Marie Antoinette help?

Question

Marie Antoinette is the queen I'm doing a project on do you have any help or web sites i can get info off? and make sure theses sites or info aren't boarding!!

-thanks

Answer 1

Starting with Wikipedia is a good start, because it gives you an overview.  Then try www.marie_antoinette.org for more in-depth stuff, as well as www.royalty.nu -- type in "Marie Antoinette" in the search block..  There's also a good book, "Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France"  by Evelyne Lever.

You can also check your libary and video store and see if they have the PBS series on Marie Antoinette from 2006 -- that was excellent. And, of course A&E Biography has featured her, too, on a program that you might be able to get the DVD for.

But for heaven's sake, stay away from that awful movie that Sofia Coppola produced a couple of years ago on Marie Antoinette.  The costumes were nice, but liberties were taken with the history.

Answer 2

wikipedia.com is the best site for research in my opinion.   Or go to your local library and check out some of the great references they have on Marie Antoinette.

Answer 3

Marie Antoinette born 1755 executed by guillotine during the French Revolution in Oct. of 1793.. wife of King Louis XVI

and daughter of the empress Maria Teresa of Austria...

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/rulers...

Answer 4

she wore pretty purple shoesto her execution and apologized to the executioner for stepping on his toes. also that whole let them eat cake either never happened or was mistranslated as atype of dirtcheap bread. anybody who says they know for sure is lying

Answer 5

boarding?

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/web...

Answer 6

Whatever you do, do not use wikipedia! it is terrible for getting factual information, anyone can post anything they want on there even if it's not true.  i recommend reading the book Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Frasier.  It is very detailed and interesting.

Answer 7

Marie Antoinette's full name was Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen. She was born on November 2, 1755, and was executed on October 16, 1793 at the age of 38. Marie Antoinette made many changes in the customs practiced at court, with the approval of the king.

Some changes, such as the abolition of segregated dining spaces. More importantly was the abandonment of heavy make-up and the popular wide-hooped panniers for a more simple female look. She also began to participate in amateur plays and musicals, starting in 1780, in a theatre built for her and other courtiers who wished to indulge in the delights of acting and singing.

Marie Antoinette's temperament was more suited to her children, whose education and upbringing she personally directed. This was against the traditions of Versailles, where the queen usually had little say over the Enfants de France, as the royal children were called, and they were instead handed over to various courtiers who fought over the privilege.

http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/Mari...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoi...

http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/Mari...