I've always felt that Marie Antoinette's death was rather unfair. Partially because she was a generous patronous of the poor, partially because as the Queen Consort, she had no legal right to change the law. Having little education regarding agriculture, animal husbandry, politics, and problem solving for a nation, she had no idea how bad the issues were or how to remedy them. She wad 14 when she was sent to another nation to marry a stranger and provide him with heirs. Its criminal that after her death, men desecrated and abused her children, then had the gall to accuse her of saying " Well let them eat cake tben" when told the peasants were angry because they had not enough money for bread and they were hungry. She never said this.
I even read, at one time acknowlgedging France finacial was not in good condition, she considered to lessen Royal family expenditure by changing her clothes from expensive silk to cheaper ones like satin, but the Court against it because her decision apparently threaten France Silk Industry.
@@Gypsywandering400Elizabeth Bathory is another scrape goat I strongly believe after studying some more of her history that a lot folks don't know about and or don't bother learning about...
@@mercedesvelasquez8781 I am fascinated by her and yes, there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest she was the victime of male family members wanting her lands and wealth. Her husband for one, if I remembe correctly?
Marie was used as a scapegoat. "I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."
Did Marie Antoinette spend exorbitant amounts of money? Yes. But it was a small amount compared to the amount that France spent supporting the American revolution. That is what bankrupted France. It was the unfortunate queen who paid the price.
The French fought the British in the Seven Years War in the 1750s. Even though they won, they racked up huge debt. Louis XV also spent tons on building Versailles and subsidizing the Continental Army during the American Revolution added to the huge debt.
Absolutely!. The question then is; was France better off financially in the upcoming years or did they realize that the revolution was after all unnecessary and the monarchy was foolishly blamed. I think that a group of men managed to terrorize and gaslight the poor population. Thanks to the monarchy we all are able to enjoy the beauty of Paris...
@@OscarRodriguez-kx1zq Louis XVI realized the French economy was in crisis and called a meeting of the Estates General and tried to convince the aristocracy and clergy start paying taxes but they refused so ALL the taxes continued to be paid by the poor and working class.
I think it’s important to mention the accusations of child abuse and pedophilia were obtained by her jailers and their own physical, sexual and emotional abuse of Marie Antoinette’s own children. After she was executed the male child was left to rot in a cell where he was raped by his jailers and eventually became so physically abused that he became non verbal. He was neglected until he eventually died of disease and abuse.
I didn't know this. What a horrific fate for the whole royal family. Unfortunately, revolutions anywhere unleash monsters who, for a while, will get away with anything.
I think we sometimes forget how stoic and brave these executed women were. They had strength of mind and character that I can only hope to aspire to. Queen Marie Antoinette had to ride through the streets of jeering, spitting, nasty crowds, climb the steps of the scaffold without falling or seeming to tremble or to shake. She remembered her manners moments from death. She must have been consumed with fear and worry about her children. She was totally alone at that moment in a seething crowd of haters. How lost she must have felt. She was then manhandled onto the frame and …thud! I think of other unjustly royal executed women, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Mary Queen of Scots, the Russian Tsarina & princesses - all so brave. Would I have been so calm & collected? Nope. Don’t think so. I think faith played a part, but their sense of duty did too. 😊
@@phillawrence5148 You make a good point. She was plotting against Ellizabeth for years and there was undeniable evidence of this. Had Mary succeeded, Elizabeth would have lost her life as well as her crown.
that diamond necklace had nothing to do with Marie Antoinette. it is a convoluted story but basically, That necklace was ordered for the ex- streetwalker mistress of the previous king of France and he died before the diamond necklace was finished and paid for. So the jewelers were stuck with this HUGE necklace and no client that could possibly afford to buy it. A jewel thief convinced the jewelers that Marie Antoinette wanted the necklace and the jeweler gave them the necklace believing they would deliver it to the queen. The thief ran to England with the necklace and sold the diamonds. Marie Antoinette had nothing to do with that necklace.
If the diamonds from the necklace were sold how is it that it survives today I believe somewhere in a museum? Much less how is it that we also have photographs of the necklace too if he basically dismantled it?
@@manuellubian5709 the necklace in the museum is a reproduction using fake diamonds.. Do use your brain. The jewelers would have had drawings of the design.
This video has history incorrectly. Marie Antoinette was known as a generous patron of charity and moved by the plight of the poor, was a devoted mother and grief stricken at the loss of baby Sophia and then later her son Joseph. When the court cut back on "expenses" there was a near revolt it is reported by the many dozens of trades people depending on Versailles to earn a living. “Let them eat cake,” or Qu’ils mangent de la brioche" (Also, "S’il n’y a pas de pain on mangera de la brioche") attributed to first be found in Jean-Jacqque Rousseau’s Confessions, Book Six, 1765. Also attributed to Marie-Thérése, wife of Louis XIV, again who would have only been 14 years old when Rousseau’s Confessions were written. Brioche is very soft, buttery bread, made of flour, milk or water, eggs, salt, some sugar, yeast and lots of butter. It is usually eaten for breakfast or with afternoon tea. A baguette is only flour, water, salt, and yeast. The Book of Jin, a 7th-century chronicle of the Chinese Jin Dynasty, reports that when Emperor Hui (259-307) of Western Jin was told that his people were starving because there was no rice, he said, "Why don't they eat porridge with (ground) meat?", showing his unfitness. The Journey: Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser is a modern and thoroughly researched biography that is compelling reading, sometimes facts are far more interesting than fiction.
Yeah it's just a video about what happened to her head. She has different videos coving in more detail more about her life, but this isn't what this little 8.10 minute video is about.
Thanks so much for the account of accurate bit of history , I did read once that the queen was indeed a very generous woman , Most certainly didn’t deserve this to happen to her , behind the scenes that or the corrupt military or gentlemen of France 🇫🇷 would have been more deserving of madam guillotine !.
This video didn't seem to be covering the actual truth of whether or not she might have deserved her fate, only a little background as to what she was accused of and a very little of her reputation as was rumoured as well as the events of her execution and burial.
Lady Antonia Fraser is an excellent historian. i am grateful to encounter someone who does not glean all of their historical data from the internet. (one must read before one may surf, and read enough to be able to tell a well written historical publication from a lousy one)
I wonder how you feel about the massive poverty and death among the people of France while the upper class scum enjoyed a glorious time I have no pity for Thoes sent to the blade.
@@apriscillafan only her daughter survived she was the one who wrote what happened and how she could hear her brother screams tortured only her oldest daughter survived
Marie never rub the French poverty in their faces. It was all propaganda. You must do a deeper research in the French history. You probably believe that Marie said the poor should eat cake. She was victim of French politics!
Ps: madame tussauds didnt sneak to get the head. She was sentenced to death penalty because she had connection to the royal family. So they gave her options either to live as a prisoner and create death masks of important people or to be executed. She chose to create death masks and she had to endure the pain of handling the heads of her late friends. Then when the government was crumbling she managed to sneak out of france and lived in england and if i remember well she didnt return back to france like everyone else who were sentenced to death (nobles etc) and escaped france settling forever out of france
There's so many lies about her out there, it's not even funny. She never once said "let them eat cake", for one. She didn't even WANT to be queen of France
I’ve researched this and I know that times are different and I as confused as to what she did. I also know they are talking about a different country but I don’t understand what she really did
@@BobSacamano666 I’ve just researched it, looks like they pandered to their Muslim overlords by disrespecting the last supper scene and then showed the headless corpse of the last queen of France, very strange indeed but the French always have been a bit odd.
I was a kid when I first saw a film about the French revolution I was shocked by the guillotine and that they beheaded the queen I still consider that violent period of French history despicable at least she died quickly and relatively painlessly said sorry to her executioner for stepping on his foot, true aristocrat and noble till the end
Tussaud biographer Kate Berridge stated that from 1793 until Marie's death in 1850, there's no record of Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette's heads being part of her exhibit. No mention of either head in the Tussaud wax exhibition catalogs, newspaper articles about the exhibition etc. Both heads first appeared in an 1865 Tussaud exhibit, when her two sons were running the business. It's possible that Marie left the molds behind in France (never to return) when she went to the UK, and somehow her sons obtained them years later. Possible but unlikely - Marie's husband remained in France with the business but was irresponsible and a poor businessman. He lost the waxworks business in Paris to creditors many years before Marie's death.
Correct. Tussaud never claimed to make death masks of Marie Antoinette or Louis XVI, only some revolutionaries--but even then, Tussaud's story changes on the details, and I find it highly unlikely that she made death masks of anyone during the revolution. Tussaud claimed that her wax figures of the French royal family were done "from life," whereas some of the revolutionary heads were explicitly labeled as being done from their guillotined heads. I find it probable that her sons used the molds from the "from life" figures that Tussaud made, or at least claimed she made from life, then used them for the Chamber of Horrors when they added Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to it.
Marie Antoinette's head, not her face, mentioned in the title, which some may consider as click-bait. Still, this video did mention the head and how it was thought to be have been tossed into the grave.
Very interesting. My mother's side of our family are descended from Marie Antoinette's family line and curiously enough my father's line is from the Bourbon Kings which the King was descended from. I have a 1st cousin that bears a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette. Its very sad how she was treated at the time. As a Princess I have never understood why her safety wasnt demanded by her family and let her and her children travel back to Austria. Very sad.
From her FAMILY LINE, not her according to DNA. Don't know where in the family line but it could have been aunts, uncles, cousins....who knows. Just definitely from that dna group.
I did not mean to infer that I was a princess. LOL. I just realized how that read....what I meant was She being a princess from Austria that her own family did not demand her safe return. LOL
There’s a movie called “The Affair of the Necklace,” with Hillary Swank, about the woman who conned the Cardinal into buying the diamond necklace by pretending she was Marie Antoinette . It’s really good!
4:20 Marie Antoinette infamously had her hands bound behind her back during her final journey, just like many of those sentenced to die in the guillotine, and to get up to the scaffold she had to walk up a fairly steep wooden staircase in full view of the crowd, lookjng straight at the towering instrument of her death. She is said to have ascended the steps quickly, her hands still trussed behind, and most likely that is how she happened to trip or stumble, getting one foot in the wrong place.
I wear dresses, and you can't walk up steps without holding the front of your skirt up. If her hands were bound, she would've walked on her own skirt and tripped on it.
There was famine in France at the time but the Royal Family and the aristocracy lived in splendor seemengly oblivious of the penuries of the people. The American Revolution was the example to follow. Down with the oppressors!
Madame Marie Tussaud's first job was Marie's deathmask, aged 17. What a freaky job, especially for a kid that age! 😮 no, she didn't sneak in to do it - it was a normal thing to do pre-photography.
People were STARVING to death. Imagine seeing the parties this woman would throw. Back then the people did not have much education. Obviously they wouldn't know what was really happening. She was a naive queen, her husband was immature just as she was, sad all around. But no one is at fault here.
@@JunLala I mean ok, but you don’t kill people over that. I might be starving to death, but does Bill Gates deserve to die because he threw an extravagant party?
SO ANOTHER SHEEP DEFENDING THE ELITES WHILE THEY STARVED THEIR PEOPLE TO DEATH AND LIVED LAVISHED LIFESTYLES, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE SHEEPLE????🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@spudspuddyyou’re a monster if you think it’s necessary to become this violent to the point of executing the innocent. That’s exactly what happened in the French Revolution to the point that even ardent followers of the cause were executed because they weren’t sufficiently extreme. You don’t understand what you’re demanding for or you do and indeed you’re a bad person.
There is no Evidence that Marie Antoinette ever Said " Let Them Eat Cake " The Saying has Though been Sometimes Attributed to Marie Theresa of Spain 1638 to 1683. Theresa was the Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 Her Husband was King Louis XIV.
Louis XIV and Louis XV were responsible for over spending on wars , building Versailles etc etc... and the sad financial state of France. Louis XVI was the unlucky King to inherit their financial mess .
Yes. She actually refused to buy it and found it very odd when someone said it was going to be a gift for her through a letter. Because she had *refused to buy it*
@@pommiebears I've been paying attention to this channel for a while now. It routinely ignores eyewitness descriptions of historical figures. On one occasion this would be understandable, but several times become an agenda. We know the meaning of words like swarthy, tawny etc. We know what they mean now, and what they meant in their heyday. This channel, in the cases of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, omits such trivial detail. It also ignored evidence to suggest Ptolemy X, Alexander I was of negroid appearance evident in two defaced busts. Egerton MS 1500 depicts the entire Ptolemy line as blacks, including Cleopatra VII. How did this channel portray her? That's right. Everything here panders to the tastes of a particular audience. Therefore, logic dictates the above portrayal is false, and like you, I seek evidence to prove so. Jean-Antoine Houdon created a bust in 1781. It's said to be the real likeness of Marie Antoinette, even in a cruel twist of fate, having its head broken off from the rest of the statue. Now of, course, unless some authoritative source confirms this, and by that I mean the cognoscenti, we're stuck with agenda driven iconoclasts looking for hits.
That is not what I said. I was merely making the point that she was not to blame for the state of France's economy. France spent 1.3 BILLION LIvres (some say more) to help the Revolution. Then the new government did not pay it back. Someone said that they paid it back in WW1 and WW2. That was a little late don't you think? I quote James M. Volo, MA in Military History and Wars , American Military University (AMU) (Graduated 1997)4y " France's debt, aggravated by French involvement in the American Revolution, led Louis XVI to implement new taxation and to reduce privileges. In all the French spent 1.3 billion livres to support the Americans directly in addition to the money it spent fighting Britain on land and sea outside the U.S. In many ways the American Revolution became of multi-ocean war. In India, British troops gained control of several French outposts in 1778 and 1779. In the Peace of Paris (1783), Cuddalore was returned to Great Britain in exchange for Pondicherry and Mahé, two French territories that British forces had captured earlier in the war. During the next 50 years, Pondicherry changed hands between France and Britain with the regularity of their wars and peace treaties. The Indian territories under French administration were minuscule, especially in comparison to the British India. As a cost of participation in the American war, France accumulated over 1.0 billion livres of unrelieved debt. France gained little except that it weakened its main strategic enemy and gained a new, fast-growing ally that could become a welcome trading partner. France's help is considered a major, vital, and decisive contribution to the United States' victory against the British. However, the trade with America never materialized. Federalist New England, where most foreign trade originated, remained pro-British."
They usually voted about this, at least when it was about important people, thousands were executed during the revolution and I'm not sure if everyone's case was handled like the King. They usually voted whether they are really guilty during trial and then they voted for punishment. I don't know how it vent in her case but King died because of a single vote cast by Louis Michele Le Peletier.
@@RaRmAn Thanks for the info. I believe in the Death Penalty for murderers, but not for harmless people like those mass murdered for political reasons.
@@TRHARTAmericanArtist A lot of those in charge of the revolution got their turn on the same guilotine they used to kill so many before them, some got killed even sooner. It's why people say that French revolution ate it's own children. They blamed everything on monarchy, but once they got rid of it, they found out that they have no idea how to fix things. Instead of finding a solution they blamed anyone who was in charge at the moment. Which lead to one coup after another until Napoleon took over. Even Le Peletier got his turn. I wonder if he would make the same choice, if he knew that he was sentencing himself as well. He was stabbed to death in a coffee shop because of his vote, on the very same day he decided king's fate.
Crazy how they treated her. She was a spending maniac but to have her head chopped off snd then continue to make fun of it while French spends money billions of illegals it's insane
I really doubt the story that Madame Tussaud took plaster cast of her head while the gravediggers were lunching. Sounds ridiculous on it's face (pun). More likely, Tussaud used some other woman's head and claimed it was Marie's - simply to create a macabre showpiece for her to make money.
the lesson is that while monarchy sucks, dont use the fact its bad to justify murdering and torturing an entire family and anyone who sympathises with them
Madame Tussauds ' last name is phonetically pronounced "Tooo-sow", the "s" is silent in many french words and names . All over RUclips there are poor descriptions, and bad pronunciations of words commonly know to the educated and the well informed. That no one edits and corrects these things is sad, and lazy
At the time it was called "Place de la Révolution" - but up until the year before (1792) it had been called, with the darkest irony, "Place Louis XV" (the father and predecessor of her husband the King - Louis XVI had also been decapitated there!). The name "Concorde" (unity, reconciliation) came only in 1795, after the Terror had ended and the revolution entered a more peaceful stage.
The French revolution is the best thing ever for the liberty and freedom of the people of the world, the fight for the rights of mankind took a decisive turn for the best during the French revolution, well done to the people of France. Long live democracy and humanity and freedom.
@@andrewcooney2387 The worst thing ever to happen to France in her history was the nonsense you espouse. It is absolute stupidity designed to allow what were peasants so-called "freedom." Doing away with sanctioned law, replacing it with "people rule" is what destroyed the world. The only being with right is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Until or unless you learn and accept this, your vaunted republic is going down.
@@andrewcooney2387 yeah the same thing is claimed by the bolshevik revolutionaries too but ends don't justify the means... the revolutionaries were equally barbaric if not more compared to the royalties.
the french revolution was not a revolution in freedom or liberty the french revolution allowed a sadist manipulator to run the country and execute people for using the wrong words to address someone, or censor any sympathising with the BRUTAL treatment of the ex royal family
She was held in the Conciergerie. Not the concierge. and she was executed at the Place de la Revolution, not the Palace de La Revolution. And buried at the Basilica Saint Denis. not the Basilia Saint Dennis.
She was buried in a communal grave (fosse commune de la Madeleine) after her execution. Her remains were transported to Saint Denis in 1815, 22 years after her burial.
The amount of money Marie spent compared to the amount spent in support of the American revolution is like comparing the budget of nasa compared with the budget of the rest of the American budget
@vanessaofakem1642cleopatra was Greek, madam. I’m not sure how educated you are, but most Greeks did have white skin tones. While yes, it is debatable that Cleo’s skin tone naturally darkened due to the exposure to the sun and other climates in Egypt, she still wasn’t black. No matter how much you try to rewrite history, you’re only going to look more and more foolish to the real educated individuals who take one look at your elaborate bullshit, and laugh uncontrollably.
because A) there were no photograph devices at the time B) it may never be found depending what they did with it, cant remember C) ask yourself the same question with someone more recent, like the Queen of England; that speaks for itself
An Archduchess is a princess...just of a higher rank than your average princess because her mother was an Empress, which is a higher rank than a Queen.
These days she's come to be seen as a bit of a scapegoat for the incompetence of her husband. Many of the claims made of her were really done by others (e.g., "let them eat cake" was not said by her), or things she did were not as bad as is aimed today (e.g., the amount she spent on her garden, often claimed today to have been outrageous, was in fact the same amount typically dropped in one nights gambling losses by French aristocrats. And the poor children she adopted were he last action when awaiting death: she made sure tonarrqnge for them, find people who would take them to safety, arrange for their education, and etc.).
And yet today during the French opening scene in the Olympics - she was still used as artistic slander... what disrespect for the dead, and the history of France.
Please please please... before recording these voiceovers - words you're unfamiliar with - find how to pronounce them? Without stutterings and hesitations, the result would gain you extra cred. The French in the statement you made should not be "Viva" it should have been "Vive... " pronounced "Veeve".
What?! How did I never know Madame Tussaud plastered the head of Marie Antoinette??? That’s a massive oversight on my part having read up on all she’s done lol. 😅
She wasn't the only one leading a very indulgent lifestyle. She was as much of a scapegoat of the poor as she was unsympathetic. She didn't live at Versailles all by her lonesome. She wasn't the only one with lavish costumes and wigs, expensive 24 course meals, etc. She never said let them eat cake. Does anyone think the King and his courtiers weren't participating in balls, parties, lavish meals? The courtiers believed they were serving an all powerful King put on the throne by divine right. That's the way royalty worked. What really bankrupted the crown treasuries was the money they spent giving aid to, wait for it, a country in the throes of revolution, the New America. Why? Because the King and his advisors felt that it would weaken their arch enemy, England.
I'd say there's a whole bunch of big-time politicians, along with the wealthy people who own them, who would do well to reflect on what happens when The People have finally had enough.
I've always felt that Marie Antoinette's death was rather unfair. Partially because she was a generous patronous of the poor, partially because as the Queen Consort, she had no legal right to change the law. Having little education regarding agriculture, animal husbandry, politics, and problem solving for a nation, she had no idea how bad the issues were or how to remedy them. She wad 14 when she was sent to another nation to marry a stranger and provide him with heirs. Its criminal that after her death, men desecrated and abused her children, then had the gall to accuse her of saying " Well let them eat cake tben" when told the peasants were angry because they had not enough money for bread and they were hungry. She never said this.
She would not be the first nor last woman to be used as a scapegoat
I even read, at one time acknowlgedging France finacial was not in good condition, she considered to lessen Royal family expenditure by changing her clothes from expensive silk to cheaper ones like satin, but the Court against it because her decision apparently threaten France Silk Industry.
@@Gypsywandering400Elizabeth Bathory is another scrape goat I strongly believe after studying some more of her history that a lot folks don't know about and or don't bother learning about...
Absolutely true!
@@mercedesvelasquez8781 I am fascinated by her and yes, there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest she was the victime of male family members wanting her lands and wealth. Her husband for one, if I remembe correctly?
Marie was used as a scapegoat.
"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."
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Yes. Her daughter actually survived and her bio is fascinating.
What is her nane, p,ease@@angelwings7930
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Did Marie Antoinette spend exorbitant amounts of money? Yes. But it was a small amount compared to the amount that France spent supporting the American revolution. That is what bankrupted France. It was the unfortunate queen who paid the price.
Correct.
The French fought the British in the Seven Years War in the 1750s. Even though they won, they racked up huge debt. Louis XV also spent tons on building Versailles and subsidizing the Continental Army during the American Revolution added to the huge debt.
Absolutely!. The question then is; was France better off financially in the upcoming years or did they realize that the revolution was after all unnecessary and the monarchy was foolishly blamed. I think that a group of men managed to terrorize and gaslight the poor population. Thanks to the monarchy we all are able to enjoy the beauty of Paris...
@@OscarRodriguez-kx1zq Louis XVI realized the French economy was in crisis and called a meeting of the Estates General and tried to convince the aristocracy and clergy start paying taxes but they refused so ALL the taxes continued to be paid by the poor and working class.
Well if it's true she built that "peasant" village, that was pretty condescending and mean.
I think Marie Antoinette is one of the most slandered women of her time. It's painful that people continue to repeat the lies about her.
I agree
@@aureliengdt5932 it's also a cautionary tale of the power of misinformation.
Exactly.
...including false depictions of her appearance.
@@miltonkiller707 and lurid rubbish printed in England and distributed in France. Have people changed?
I think it’s important to mention the accusations of child abuse and pedophilia were obtained by her jailers and their own physical, sexual and emotional abuse of Marie Antoinette’s own children. After she was executed the male child was left to rot in a cell where he was raped by his jailers and eventually became so physically abused that he became non verbal. He was neglected until he eventually died of disease and abuse.
What a terrible way to treat a innocent children
Who became king or queen after her??
That’s beyond tragic!! no one there for him. So sad.
I didn't know this. What a horrific fate for the whole royal family. Unfortunately, revolutions anywhere unleash monsters who, for a while, will get away with anything.
@@Adam-jl6yo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France
I think we sometimes forget how stoic and brave these executed women were. They had strength of mind and character that I can only hope to aspire to. Queen Marie Antoinette had to ride through the streets of jeering, spitting, nasty crowds, climb the steps of the scaffold without falling or seeming to tremble or to shake. She remembered her manners moments from death. She must have been consumed with fear and worry about her children. She was totally alone at that moment in a seething crowd of haters. How lost she must have felt. She was then manhandled onto the frame and …thud! I think of other unjustly royal executed women, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Mary Queen of Scots, the Russian Tsarina & princesses - all so brave. Would I have been so calm & collected? Nope. Don’t think so. I think faith played a part, but their sense of duty did too. 😊
What a sensitive, thoughtful, and eloquent comment about the tragic, fascinating women you mention above. Thank you!
@@EP-yd7vz If I might be allowed, I second that.
@@jamesmiller4184 😃
Very well written and well said. Mary Queen of Scots had it coming though did she not?
@@phillawrence5148 You make a good point. She was plotting against Ellizabeth for years and there was undeniable evidence of this. Had Mary succeeded, Elizabeth would have lost her life as well as her crown.
that diamond necklace had nothing to do with Marie Antoinette. it is a convoluted story but basically, That necklace was ordered for the ex- streetwalker mistress of the previous king of France and he died before the diamond necklace was finished and paid for. So the jewelers were stuck with this HUGE necklace and no client that could possibly afford to buy it. A jewel thief convinced the jewelers that Marie Antoinette wanted the necklace and the jeweler gave them the necklace believing they would deliver it to the queen. The thief ran to England with the necklace and sold the diamonds. Marie Antoinette had nothing to do with that necklace.
If the diamonds from the necklace were sold how is it that it survives today I believe somewhere in a museum? Much less how is it that we also have photographs of the necklace too if he basically dismantled it?
@@manuellubian5709 the necklace in the museum is a reproduction using fake diamonds.. Do use your brain. The jewelers would have had drawings of the design.
This video has history incorrectly. Marie Antoinette was known as a generous patron of charity and moved by the plight of the poor, was a devoted mother and grief stricken at the loss of baby Sophia and then later her son Joseph. When the court cut back on "expenses" there was a near revolt it is reported by the many dozens of trades people depending on Versailles to earn a living.
“Let them eat cake,” or Qu’ils mangent de la brioche" (Also, "S’il n’y a pas de pain on mangera de la brioche") attributed to first be found in Jean-Jacqque Rousseau’s Confessions, Book Six, 1765. Also attributed to Marie-Thérése, wife of Louis XIV, again who would have only been 14 years old when Rousseau’s Confessions were written. Brioche is very soft, buttery bread, made of flour, milk or water, eggs, salt, some sugar, yeast and lots of butter. It is usually eaten for breakfast or with afternoon tea. A baguette is only flour, water, salt, and yeast.
The Book of Jin, a 7th-century chronicle of the Chinese Jin Dynasty, reports that when Emperor Hui (259-307) of Western Jin was told that his people were starving because there was no rice, he said, "Why don't they eat porridge with (ground) meat?", showing his unfitness.
The Journey: Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser is a modern and thoroughly researched biography that is compelling reading, sometimes facts are far more interesting than fiction.
Yeah it's just a video about what happened to her head. She has different videos coving in more detail more about her life, but this isn't what this little 8.10 minute video is about.
Thanks so much for the account of accurate bit of history , I did read once that the queen was indeed a very generous woman ,
Most certainly didn’t deserve this to happen to her , behind the scenes that or the corrupt military or gentlemen of France 🇫🇷 would have been more deserving of madam guillotine !.
This video didn't seem to be covering the actual truth of whether or not she might have deserved her fate, only a little background as to what she was accused of and a very little of her reputation as was rumoured as well as the events of her execution and burial.
Lady Antonia Fraser is an excellent historian. i am grateful to encounter someone who does not glean all of their historical data from the internet. (one must read before one may surf, and read enough to be able to tell a well written historical publication from a lousy one)
She looked nothing like the head shown in the thumbnail.
Poor marie and children they didn't deserve being murdered her daughter lived and told what happened to them all
I wonder how you feel about the massive poverty and death among the people of France while the upper class scum enjoyed a glorious time I have no pity for Thoes sent to the blade.
Her children survived they were erased of who they were though
@@apriscillafan only her daughter survived she was the one who wrote what happened and how she could hear her brother screams tortured only her oldest daughter survived
@@okpeace4687 exactly that’s why I didn’t mention her
Ya I guess neither did the King really.
God knows he was forced into the position too.
Marie never rub the French poverty in their faces. It was all propaganda. You must do a deeper research in the French history. You probably believe that Marie said the poor should eat cake. She was victim of French politics!
What do you expect coming from a British accent narrator.
Accuracy considering the French don't even keep an accurate record of their own history.@@IkeamarcosGarnado-gd7xi
Ps: madame tussauds didnt sneak to get the head. She was sentenced to death penalty because she had connection to the royal family. So they gave her options either to live as a prisoner and create death masks of important people or to be executed. She chose to create death masks and she had to endure the pain of handling the heads of her late friends. Then when the government was crumbling she managed to sneak out of france and lived in england and if i remember well she didnt return back to france like everyone else who were sentenced to death (nobles etc) and escaped france settling forever out of france
There's so many lies about her out there, it's not even funny. She never once said "let them eat cake", for one. She didn't even WANT to be queen of France
Nobody cares, she couldn't even keep her head.
I’ve researched this and I know that times are different and I as confused as to what she did. I also know they are talking about a different country but I don’t understand what she really did
She did say that. Confirmed by Freddy Mercury.
I think it was shameful what they did to Marie and Louis. Even now the French still abuse her like at the Olympics.
The atrocious Paris Olympics opening ceremony showed shocking disrespect toward Marie Antoinette.
Indeed! The ceremony was a disgrace
France is not a country anymore.
Why? What happened?
@@julianmorris9951I don't know but Christians are super butt hurt over it.
@@BobSacamano666 I’ve just researched it, looks like they pandered to their Muslim overlords by disrespecting the last supper scene and then showed the headless corpse of the last queen of France, very strange indeed but the French always have been a bit odd.
I was a kid when I first saw a film about the French revolution
I was shocked by the guillotine and that they beheaded the queen
I still consider that violent period of French history despicable
at least she died quickly and relatively painlessly
said sorry to her executioner for stepping on his foot, true aristocrat and noble till the end
Tussaud biographer Kate Berridge stated that from 1793 until Marie's death in 1850, there's no record of Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette's heads being part of her exhibit. No mention of either head in the Tussaud wax exhibition catalogs, newspaper articles about the exhibition etc. Both heads first appeared in an 1865 Tussaud exhibit, when her two sons were running the business. It's possible that Marie left the molds behind in France (never to return) when she went to the UK, and somehow her sons obtained them years later. Possible but unlikely - Marie's husband remained in France with the business but was irresponsible and a poor businessman. He lost the waxworks business in Paris to creditors many years before Marie's death.
Correct. Tussaud never claimed to make death masks of Marie Antoinette or Louis XVI, only some revolutionaries--but even then, Tussaud's story changes on the details, and I find it highly unlikely that she made death masks of anyone during the revolution. Tussaud claimed that her wax figures of the French royal family were done "from life," whereas some of the revolutionary heads were explicitly labeled as being done from their guillotined heads. I find it probable that her sons used the molds from the "from life" figures that Tussaud made, or at least claimed she made from life, then used them for the Chamber of Horrors when they added Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to it.
Don't worry too much. Any molds or masks or head depicted will be false anyway. How they looked is a closely guarded secret.
And the face? Hate clickbaits, I liked your channel
Marie Antoinette's head, not her face, mentioned in the title, which some may consider as click-bait. Still, this video did mention the head and how it was thought to be have been tossed into the grave.
Very interesting. My mother's side of our family are descended from Marie Antoinette's family line and curiously enough my father's line is from the Bourbon Kings which the King was descended from. I have a 1st cousin that bears a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette. Its very sad how she was treated at the time. As a Princess I have never understood why her safety wasnt demanded by her family and let her and her children travel back to Austria. Very sad.
Marie Antoinette had not living descents.
From her FAMILY LINE, not her according to DNA. Don't know where in the family line but it could have been aunts, uncles, cousins....who knows. Just definitely from that dna group.
@@merryEngland She did. Marie Therese. She went to Austria.
Your Highness ! That's a good question !
I did not mean to infer that I was a princess. LOL. I just realized how that read....what I meant was She being a princess from Austria that her own family did not demand her safe return. LOL
There’s a movie called “The Affair of the Necklace,” with Hillary Swank, about the woman who conned the Cardinal into buying the diamond necklace by pretending she was Marie Antoinette . It’s really good!
The audacity of these people denying their guilt of wasting money once they was clearly wasting money is unbelievable.
4:20 Marie Antoinette infamously had her hands bound behind her back during her final journey, just like many of those sentenced to die in the guillotine, and to get up to the scaffold she had to walk up a fairly steep wooden staircase in full view of the crowd, lookjng straight at the towering instrument of her death. She is said to have ascended the steps quickly, her hands still trussed behind, and most likely that is how she happened to trip or stumble, getting one foot in the wrong place.
I wear dresses, and you can't walk up steps without holding the front of your skirt up. If her hands were bound, she would've walked on her own skirt and tripped on it.
You didn’t show us Marie’s full facial cast?!?
Exactly, now I'm going searching for it!
Why did t you show the mask?
You should get your license renewed yyg I bet
Yes b 0:01 But
She showed it at the beginning of the video-duh.
I don't really understand why she was executed for living a queen's life. Every royal lives beyond the commoners. Doesn't make sense.
There was famine in France at the time but the Royal Family and the aristocracy lived in splendor seemengly oblivious of the penuries of the people. The American Revolution was the example to follow. Down with the oppressors!
Oh yes it dose. It was the best thing ever for the liberty of the people of the world from royal tyrants.
She was not executed because of her former way of living, but for treason.
@@mariagallian8057 you do know that royalty can’t control famine
@@mariagallian8057 how were they oppressing the people?
Madame Marie Tussaud's first job was Marie's deathmask, aged 17. What a freaky job, especially for a kid that age! 😮 no, she didn't sneak in to do it - it was a normal thing to do pre-photography.
Madame Tussaud was born in 1761 Marie Antoinette was Executed in 1793.
The details drawn in the paintings🎨 are incredible .
One can clearly see conspiracy theories existed then too.
Her majesty was a victim
Love Marie!
No she was not. Corruption to the core … read history from the archives not the internet please
or use common sense to distinguish what is a reliable source and what is not, rather than foregoing the internet entirely
Her head was found singing in the opening ceremony of Paris 2024.
The French Revolution was needlessly brutal. So heartbreaking 💔
needs to happen again, get rid of royals
People were STARVING to death. Imagine seeing the parties this woman would throw. Back then the people did not have much education. Obviously they wouldn't know what was really happening. She was a naive queen, her husband was immature just as she was, sad all around. But no one is at fault here.
@@JunLala I mean ok, but you don’t kill people over that. I might be starving to death, but does Bill Gates deserve to die because he threw an extravagant party?
SO ANOTHER SHEEP DEFENDING THE ELITES WHILE THEY STARVED THEIR PEOPLE TO DEATH AND LIVED LAVISHED LIFESTYLES, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE SHEEPLE????🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@spudspuddyyou’re a monster if you think it’s necessary to become this violent to the point of executing the innocent. That’s exactly what happened in the French Revolution to the point that even ardent followers of the cause were executed because they weren’t sufficiently extreme.
You don’t understand what you’re demanding for or you do and indeed you’re a bad person.
There is no Evidence that Marie Antoinette ever Said " Let Them Eat Cake " The Saying has Though been Sometimes Attributed to Marie Theresa of Spain 1638 to 1683. Theresa was the Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 Her Husband was King Louis XIV.
I'll believe Freddy Mercury over you buddy.
Louis XIV and Louis XV were responsible for over spending on wars , building Versailles etc etc... and the sad financial state of France. Louis XVI was the unlucky King to inherit their financial mess .
Even to the end she was absolutely considerate and polite. What composure !
Where is the cast of the head now?
When I was 11 years old I saw the wax models of those severed heads from the French revolution in the chamber of horrors. Quite creepy.
Some the pictures are not Marie Antoinette very mis leading . She did not buy furniture from abroad or Europe she had it made by Resiner for one .
I can't believe the last thing she said was being polite to her executionor.
i always thought the affair of the necklace was a set up. marie was shown it but even she said it was to expensive and said no
Yes. She actually refused to buy it and found it very odd when someone said it was going to be a gift for her through a letter. Because she had *refused to buy it*
RIP, Marie. You didn't deserve what you got, but at least people will remember your name.
Why didn’t you show us the mask?
Fascinating. Truly. But if your going to make a video of Marie Antoinette’s death mask maybe SHOW THE DAMN MASK?!?
It was at the very beginning and, it is not a "death mask" but rather Madame Tussaud's original wax modelling of it.
She can't. Marie Antoinette looked an awful LOT different to what's been advertised.
@@miltonkiller707 You saw her with your own eyes then? How do you know?
@@pommiebears I've been paying attention to this channel for a while now. It routinely ignores eyewitness descriptions of historical figures. On one occasion this would be understandable, but several times become an agenda. We know the meaning of words like swarthy, tawny etc. We know what they mean now, and what they meant in their heyday. This channel, in the cases of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I, omits such trivial detail. It also ignored evidence to suggest Ptolemy X, Alexander I was of negroid appearance evident in two defaced busts. Egerton MS 1500 depicts the entire Ptolemy line as blacks, including Cleopatra VII. How did this channel portray her? That's right. Everything here panders to the tastes of a particular audience. Therefore, logic dictates the above portrayal is false, and like you, I seek evidence to prove so. Jean-Antoine Houdon created a bust in 1781. It's said to be the real likeness of Marie Antoinette, even in a cruel twist of fate, having its head broken off from the rest of the statue. Now of, course, unless some authoritative source confirms this, and by that I mean the cognoscenti, we're stuck with agenda driven iconoclasts looking for hits.
She didn't deserve to die like that. The French government needs to apologize to her ancestors.
French government needs to apologize to her family that came before her???🤷🏾♂️
A video about Marie Antoinette’s death mask that doesn’t show the death mask in the video,..ok
It's at the beginning of the video.
@@saynotohookupswhere?
Not any diff than the homeless, poor, suffering in the UK and the contrast of the King. WHY pay for rich people?
Porque pagar por políticos ricos?
Watch Lucy Worsely’s royal myths and secrets. It’s a more detailed documentary about Marie Antoinette.
love Lucy!! Such an educational approach with humor and lively feel of characters of the time, she playing quite a few.
She is an excellent historian and author.
the first communist revolution, before communism even existed as an idea
The French always disliked her. They slamdered and ridiculed her the whole time She was in France.
Is there some audio missing from the end of the video? I only had visuals for almost all of the last minute
That is not what I said. I was merely making the point that she was not to blame for the state of France's economy. France spent 1.3 BILLION LIvres (some say more) to help the Revolution. Then the new government did not pay it back. Someone said that they paid it back in WW1 and WW2. That was a little late don't you think?
I quote James M. Volo, MA in Military History and Wars , American Military University (AMU) (Graduated 1997)4y
" France's debt, aggravated by French involvement in the American Revolution, led Louis XVI to implement new taxation and to reduce privileges. In all the French spent 1.3 billion livres to support the Americans directly in addition to the money it spent fighting Britain on land and sea outside the U.S.
In many ways the American Revolution became of multi-ocean war. In India, British troops gained control of several French outposts in 1778 and 1779. In the Peace of Paris (1783), Cuddalore was returned to Great Britain in exchange for Pondicherry and Mahé, two French territories that British forces had captured earlier in the war. During the next 50 years, Pondicherry changed hands between France and Britain with the regularity of their wars and peace treaties. The Indian territories under French administration were minuscule, especially in comparison to the British India.
As a cost of participation in the American war, France accumulated over 1.0 billion livres of unrelieved debt. France gained little except that it weakened its main strategic enemy and gained a new, fast-growing ally that could become a welcome trading partner. France's help is considered a major, vital, and decisive contribution to the United States' victory against the British. However, the trade with America never materialized. Federalist New England, where most foreign trade originated, remained pro-British."
I think she was just hated because she was austrian
Awhh my poor Queen Marie Antoinette!
She was part of the Royal Family of France....who all poor people hated...because they were poor and suffered...in poverty...
Those who killed her themselves are long dead and it pleases.
Barbarians, plain and simple.
There was no justification for this. What animal would order this?
They usually voted about this, at least when it was about important people, thousands were executed during the revolution and I'm not sure if everyone's case was handled like the King. They usually voted whether they are really guilty during trial and then they voted for punishment. I don't know how it vent in her case but King died because of a single vote cast by Louis Michele Le Peletier.
@@RaRmAn Thanks for the info. I believe in the Death Penalty for murderers, but not for harmless people like those mass murdered for political reasons.
@@TRHARTAmericanArtist A lot of those in charge of the revolution got their turn on the same guilotine they used to kill so many before them, some got killed even sooner. It's why people say that French revolution ate it's own children. They blamed everything on monarchy, but once they got rid of it, they found out that they have no idea how to fix things. Instead of finding a solution they blamed anyone who was in charge at the moment. Which lead to one coup after another until Napoleon took over. Even Le Peletier got his turn. I wonder if he would make the same choice, if he knew that he was sentencing himself as well. He was stabbed to death in a coffee shop because of his vote, on the very same day he decided king's fate.
Crazy how they treated her. She was a spending maniac but to have her head chopped off snd then continue to make fun of it while French spends money billions of illegals it's insane
I think her head appeared at the Paris Olympics
It sadly did. I really don’t understand the french.
I really doubt the story that Madame Tussaud took plaster cast of her head while the gravediggers were lunching. Sounds ridiculous on it's face (pun). More likely, Tussaud used some other woman's head and claimed it was Marie's - simply to create a macabre showpiece for her to make money.
The lesson is even the slightest word of yours will be used against you in your bad days ..
the lesson is that while monarchy sucks, dont use the fact its bad to justify murdering and torturing an entire family and anyone who sympathises with them
Madame Tussauds ' last name is phonetically pronounced "Tooo-sow", the "s" is silent in many french words and names . All over RUclips there are poor descriptions, and bad pronunciations of words commonly know to the educated and the well informed. That no one edits and corrects these things is sad, and lazy
The sound is like in the German "Tü". A sound that does not exist in English.
She was executed in a square called "Place de la Concorde". Today, the US Embassy in Paris is right next to that square.
At the time it was called "Place de la Révolution" - but up until the year before (1792) it had been called, with the darkest irony, "Place Louis XV" (the father and predecessor of her husband the King - Louis XVI had also been decapitated there!). The name "Concorde" (unity, reconciliation) came only in 1795, after the Terror had ended and the revolution entered a more peaceful stage.
@@louise_rose You are right except on one point : Louis XV was Louis XVI's grandfather 😉
@@heliedecastanet1882 Mais oui, bien sûr! 👋
I ❤ this channel!!
Me too!
What was that music at the end? I just woke up 10 minutes and that made me sleepy again
Where's the Tussaud depiction of the head?
A blot on France’s history
The French revolution is the best thing ever for the liberty and freedom of the people of the world, the fight for the rights of mankind took a decisive turn for the best during the French revolution, well done to the people of France.
Long live democracy and humanity and freedom.
@@andrewcooney2387 The worst thing ever to happen to France in her history was the nonsense you espouse. It is absolute stupidity designed to allow what were peasants so-called "freedom." Doing away with sanctioned law, replacing it with "people rule" is what destroyed the world. The only being with right is the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Until or unless you learn and accept this, your vaunted republic is going down.
@@andrewcooney2387 yeah the same thing is claimed by the bolshevik revolutionaries too but ends don't justify the means... the revolutionaries were equally barbaric if not more compared to the royalties.
the french revolution was not a revolution in freedom or liberty
the french revolution allowed a sadist manipulator to run the country and execute people for using the wrong words to address someone, or censor any sympathising with the BRUTAL treatment of the ex royal family
reply edit: censor anything close to sympathy for the ex royal family's brutal treatment
She was held in the Conciergerie. Not the concierge. and she was executed at the Place de la Revolution, not the Palace de La Revolution. And buried at the Basilica Saint Denis. not the Basilia Saint Dennis.
She was buried in a communal grave (fosse commune de la Madeleine) after her execution. Her remains were transported to Saint Denis in 1815, 22 years after her burial.
@@evoandy EvoAndy, you're splitting hairs here and being pretty nit picky. You clearly understand what the commentator meant.
The amount of money Marie spent compared to the amount spent in support of the American revolution is like comparing the budget of nasa compared with the budget of the rest of the American budget
She never said "Let them eat cake."
The music catches me off guard
I agree, It doesn't fit with the video
WHERE IS THE CAST????
Until Netflix decides she was a black queen and made us waste a preciously hour of our live.
Netflix is full of crap
Yep just like Cleopatra. What a joke!
@vanessaofakem1642cleopatra was Greek, madam. I’m not sure how educated you are, but most Greeks did have white skin tones. While yes, it is debatable that Cleo’s skin tone naturally darkened due to the exposure to the sun and other climates in Egypt, she still wasn’t black.
No matter how much you try to rewrite history, you’re only going to look more and more foolish to the real educated individuals who take one look at your elaborate bullshit, and laugh uncontrollably.
did you really just make up a scenario just to be offended about it? 💀
@@RemnantsPvP It was Creek cultura appropriation
So, no picture of the head?
She was a German scapegoat.
She was Austrian.
Money was the excuse, if it hadn't been money, it simply would have been a different excuse
Whats fascinating about her is that many women could easily be her. Married young, ignored by her husband, a queen...what do you expect.
Wasnt her ultimately destroyed? How would the first pictures/thumbnail be possible unles rendered by paintings?
Madame Tussaud did a wax cast of her face after her death. That is what you saw.
If you watch the full video, it does explain.
After watching Paris Olympic opening shenanigans, I kinda feel as the execution of Marie Antoinette was also a wrong doing just as French host Olympic
The executioner's name was Sanson not Samson
Why didn't we see the head????? 🙄😣😮💨
because
A) there were no photograph devices at the time
B) it may never be found depending what they did with it, cant remember
C) ask yourself the same question with someone more recent, like the Queen of England; that speaks for itself
So what happened to the head ,you said people watch her lose her head,but you never said where is the head? Click Bait
She was an Austrian archduchess. not a princess.
An Archduchess is a princess...just of a higher rank than your average princess because her mother was an Empress, which is a higher rank than a Queen.
So where’s the picture of her head? Much ado about nothing, this video
I saw her going somewhere once, I wonder where she could be headed?
These days she's come to be seen as a bit of a scapegoat for the incompetence of her husband. Many of the claims made of her were really done by others (e.g., "let them eat cake" was not said by her), or things she did were not as bad as is aimed today (e.g., the amount she spent on her garden, often claimed today to have been outrageous, was in fact the same amount typically dropped in one nights gambling losses by French aristocrats. And the poor children she adopted were he last action when awaiting death: she made sure tonarrqnge for them, find people who would take them to safety, arrange for their education, and etc.).
What? She did not 'rub their poverty in their faces'. What are you on about.
And yet today during the French opening scene in the Olympics - she was still used as artistic slander... what disrespect for the dead, and the history of France.
Is there anything written about that mark on her face or were those bloodied features just put there for dramatic effect?
Please please please... before recording these voiceovers - words you're unfamiliar with - find how to pronounce them? Without stutterings and hesitations, the result would gain you extra cred. The French in the statement you made should not be "Viva" it should have been "Vive... " pronounced "Veeve".
Also she was jailed at the Conciergerie, not Concierge.
Death comes to everyone but The death is more terrifying if you know when and how it is coming.
What?! How did I never know Madame Tussaud plastered the head of Marie Antoinette??? That’s a massive oversight on my part having read up on all she’s done lol. 😅
She wasn't the only one leading a very indulgent lifestyle. She was as much of a scapegoat of the poor as she was unsympathetic. She didn't live at Versailles all by her lonesome. She wasn't the only one with lavish costumes and wigs, expensive 24 course meals, etc. She never said let them eat cake. Does anyone think the King and his courtiers weren't participating in balls, parties, lavish meals? The courtiers believed they were serving an all powerful King put on the throne by divine right. That's the way royalty worked. What really bankrupted the crown treasuries was the money they spent giving aid to, wait for it, a country in the throes of revolution, the New America. Why? Because the King and his advisors felt that it would weaken their arch enemy, England.
So the answer to your clickbait headline is “nothing really, exactly as you’d expect”. Cheers for wasting 8 minutes.
How many of their fellow revolutionaries did the revolutionaries execute, when they started eating their own?
The head story 4:48
I am here after watching Olympics opening ceremony controversy...
Hi, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. Interesting video. How are you? I'm doing well. Have a great day see you next video greetings from Canada
I know what happened to hear head. It was displayed at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics 😂
I'd say there's a whole bunch of big-time politicians, along with the wealthy people who own them, who would do well to reflect on what happens when The People have finally had enough.
Not only is this factually wrong, but all of the mispronunciations make it horrible to listen to.
so where iz de ead?
Pity they did not do the same in England and help end the exploitation of the Irish.
Not historically accurate and some of these paintings aren’t of Marie Antoinette.