Marie Antoinette: Hero Or Villain

Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France, she was an Austrian princess who was sent to France to marry the dauphin of France at fourteen years old. She spent her time dancing at parties, playing cards and shopping. Marie Antoinette was very profligate in her spending, she didn’t know about the people of France’s suffering, she was also a good person. Marie Antoinette is seen as a villain because she was oblivious to how much debt they were in and how the people were starving, she didn’t consummate her marriage early, she was arrogant and petty, but towards the end of her life she was a good person and great mother .

Marie Antoinette was sent to marry Louis-Auguste, the dauphin de France in 1768. She had grey-blue eyes and

Madame Du Berry was a very snobbish woman who was very full of herself. Marie Antoinette thought it beneath her to speak to the mistress and because of social ranking Madame Du Merry could not speak to Marie Antoinette unless Marie Antoinette spoke to her first. Her mother told her that it was unwise to snub the king's favorite, so one day she walked by her and said "There are a lot of people at Versailles tonight, aren't there” to Madame Du Berry. She later said to her mother "My duties here are sometimes hard to fulfill.” The way Marie Antoinette acted towards Madame Du Berry may seem iniquitous, but Madame Du Berry was equally to blame for the little feud. She didn’t usually interrupt her husband's work, but when she first got to France she interrupted an official German greeting with, "Speak French, Monsieur. From now on I hear no language other than French." Marie Antoinette was famous for her fashion, especially her extravagant wigs, she was once rumored to have worn a model of a ship on her powdered wig. The man behind her extravagant wigs was Leonard Autie, a country barber from the south of France who invented of the pouf. Marie Antoinette had a little village built so she could pretend she was a milkmaid, she enjoyed roaming her village with her daughter. She had a “little white dress” made which was shocking to all who saw her in it because when she wore she didn’t look like a queen. She was really into fashion, even though she was hated by most of the French people they still copied her