A look inside Marie Antoinette's former cell at Conciergerie prison in Paris
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2013
- This webisode is associated with our full segment on Marie Antoinette from our episode Inside the Chateau de Versailles, Paris. Stream every episode of Museum Secrets at Vimeo On Demand: vimeo.com/ondemand/museumsecrets and VHX: museumsecrets.vhx.tv/
Who was the real Marie Antoinette? And how did she live her final days? Before the French Revolution, King Louis the Sixteenth and his wife Marie Antoinette enjoyed living at Versailles as if it were a setting for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. But by 1789, with the country in turmoil, Marie Antoinette had become a magnet for the hatred of the masses due to her life of excess. She was famous for reportedly saying, "Let them eat cake", when told that the people had no bread. Was Marie Antoinette really the dim-witted celebrity she was made out to be? Was she truly a victim of a revolution she didn't understand?
Museum Secrets uncovers some surprising truths as we explore her attempted escape through a secret passageway at Versailles, and her stay at the medieval Conciergerie prison in Paris. We also travel to the National Archives in Paris to uncover the secrets of Marie Antoinette's encrypted letter. Written in code, these rare letters reveal that perhaps there was good reason for her arrest, conviction and death by guillotine.
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Murdering Marie Antoinette and her kids was just sadistic, evil, malicious. They coulda just exiled her back to Austria, ffs.
That's not how revolution works,if she was exiled she would be back with her Austrian allies and crush the revolution to claim back the throne and as for the kids they could be threats in the future as their father was executed the kids were Direct heir to the throne....
Unfortunately she was the needed scapegoat of the Revolution. They couldn't let her walk.
OUR Channel And the Revolution was was all for nothing. France continued to have more monarchs afterwards and Marie Therese survived.
I wish they showed more of the museum the room and it's content
Yeah
Marie Antoinette had a pretty sorry aristocratic life. Her father died when she was young. Her mother went into a deep depression after that basically canceling all the fun in her life. A short time later, she lost her sister-in-law and two of her sisters to smallpox. After that, she lost her best friend and sister Caroline to marriage while she herself was being prepared to marry the grandson of the King of France who was just about two years older than her. Her mother wasn't kind or affectionate with her, and being that Marie Antionette was the youngest was often ignored in favor of her older sisters. She believed that her children were pawns to create allies around Europe even forcing one of her daughters to marry someone she didn't love even though she loved someone else. The only child to marry for love was Christina, and sadly she produced no living children. Marie Antoinette spent over a year preparing for the marriage changing her clothes from Austrian style to a more French style, improving her French, learning how to dance, having her teeth straightened, and most of all learning all the complicated rules of the French court. When she got there, she couldn't have been more disappointed. Her husband was shy and was pretty much a block of wood. He didn't make love to her for almost eight years, and even after that was pretty much closed off. The French court hated her because she was Austrian. Marie Antoinette did her best to make herself happy, and she didn't understand what the true cost of things were. The French court system was more in part to blame than she was. In fact, the real person to blame wasn't even alive at the time. King Louis XIV started the whole system of having the whole court being involved around him. King Louis the XV became King when he was just five years old.
Jena Minton Yeah, but she basically spent most money on herself by gambling and buying shoes and dresses and stuff (any normal teenage thing) and King Louis basically was taking her advice (which was poor advice) leading to the french revolution.
Finally someone who can comment with out calling her a bad ruler and a selfish pig!
Jena Minton Tell it to someone who gives a shit, she was a lazy bitch, which is typical of anyone with Royal status, much like my Royal lazy bastards today, Marie got what she deserved.
You are being very harsh on Maria Teresa. All royals at the time did alliance marriages. Even the middle classes married for interest. Only the poorest married for love.
Actually, Maria Teresa's family was quite loving and affectionate compared to other reigning families. The emperess loved her children dearly, and wrote frequently to all of them
cindybin2001 I guess you go to church.
I walked right passed it when I was in Paris two years ago. My family and I were on our to Notre Dame and we walked right passed it. Next time when I'm in Paris I will go there
Whitney Pyant me too lol
David Tracey how was it
Me too 😔😔😔
R.I.P Marie Antoinette
She wasn't a tyran, she was just too young and naive
tiglath pileser Robespierre was no better then Marie Antoinette.
tiglath pileser his rule was worse
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@tiglath pileser The king just don't know what to do.
She never said 'let them eat cake'..it was written by Rousseau when M/A was only nine years old...'At lenth I remembered the last resort of a 'great Princess' who when told the peasants had no bread,said let them eat brioches'.
Another idiot who has nothing else to say than" She never said that" who cares? That's not why she was put in trial and executed. But for treason. Stop watching stupid movies and get educated.
@@booliev3275......... Who's the idiot?...... Whenever one reads the words "get educated" one knows one is dealing with a dumb fuck.
Her last words was this, "PARDON ME SIR, I DID NOT MEAN TO DO THAT!" this is when she was walking on the steps towards the platform of the guillotine and she made a small accidental step on her servent's foot. That was her last words. Amen!
So...
@@booliev3275 wow you're so unsympathetic and disgusting, like stfu already and focus on something else rather than praising a revolution who din't bring shit and the dead of a queen who was only doing what every ARISTOCRAT WOULD DO IN THAT TIME !!!She wasn't the only one who lived in a fancy palace and had everything she wanted you know ? I bet you only hate her cuz that's what those revolutionary dogs had gossip about her.Like the biggest lie that you fucking believe ,the cake one,your uneducated cells could use some true information rather than some propaganda made by some uneducated and barbaric peasants.
actually it was her executioners foot.
she was a great woman slandered by jacobin scum
@@booliev3275 weirdo
Poor Marie to this day is subject of so much hate & smear campaign rumors.
+Nessa Not that "poor". Poor people who had to work their asses off all they long for people like her to spend all day long and to stay in history with their hair-styles and outfits, while the poor people were dying of hunger and maintaining this extravagant life-style standart of hers. She couldn`t care less about her country and how her people live and was only flashing out her outfits in their eye, uninterested in their life and what her extravagancies cause. She was just interested to stay in the world history as a smart-dresser, not as a good queen.
Marcela Galatti there's this crazy little thing called research. you should try it sometime before you open your fat, hateful, mouth you nasty quack.
~jaja full of shit clown! :)))
i feel worse for what they did to her 5 year old son
+HotsexyMom 45 come o please red more about her she's done lots of charities and helped poor women making weddings and her husband loved his people and wanted to help. Only they were both surrounded by greedy bastards that spread lots of false rumours about how horrible they are only to inflame citzens anger and inflame the revolution , FOR THEIR OWN NEEDS. but as u said karma is a bitch. The man who sent her to guillotine has been guillotined aswell.
They enlarged the cell and prettied it up. It didnt look anything like this!
Sorry for the late reply, but do you have proof?
salvador r I'm not sure about the enlargement as it was described as a 34x32 (ish) room, but a guard kept account of things at the time wrote that the floors were slippery and covered with wet mud since it was below the Seine and the walls leaked water which made for it to be barely noticeable that there was fleur demise wallpaper. The humidity was great which made the room gross and mucky. All she had in her room was a fold up cot, a table, a chest some powder, pomade, and a partition that the guards sat behind and the only new clothing she received was 2 bonnets which were put into savings after her execution.
@@UnorthodoxTexan probs there were rats too
when her cell looks prettier than my room
Tina .. You silly woman, were you not listening to what was said in the video ? Watch it again! Her jail cell was modeled into a chapel to the memory of Marie Antoinette by king Louis VIII .. it did not look like this at all when she was there so many hundreds of years ago. And as the tour guide lady mentions these jail cells were filthy and rat infested ..
Its a sham, a fake! An attempt to cover-up what those wretched monsters did!
My rooms basically a cell
It`s not her fault your room is a cell.
This is reconstructed it didn't look anything like this and would have been worse than most of today's prisons
The French court went under great strain helping fund the American Revolution.We owe a great deal of the founding of our democracy to the French❗️
Indigo Misfit did not know that. Thank you for the info.
Why didn't the American intervene and invade back then, just the way they do nowadays...
Alex Shuysky we were not a superpower, or have the resources.
Tyler Ryce Excuse after excuse after excuse, so many people have died and people have killed each other until you stepped into a conflict and claim as the liberator or the winning factor of a conflict. Millions of Europeans died in WW2 just because your people said the same thing they say to the French Court back in their independence day.
Alex Shuysky In WW2, we did have the resources. We stayed neutral untill Pearl Harbor. And the USA really was the winning factor in WW2, the Nazis were winning the war untill the USA stepped in. How do you expect an infant to drive a car? You dont, so how do you expect a 13 year old country that is in disarray and chaos win a war? If we could, the USA would have stepped in and helped. Most Americans supported the French more than the Brittish at the time anyway.
This report is SO misleading! Marie Antoinette's cell at the Conciergerie was like a dark, damp, donjon with only a bed, a chair and a small desk. It's still preserved like that today.
@Bill Mcdonald...... It's not misleading at all. They make it quite clear that her cell was turned into a Chapel. The cell you are talking about is a reproduction.
Devastating history- so many needless deaths- So called the Era of Terror-
You mean of all the peasants who died from disease and poverty? Yes, so many needless deaths.
Lisa Hilton is such an eloquent speaker, she should make a documentary or have her own show!
Marie Antoinette sad how she died :(,but I love her ❤️♥️❤️
She was innocent!!!
♥Hurricane - Fly04♥ no she wasn't, she spend the frechs money
Aure Ylonen is it her or the france king huh?
Her and the King didn't care to be a king, they were perfect for the revolution
She ate all the French fries.
What was she even accused of?
Such a sad story, history is very cruel.
great clip
I was there last fall! It was amazing!!!
1:28 I feel bad for her children looses their mother
The French Revolution was a flop, they started with a monarchy and have a limited monarchy now 🙄
The exchange it with a absolute emperor.
So much stupidity... That's internet! Even uneducated people can comment. Learn a bit about french history or any history. Maybe next time you won't say something that stupid.
@@richardque4952 get educated.
It used to look much different. They have changed it a few times. At some point you could look in an see her sitting there in her cell and they had the blade on the wall when you went up some stairs.
I feel so badly for her and her children. So very sad. Especially her little boy. He suffered so badly. I can understand anger at the queen, even if it was misguided. I don’t understand the treatment of her children. Poor sweethearts.
She was a WONDERFUL woman! She should never have been executed. I think it’s part of France's shameful history that she was - just as all our countries have some shameful incidents. She never did those things she was accused of. She never wanted the Necklace; she refused it twice. Her signature was forged. She never said 'Let them eat cake'. But what a great legacy she left the whole world! Bless her! May she rest in peace. It’s time France recognised her properly, and gave her a proper Service and burial. They should be proud of her.
Had to sop halfway through. Can't suffer this ludicrous camera angle where the presenter is pointedly ignoring the people they are talking to. I don't know who thought this up but I wish presenters would stop it.
EuphemiaGrubb OMG! Yes!!! I’ve been saying thre same thing and thought I was the only one. It’s everywhere now, I can’t stand it either.
THE PRESENTER HAS A LOVELY PAIR OF JUGS
Look at the damn camera
What did they expect having a 14-15 year old get married and start ruling at the age of 19 when she never did classes for royalty or ruling a whole country!
people are horrible . just remember that.
Sure, she was.
Looks pretty cosy.
Regarding the origins, I read somewhere, but this must be verified, that Queen Marie Antoinette had more French ancestry than King Louis XVI. His mother, Marie Josephe, was Archduchess of Austria and his father's mother, Queen of France Maria Leszczyńska, was Polish.
Madame Campan, the Queen's first maid in her memoirs on the private life of Marie Antoinette, states that Louis XVI had a good command of the English language.He liked to recite poems by John Milton. He regularly received newspapers from England. We do not know if he had a good pronunciation and a good accent.
The same Mrs. Campan reveals that she tried to interest Marie Antoinette to the German language by giving her lessons. It did not last. She did not care. It would seem, therefore, that although the Queen was from Austria, she did not speak German fluently. It is true that at the time they spoke French at the court of Austria
Pierre 50 Thanks dude. Your comments are interesting and I learned new stuff I hadn't heard before. :)
They were all marrying each others.
R.I.P Marie Antoinette. God Bless her. She was so beautiful. God Save The Queen, Long Live The Queen of France.
1:27 on October 16 Marie Antoinette would leave the congierei to meet her final fate at the place da la con corde
Bless Her Soul
It was tragic end for her yes but we cannot really blame the people for hating her since she really live an extravagant and extremely luxurious lifestyle while her people were starving to death.
yes but she was called the austrian bitch and she couldnt win no matter what she did
From witch documentary is this scene?
France was already broke before she came they needed somone to blame and Marie Antoinette was the perfect target because she was new to the country...
France was broke that true but she didn’t really help the situation
@@Whitneypyant yes that is true but at first she didnt know how much she was spending she only wanted to wear simple things but France taught her their ways..and they also funded the american war america would be diffrent if it weren't for France, France Helped the Americans.
She almost escaped to Austria
What the hell did she do?
Man being royal in the 1700s was harsh.
Marie did a lot to damage the people.
That's kinda why they killed her duh.
@@hawyeeyeehaw1793 no she didn't. She was slandered and made into a scapegoat.
Gestapo used Conciergerie prison for additional unspeakable purposes.
Was the marble added during the bourbon restoration?
Maria in requiem Christum ⚜
although i agree that it was very unfortunate thing for Marie Antoinette and the king got killed
it was necessory action for the french republic
king and queen was a symbol
it's a other polar part of having all the privilege by being a symbolic figure of "king" and "queen"
and it was aboslutely necessory to remove that symbol
Injustice.
It kinda was but it kinda wasn't.
She was a bad queen...
Imbecile.
@@booliev3275 yes, you are
@@therealmlw the biggest of them all
brave lady
where is she looking? the camera is at her left side!
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Pobrecita
“Let them eat cake.” - The last words of Marie before she lost her throne.
she never said that. the great princess did.
She never said that.
A monument to French lunacy.
And a comment by an great imbecile.
Tragedy!
"Better a hot steak than a cold chop" Curley
Pfsif lol
Lisa Hilton looks like Samantha Mathis
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She was innocenr her husband had no spine
frikkies333, her husband was a dumbass.
He was a good man who didnt want to shed his peoples blood. Even Napolean said he should have let the cannons loose on them!
"innocent"
Her husband lack of will remind me of gorbachev .both men realize a political reform is needed.unfortunately any talk of reform were torpedo by by the reactionary.
And you have no education. Innocent of what? Rejecting the constitutional monarchy? Betraying France? Where do you get your history facts from? Hollywood?
Horrendous
January 2019 ENY ONE
So where is her head at now? Anybody knows
Her remains are buried in the cathedral of St Denis near Paris. After the return of Bourbons in 1815, king Louis XVIII searched for the bodies of his brother and his sister-in-law.
The remains of the younger sister of Louis XVI, Madame Elisabeth, were not found. There is a small statue representing her in this church.
Marie-Thérèse Charlotte (1778 - 1851), daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI was buried next to her uncle, Charles X, and her husband, Louis XIX, in the crypt of the Franciscan Monastery church of Castagnavizza in Görz, then in Austria, now Kostanjevica in the Slovenian city of Nova Gorica.
WTF WHY DID they redecorate it! This is not how its illustrated.
To try and cover their brutality!
Yes this room is used as the room of Requirements for Harry Potter movies. Cool room. Now she had plenty of wheat for cake. She offered people cake flour not knowing the criminals who stole all the wheat in France for their soft Wars against the people. This war was all over Europe at that time. As well as murder rings killing all Royals from every country. The Royals who faked their deaths over half did that, and the Royals who got away alive spent over 22 years hunting down the criminals with soft wars against the people. Only about 75 people lived but over 2000 people were murdered criminals in wheat wars. The wars were over when more plagues happened in Europe. Lessons to learn.....never let intermediaries run your country against you and the people. They only run your counties for themselves.
Grace Serena Christie You should learn to spell first.
She was at the wrong place at the wrong time
If you could go back in time to have a conversation with one person/ historical figure besides Jesus who would you pick. I would choose Leonardo DaVinci or maybe a Sumerian.
That was to cruel and sadistic for her execution.
How the mighty has fallen... Would be quite an event, executing a Habsburg on those days...
Her piece of shit brother could have saved her and the children!
I Concuer Cloudy
An ancient medieval?
wow, talk about a crash course lol
I'm a distant relative to Marie Antoinette
Lucky....
Oh really? That's cool, have you known your entire life?
From which brother or sister? Since all her children died in the revolution or childless.
LIAR : they're all forced to ingest radius - mercury . Very easy to buy in any shop at that time. One small drop of that in a sandwich ; and body and face presents sintomas of small - pox = misleas . And die in less than one year.
... /... , all her children died in less than 2 years for radio - mercury ingestion and poisoning . And fatal bullying from the French revolutionaries and prison inmates : Prebostes = criminal prisoners who were in charge of others criminals , outside prison. Today we say parole officers , or pshys , or probation oficial .
Lisa Hilton.
The room WAS REFURNISHED THIS IS NOT THE ORIGINAL LOOKING.
You are right. If people want to see how her cell looked like, they must go to the Musée Carnavalet, where a restitution exists.
C est trop triste 😢😢 l love marie antoinette elle meritait pas la mort !!
In many countries, even nowadays, death is the punishment for treason.
@@booliev3275 where? In your uneducated mind? Only in the ones who still think they are in the dark ages do that.Which aren't many ,those brain cells of yours are so brainwashed is a shame.
I'm lucky most of my family long fled france. They were blue blooded religious reformers. Really though, I dont see how it could be a good thing at the time for the monarchy to pinch their purse so to speak. It seems like a fine line.. on one h and more goes to the treasury but on the other if your enemies see that you are being particularly frugal it would alert them to the monarchy's weakness. A good time to invade? Again, it's just too complex. Personally I think the root of the problem was not having a system to at LEAST feed the commons in a time of dire need.
So wrong what they did to Her
This is how revolutions work. You can't get rid of a despotic regime with smiles and flowers.
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Bet this place is HAUNTED !!!!
Star buono , No, the place has spirit!
Bah! All on adrenochrome, including the reporter bloodline to Marie Antoniette herself.
Booo hooo. I'll live here.
Just to clear it up, Marie and the past french king were not innocent but you can not only blame them because they were very young and only knew so much,they spent millions of the french people's money for luxury and so the french people became much more poor thats why Marie Antoinette is also famous for saying "let them eat cake!" Well,she was drunk when she said that.
Edit: Oh I forgot to mention not only Marie Antoinette was executed but also the king but the king was executed first but when he was executed he had more privilege like he rode a carriage to his execution while Marie Antoinette didn't have as much privelege and did not get to do the same things as the king.
First of all Marie Antoinette did spend a lot of money but she was humble and she was *innocent* because the French people we're looking for somone to blame of course Marie Antoinette was the perfect target since she was an Austrian..
And she did not say *let them eat cake* that is a dubunked myth
And France was already broke before she came! They funded U.S wars and etc. She did not waste all of Franc's money!
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