor.
Wow almost sounds like you guys met her. It would be interesting to see you put this much time to studying other historical figures. Some really good fairy tales.
@@kaliprc why you gotta bash on people’s passions like that? Go home dude.
I've always been so fascinated with the Lady Marie and honestly seeing her in your recreations made me just a tiny bit emotional because for the first time she was more than just a tragic figure - she finally felt like a real girl and that just broke me.
I actually started tearing up. After a lifetime of hearing of her only as a villainess, seeing her as the girl she was just broke me
I have always felt sorry for Marie and Louis…. He wished to be a locksmith and who was shy and sweet, but also sadly unable to be a strong king. Marie was sent to France to be a kind compliant Queen to live forever away from her home and family. They were sweet children who were in no way prepared to rule a nation beggared by their prior monarchs. 👑✨😢✨👑
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It means democracy was needed! Someone of talents should be voted to lead a nation, big or small.
@@hanaluong2672 hello how are you doing today
Not so true. Louis XVI was not as compliant and shy as we despict him. Maybe as a young king, but he changed. He wanted his place, he didn't want to make concessions and he certainly didn't want to be a locksmith. Feels free to read the works of some historians (can't tell you who, I know some english speakers one are goods but I've read french's one).
that's what happens when you party 100 days n nights long while people are suffering and dying from diseases: and yet you feel sorry for these selfish monarchs ?? I raised my case.
I feel really sad when I think about her. She didn't have the worst life, but she definitely didn't deserve the end she faced. Goes to show how toxic mob mentality can get.
Perhaps but her tragic end was quite a mercy compared to the ordinary life of most French people at the time.
@@serronserron1320 It's not a competition.
We've got them again here in the US
@@KoongYe He didn't say it was.
@@serronserron1320 just an FYI. The percentage of people living in abject poverty rose to over 50% after the revolution. So the peasants life was worse after.
Your re-creation truly brought Marie Antoinette to life. The old French artist's stylings seem strange by modern standards and do nothing to humanize her like your renderings. After your history lesson the sight of her in your re-creations literally brought tears to my eyes.
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We literally do the same thing now with filters, we aren’t better than our ancestors when it comes to beauty standards
I wish she was some how brought back to life and alive again
Not a follower of "royals" but your video came on due to the algorithm and I am glad it did. Your reflection on this unfortunate woman "wrong place wrong time" yes and "more sinned against than sinning" - your "real life" presentation at the end was moving.. Under educated, untrained - then wrongfully blamed and hated more than the men with the power... I cannot remember a video that brought tears as this one did. Lovely job - not overly sentimental but compassionate. Thanks
I wish sometimes we could be transported back in time to witness the lives of these monumental historical figures. To see what they really looked like. What their days entailed.
Me too!! I have always dreamed of that since I was a little girl.
Me too !
Same!
No, you don't. Most of the French then were beyond poor.
@@yvonneplant9434 are you French ?
This was very touching setting the record straight. Persecuted for her station in life and a victim of circumstance more than anything. Her countenance is maternal and one of gentleness and kindness. She did not deserve her life to end with such indignity. May you rest in peace. These recreations are stunning and really brings back to life these historic figures.
Bombastic Bushkin Yet The Austrian Ambassador said of Marie Antoinette as Queen, 'The only 'man' in the family' to describe the guts she had. I think she was a pretty strong woman as well as maternal. At one time the French loved her and she's been restored now in any case so I guess many of them do again - with which I for one wholly agree.
I wonder what the world would have been like if Marie was rescued from execution and she edicted a pastry distrubution amongs the impoverished french peasants
The Revolution went totally mad. Executing wives for crying over their husbands execution. Totally innocent commoners over false rumors. And not long after this the highest ranking Revolutionary leader and many other leaders of the Revolution were executed.
When they smile ...it's impossible not to smile back ..
you told their story ..thank you
These are beautiful, thank you! She's one of my favorite historical figures.
Kirsten Dunst's Marie was wonderful as was the movie. A young, beautiful, vulnerable girl, the intrusive, over the top Court, the pressure, I loved it.
Yes! I love the movie too
@@RoyaltyNowStudios I'm so glad, and I love your work. Thank you for your time and artistic endeavor, we are better for it. Much success to you !! Pat
I recommend reading Antonia Fraser’s biography of Marie. The movie was based on this book, and watching the movie after reading the book made it even better.
@@AmberBocks3000 I just came to comment the same thing. Antonia Fraser's book is so detailed yet readable. She really brings her subjects to life.
Yes, I totally agree. When I think of Marie, I think of Kirsten Dunst 😊👏
What an attractive young woman. Her portraits make her look plain and decidedly older than her years. I hope she did look as you have portrayed her. What a fantastic job you have done. A master of your craft.
These recreations of famous historical figures literally bring me to tears. I've read about them all of my life (I'm 55) and seeing them literally blinking and smiling is just incredible. Thank you so, so much for your balanced presentations and bringing these people to life. I can't thank you enough!
Something so moving about this way of expressing figures in the past. Well done. Look forward to more. ❤❤
Oh my goodness she was absolutely beautiful. Her end is so heartbreaking. I feel like it’s not totally her fault. She was brought up to be that way. She was encouraged to live lavishly. However, I do understand why the people of France revolted. I wish so much that she would have had a fair trail without bias. I love your work. You teach me so much. Thank you 😊
Thank you! I totally agree, I understand completely why the revolution happened, why the peasants were so angry. But Marie herself didn’t have much say in what happened and she was used as this scapegoat figurehead.
The revolution, like all revolutions, was the result of the subversive actions of the nobles against the King (duke de Orleans played a significant role in the outbreak of the revolution). Until 1792 the proposed political system of the revolution was Constitutive Monarchy. The massacres that followed August 1792 were the result of Jacobin counter-revolt, that had nothing to do with the Constitution - it was exactly like the Bolshevik coup that abolished the liberal revolution in Russia. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were the victims of the Jacobin coup.
That the "people" revolted for their freedom is a nice little democratic fairy tale. Revolutions need organization and , above all, money
Yes, I agree. This is a fascinating and beautifully told history of a woman who was merely a puppet of fate. She had to play her role as best she could and was then betrayed first by her own court and then martyred as a scapegoat for the inequality suffered by the French people at that time.
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Exactly.
My favorite book on the circumstances that led up to the French Revolution, "The Reign of Terror", and its aftermath is "An Epitaph for Kings" by Sanche de Gramont. Your synopsis is as he described.
@@lobomedina6312 I 've read Nesta Webster's French Revolution. Its references in primary sources are exhaustive
Thank you for going easy on Marie. I feel that many people are way too hard on her, and that her part in what was going on in France at the time wasn't as much as is portrayed. I feel so sad that she lost her life over the situation and was blamed for many things that were not her fault. Being so young and trying to rule a country with another young person would be a daunting task even if you were prepared for the role. I have a soft spot in my heart for her and love your renditions of how she most likely looked
I have a soft spot for her as well ❤️ I thought people would attack me for being too sympathetic. I’m glad that people feel the same way.
@@RoyaltyNowStudios 💜. If you haven’t read it, Marie Antoinette the journey is a more compassionate story of her. I’m still finishing it and hopefully it will continue to be a good open minded look at her 🙂
I love the music in the background, it added a great touch to the overall program - what is name of the music and who performed it?
@@deborahfedge4272 it’s unfortunately not commercially available - it’s from our stock music subscription!
You people will spend all this time on Marie, but wouldn’t dare to touch the historic accounts all around us every day if it challenged your thinking. you prefer to have it spoon fed to you. Obsessed to say the least. You wouldn’t want the truth.
Oh my God! That was incredible! Thank you so much for this! I too share your opinion that Marie was far more of a tragic figure than anything else. She received the brunt end of the public's anger at a century's worth of Bourbon mishandling of the state and didn't deserve what she was dealt. While I'm sympathetic for the plight of the poor I have much disdain for the entire revolutionary mob that rose in the aftermath of the downfall of the monarchy. They were fucking animals...the whole lot of them.
It’s very, very easy to identify them with today’s looting and burning mobs, once you learn actual history and peel away the contemporary narrative affixed to it.
The people were treated like animals, while a very few lived in ostentatious splendor. Civilizations would do well to remember that the pendulum swings. Once the apogee of income inequality is reached, down comes the pendulum.
No… they were people. People crazed by hunger, insecurity, poverty, fear. People ARE animals. Never forget that.
@@Cherrysmith2809 Résultat de ce mouvement pendulaire: la Révolution de 1789 qui enfanta Napoléon qui fit plus de morts à lui seul avec ses guerres impérialistes que tous les rois de France réunis 😉
It’s pretty easy to become animalistic when you’re literally starving. It’s unfortunate and unfair that they were the ultimate scapegoats, but the institution they represented is exactly what caused these people to suffer for so long. Their French predecessors are wholly to blame and not the people who were just trying to do what they felt they had to in order to have a better life. A life that they deserved.
Loved this. One thing to remember is that as the body, in death sets. the fluids will go to the lowest portion of the body, or head in this case. As I'm sure it was put back of neck side down to make the mask. The cartilage end of the nose will droop. I've worked with dead people, as an end of life caregiver. So, lividity is in play. On this talk to an M.E. how it plays into the natural appearance and presentation of flesh. It can make the nose appear more hooked than it actually, in life would have been. Again, great video!
When I decided to homeschool my children, I didn't realize how much I would be learning myself. Channels like this have inspired me to reread chapters of history I thought I knew, opening my eyes to just how human the accounts of times past truly are. Thank you for doing the work you do, I have enjoyed passing these videos on to the new generation of thinkers and feelers.
If you go with the flow, you'll always be blessed with the silver lining
Right? Same. This video goes to show that history always repeats itself, and that rulers are just puppets on a world stage, that can be turned for, or against, the rulers, by the intentional use of propaganda, by the elites that are the REAL rulers😰
Homeschooling is the best isn't it? ❤️🥰❤️
How are your homeschooled kids gonna have there first time boyfriend and girlfriend?, prom?
@@BIGRICKWITHABIGDICK They school at home, but they still leave the house and see other people. How do remote online-class students do those things? They still meet up with their friends and still go to class functions.
Oh my, where ARE my tissues! This is the best video on Marie’s life I have seen. The empathy you show to harshly treated royals from history makes me see them in a different light. I am almost in my 60th year so you can imagine what I was taught about history back in the 70s.
Thank you for this wonderful video and all the videos that I have yet to watch of yours, which I am so looking forward to watching. I am so glad I found your channel.
Thank you so much, you are so sweet. We really empathize with all of these figures and love bringing them to life. Thank you for enjoying it with us and for taking the time to write the kind words.
As a museum educator, art historian and artist, l LOVE what you do! Thank you and PLEASE, keep up the good work of bringing our historic legends back to life. After all, seeing a Tyrannasaurous Rex' bones is nothing like seeing them fleshed out! 😉
Agree, but your comparison is a bit misplaced... Greetings from France 🇩🇪🇨🇵
Yes indeed! Even as understandably, some recreations are probably less than perfectly accurate, nevertheless, they do dramatize in powerful way, that famous personages of dead-history, familiar only in framed-paintings or pedestaled-sculptures, were real life flesh and blood humans: persons you would readily-encounter out in the world! Meet in public place, or exchange words with: a bigger than life Julius Caesar in Italy, or behold swan-necked Nefertiti of ancient Egypt! - The artist's life-breathed masterful-portraits, history's figures bring to amazing life, as you well illustrate.
you did a wonderful job. if only marie antoinette could see how lovely you brought het to life. i'm not honna lie, i cried tears of sorrow for the fear she must have felt. espacially because of her children. greetings from austria ❤ 🇦🇹
Beautifully done. After all these years if reading about her, it gave me a sense of peace to finally see her real face.
I’m reading a biography about Marie right now. You’ve really captured her beauty and personality! I love this, she looks just as captivating as she’s said to have been! ❤️
Thank you so much!
When the narrator said she was "quite pretty", to me that was an understatement.
What biography of Marie Antoinette are you reading??
@@gix2lee It’s by Caroline Weber and called: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. It’s really great! I’m about 1/3 through it. It’s extremely humanizing towards her and also really explains the social implications of all her fashion choices, as well as what things made it pretty good impossible for things to have turned out well for her. Just as a quick example, she was heavily criticized for spending so much money on such elaborate, expensive hair and clothing. She then later changed her style intentionally to a much more subdued, simple style that was way less expensive and everyone criticized her for “putting hundreds of dress makers out of business” since she wasn’t buying from them. She literally couldn’t win, it’s quite sad.
@@sarahallegra6239 thank you for sharing. 👍🏼
Once your artistic realizations came up, the tragedy of her life was immediately discernible in her eyes. They are pensive, a little sad and very determined. She did have her own beauty and there was something touching about it.
Thank you once again for your hard work! Beautiful!
Oh my gosh! I got goosebumps when you revealed your rendition of her. Amazing!
I would have fast forward to the end to see the recreation but the whole video was fascinating. Seeing her at the end really felt like seeing her in real life. You have a beautiful gift.
Marie Antoinette travelled through my home region - Black Forest - when she „moved“ to Paris. There are still hotels where she stayed in. In a German documentary it was very interesting to learn how dangerous and challenging it was to cross the mountainous terrain on horse drawn carriages.
Wow, that is really cool! read it took her 24 days of travel to reach Versailles.
Ngl, I’ve always wanted to see the Black Forest
Beautifully done in all aspects, a tour de force ..very touching to see her as a woman one could easily see on the streets of any European city ..brought me to tears!
I feel that History has been unfair and unkind to this queen. Misinformation set her up as scapegoat for everything that was wrong. The false accusations against her regarding her children is unconscionable. 😞
*Bravo! Must say how impressed I am with the reconstructions*
When we learn history at school it often feels somehow abstract or unreal, and it's all too easy to forget that these people were living, breathing human beings just like us.
*This really made me realise how young Marie Antoinette was - seeing a realistic representation of what she looked like in life - to that soundtrack - was surprisingly emotional. I got tears in my eyes*
Truly incredible recreation! A tragic figure she was. You honored her memory by restoring her so beautifully.
I’m so glad that RUclips recommended your channel. I look forward to watching all of your videos.
Thank you for creating this video.
This is one of my many PAST LIVES.
I still get the occasional flashbacks.
What an amazing job. You not only brought her to life digitally, but you also brought her to life telling her story. Just amazing!
Thank you!
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@@michealphilips18 Gooood, you?
Why do these reveals make me so emotional? Maybe it’s because you do such an amazing job with the historical aspect that we get to know these figures and they become more human instead of names in boring history books. Love it!
It's just like suddenly they're not a museum piece but regular humans, just like any of us...
I loved how her story was told and almost came to tears by the end of this video. Everything was beautifully told and her images at the end especially the one with a smile made me feel just a little bit better about her tragic ending. ❤
Thank you so much for going into Marie's story and upbringing, rather than telling the standard story of the heartless queen. Your work is amazing!
Thank you so much ❤️❤️
This video addressed a few things I had been wondering about the creation of a likeness from a painting. 1) Possibly different physical features prevalent during that time 2) How much does the style of painting people possibly alter what they looked like in real life? I'm glad to see some of those questions considered here. I'm really enjoying watching these.
I think they kind of filtered their paintings, to adjust features to what was fashionable, just as people do now. In paintings, it seems like everyone from earlier periods had exactly the same shaped eyes, and hairline etc...
This is so beautiful. I love watching and rewatching the movie, and this is so beautiful and haunting I couldn't look away for the longest time. Thank you for doing this, I loved the storytelling and ofcourse the final reconstruction. You're an amazing artist, keep up the good work.
The recreation at the end of this video caught my breath. How amazing. Thank you for such brilliant content! 😌
Love the documentary and the art. Beauty must be in the eye of the beholder. You'd said she wouldn't be considered a classic beauty today, but I think she's stunning. Wow. Impressive work!
My heart really goes out to her, even more so for her children.
Especially the poor little son, who was so abused he lost his sanity.
What they did to her children and especially her son was so unbelievably cruel
@@nerdyandweirdybutmighty5256 I don't know what they did to them, but judging by your comment, I don't think I want to know.
@@user-is7xs1mr9y I remember watching a detailed documentary about it, feeling appalled and then willing myself to forget it.. to the extent that, I rewatched this video today with my husband, who asked what happened to her children - all I could remember was something awful! I remember feeling so sad about it all, and sad for Marie, but I can't remember details. And I don't want to look it up.
you realize theyve all been dead for hundreds of years right.
I absolutely LOVE this channel! It not only provides you with amazing history but then hands over the pictures in your head to go with it.
Thank you for giving her a voice, and telling her side of the story.
Your storytelling of the events leading up to the French Revolution are immaculate and make me question why no one has filmed a reenactment from Maria’s pov
It’s amazing watching this and remembering the Sofia Coppola movie. The anachronistic elements actually help to tell the story so that modern people can understand. And it was far more accurate than people think.
Loved this!! I had heard about the quote of "Let them eat cake!"attributed to Marie Antoinette, but hearing that she didn't say that but it was still pinned on her is sad. I was so wrapped up in the history retelling that i forgot there was a recreation of her at the end haha. You guys should do Louis the Great next!! 🤩
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! It is very sad how much got attributed to her. Not to say she was wholly innocent but I genuinely think she was very misunderstood.
Marie Antoinette was really pretty what a shame that her fate was so tragic
Who was Louis the Great? The Sun King (who built Versailles) was Louis XIV.
@@virginiagobetz9084 Yup! Louis XIV, The Sun King, or Louis the Great. Those were all the names used for the same historical figure who built Versailles. ☺️
Well done. Showing or giving interpretations of a how historic figure may look adds a human dimension to them by making them realistic. It is one thing to read about them in history books, but it is quite another to imagine them as people. Marie was very beautiful lady who lived a sad short life.
What a magical channel you've put together. I'm french and have always had a lot of sympathy for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. It's very emotional to see her face come to life like this. A truly unique experience. Wonderful job. Thank you.
Fascinating story and your recreations are breath-taking. A lovely woman here- I've always felt a great sadness over what happened to her. What great talent, and what ability to use the newest tools of the trade. Marie is said to have aged many years during confinement and she was clearly not the same woman who became Queen so many years before.
I only have one thing to add to the history here: 16:05 The dissolution of the monarchy paved the way for the Reign of Terror where large numbers of citizens were guillotined for not following to the "T" the commands of the revolutionaries Robespierre and Marat to force them to carry on the revolution's complete reversal of their French heritage, culture, and lives. The depletion of the population in the following years attests to how many didn't agree with all the totalitarian behaviors of the revolutionaries. Then, it led to the crowning of Emperor Napoleon 12 years later. At that time, Napoleon mustered the largest French army in history to go to the Caribbean islands to restart Slavery. "Free France" did not exist.
Edmund Burke was a member of the British Parliament, he commented that while the French revolutionaries may have "subverted monarchy," they had not yet "recovered freedom". While discussing the differences between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, Burke pointed out that, first, Americans did not reject, but fully embraced their English heritage, and second, the War for Independence was about the recovery of law and morality and was carried out in such a way that even members of the British government acknowledged the rationale behind it.
These are so amazing. It is like a miracle to see those portraits give you a real example of what they actually looked like because most of those portraits are not flattering.
I love these recreations of people - it makes me even more fascinated by history than I was before - and that was reasonably intense. Thank you so much for this
Omg that was the best recreation faces I've seen thus far! Absolutely believable!! Incredible!!!!
I have always been partial to Marie Antionette and her story. I absolutely love the real to life portraits you create. it makes her seem more real. Fascinating!
I was in complete awe when the recreation of her started moving. Such beautiful work!
Thank you!
Thank you for your beautifully spoken words, I can't help notice at how you have such a high regard for people! I'm not really well spoken, all I can say I'm speechless at your sensitivity and compassion.
I really appreciate your work. It humanizes these persons who lived in the past .They were breathing , talking , feeling , eating laughing , crying , feeling pain , pregnant, had babies and living human beings. This makes feel a deep sense of sadness because we end up with the same fate.
How gorgeous! I've always been fascinated with Marie Antoinette. I consider her a victim. Her life had a tragic ending but she lived her life to the fullest. And, we are still talking about her till now. She is a huge part of history.
The recreations are absolutely amazing and really make these historical people come to life once more and make them more real
Your recreations bring historical personalities to life. Truly amazing.
Gorgeous work! Marie always struck me, and her mother, as an empty-headed party girl. Her mother was forever writing her daughter to take her duties more seriously. Versailles and the debt it incurred was the beginning of the end of the French monarchy. Louis made ,for him,the fatal mistake of helping to underwrite the American War of Independence, piling on even more debt. He helped save us but lost his own crown and his head with it.
Her "mother" basically sold her young, naive, uneducated teenaged daughter to cement a treaty with the French. When she could have saved Marie, she and her son sat on their hands.
@@nadezhdawall-rossi2864 You make a good point but from a modern perspective. Royal daughters were instructed from an early age (then) to be married into nobility. Marie wasn’t good at her studies. You are right about her education but she had plenty of time to mature. She never did. There was always a French prejudice against the Germans/Austrians. Had her mother or brother interfered they could have found themselves at war.
Or, a revolution at home. A different time with different expectations.
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well he helped bring freedom from demonic monarchy to both countries LONG LIVE THE KING!!! lol.
@@MusMasi Exactly and for American's he is what I feel should be called a marty but none the less long live the king. If it weren't for him we all be talking with a British accent and eating British inspired food all while living under the law of the crown.. What had to be done had to be done because without France help we honestly were going to loose since we had no more money were going to have to forcefully give up but thanks to France were able to carry on troop on & boot the British out thus gaining our freedom pet freedom ring🌈🎉🤓
I follow your IG page and I now saw the YT channel. Your Marie Antoinette recreation is one of my favorites and when you did the one where she smiles I remember crying… just as I did with this video. I also believe she was so unjustly judged and painted as the evil she really wasn’t. One of my favorite books is Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser and it shows you so much of her… you cannot help feel so sorry for her and even more so for her children. This video was amazing and pulled at my heart strings. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous! Long Live the Queen, Marie Antoinette 👑
Antonia Fraser's book about Mary Queen of Scots is also very good. Her life was similiar in that she had no real control over circumstances and was very much used and abused by those around her.
Your channel was recommended to me today, and I’ve been binge watching every episode. I am in awe at your recreations. Absolutely breathtaking. I love that you show them smiling. It really humanizes the portraits 💗
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Goodness, she is beautiful! Such kind, sweet eyes. I definitely can picture her being soft spoken and quite caring and kind.
I love your channel. Thank you so much for what you do! 🤗
Since I was really young and first learned about her, I was always interested in Marie Antoinette. I read a bunch of historical fiction books about her or even anything that’d feature her as a character. For some reason, though, I always got such a caring, motherly feeling from her portraits and reconstructions. Her record of being compassionate, and her love for her children until the end… she’s almost like a historical mother figure to me, lol.
This is absolutely stunning work! I paint portraits and have thought about going into facial reconstruction in anthropology or forensics. It's wonderful how you can bring them to such a life-like modern look as well as how they would really have looked in their lifetimes.
As lover of both history and face portraiture... I really enjoy these videos. You really bring history alive, not just with the facial recreations, but most especially with your fantastic storytelling!
Wow, so this is the first time I've had the pleasure to watch one of your videos and the concept is just fascinating! Lovely renderings, i can't wait to see more!
Yours is, I believe, the best quality of historical re-creation programs available. This, being attributed to your impeccably composed combinations of literary and artistic presentations. Thank you for your detailed works! I have enjoyed them all!
Thank you so much! We work so hard behind the scenes for you guys and comments like these make it all worth it :)
I love your videos. They are well researched and I like that you bring these historical figures to life. Marie Antoinette was known for her great beauty but the paintings do her no favor. Your video really brings out her beauty. I've seen other videos where they have tried this and it's always fallen flat.
So often a story from history is incomplete- not necessarily on purpose, but maybe lack of research or even curious interest. In a short documentary you've offered a more complete Marie Antoinette than I was aware of- thank you!
She is quite beautiful. Wonderfully done video and the recreations are stunning. Thank you.
We need an episode on Maria Teresa who seems like a hidden figure in history.
Your historical story telling is just wonderful. Thank you so much for enlightening us with all of your research. Your image recreation is just stunning.
She was really quite pretty, I don't know why I am constantly surprised that people that lived in the past do not look any different from people of today? UK
Me too! Haha but that’s why I love bringing them to life
She was absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤ Much better than the paintings, I love how you bring history to life !
i’ve always loved marie, as a kid i was obsessed with the how they choked/croaked books and marie’s story sparked a hyperfixation, honestly i never knew that people in the modern day thought of her as malicious because i’ve always seen her as in the wrong place at the wrong time, she’s not a hyperfixation anymore but i’ll always have time for a video like this or the marie antoinette movie
Wow. I am moved. This is the first time I'm seeing one your videos, and this has opened a whole new world for me. The recreation at the end almost brought me to tears. Amazing.
Eerily haunting and tragic, especially the last part. She almost feels so alive, and it makes hearing about her history even more tragic and personal
This is so fascinating. Besides the beautiful recreation, I really enjoyed the historical narration of their lives. Thanks so much!
Thank you for this, I have been a huge fan of her for such a long time, I’ve read many books about her nonfiction or otherwise and always wondered what she REALLY looked like. I have no problem believing that this rendition of her appearance is probably not too far off from how she really looked based on what I’ve read and seen
My heart is aching I learned about her having the extravagant life while others are starving. Didnt know how she was too young. I feel for their kids. Your recreations are amazing.
Thank you ❤️
What an awesome way to narrate the life of a person who died so long ago, how they managed to show her face from paintings to an actual representation...so amazed got goosebumps, makes u feel u r looking at an actual living person.
The recreations you made of her are so beautiful~ It's love at first sight~