Marie Antoinette

By Tamara Uson

Marie Antoinette was a born as the

archduchess of Austria then later became the Dauphine of France after she got married with Louis-Aguste, the Dauphine of France. And when he became the king "Louis XI of France, she also became the Queen of France and Navarre.


She gained notoriety because she was beautiful and had a charming personality, but later she started to spend lots of money of the monarchy, so the French people looked at her as a big spender, frivolous and promiscuous and because of it, the people started to hate the monarchy and they started to blame her for the misery and poverty that France was at the time.

When the French revolution started, the royal family tried to leave the country, and that looked extremely bad to the French people, so they deposed Louis XI and abolished the monarchy and imprisoned the royal family and later they executed Louis XI, and accused Marie Antoinette of treason and the National Convention convicted her to be executed by guillotine.

Marie Antoinette is still a subject in pop culture, because of her legendary extravagance, stormy love life, her dramas and how she died executed by guillotine. 

I chose Marie Antoinette to write in this blog was basically because of the movie "Marie Antoinette" of Sofia Coppola, and that lead me to believe that Marie Antoinette was a just a teenager when she got married to Louis and she had to leave her family, her country, and even her pug "mops" so i only see a young girl with no connection to reality who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Movie title: "Marie Antoinette"

Year: 2006

Director: Sofia Coppola

Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman 

 Country:  USA/ France/Japan

Languaje: English/Latin/french