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In the book, Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France , the author, Evelyne Lever, paints a beautiful portrayal of the life of Marie Antoinette; from an Austrian princess to Queen of
France to her untimely death at the end of a guillotine. Marie Antoinette was the fifteenth child born to the Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, the Holy Roman Emperor. She lived a carefree childhood until she was strategically married and sent to France when she was fourteen years old. The marriage between Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, the future King of France, was meant to bring Austria and France closer together politically. Unfortunately, that did not happen; instead the monarchy collapsed with Marie Antoinette managing to alienate and offend a vast
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The Holy Roman Emperor’s views were more along the lines of so long as they were virtuous as proficient in the female arts such as music, tapestry work and watercolors, they would know enough to make accomplished wives (8). That did change, though, when Marie became of age and was a prospect for marriage to Louis XVI, the future King of France. In order to make Marie more interesting, Marie Theresa decided to round out her education. A tutor was brought in and Marie Antoinette began learning different languages that would make her more appealing for marriage. This was a strategic plan by her parents and the author made sure to write about the way her education changed. The tutor immediately understood that the only way he could educate and keep her attention was to amuse her. He shortened their lessons and only gave her just enough to help her commit to memory the habits and the histories of the families she would be meeting to hopefully give her an edge and seem more appealing to her suitor.
I was very enthralled by the wedding and marriage between Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI. Marie and her husband Louis XVI were married by proxy with her brother,
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Marie's place in the royal household of France and Franco-Austrian relations absolutely depended on her producing a male heir, even before her husband became the King of France.
Lever went into great detail the frustrations both Louis XVI and Marie dealt within her marriage.
It took the prince a very long time to become comfortable with Marie and Marie just wanted to party and have fun. This story was written as a love story between the two because by the end of their lives, they were both respected and loved each other like a husband and wife should.
As the Queen of France, I think the author was able to convey the type of person that
Marie was to her country. She was deeply devoted to her country but had a very soft spot for her home country of Austria. This would rub a lot of French people off and would, in the end, be her demise. She was caught in a few scandals that rocked her reputation and she was never able to recover from. There were rumors that two of her children were not the King’s biological children because Marie was in the presence of a man that people assumed she was in love with
...is book expresses her ever-changing life and tough it was on the women of this time period.
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was one of the most successful painters of her time. Over the course of her life, spanning from 1755-1842, she painted over 900 works. She enjoyed painting self portraits, completing almost 40 throughout her career, in the style of artists she admired such as Peter Paul Rubens (Montfort). However, the majority of her paintings were beautiful, colorful, idealized likenesses of the aristocrats of her time, the most well known of these being the Queen of France Marie Antoinette, whom she painted from 1779-1789. Not only was Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun the Queen’s portrait painter for ten years, but she also became her close, personal friend. She saw only the luxurious, carefree, colorful, and fabulous lifestyle the aristocracy lived in, rather than the poverty and suffrage much of the rest of the country was going through. Elisabeth kept the ideals of the aristocracy she saw through Marie Antoinette throughout her life, painting a picture of them that she believed to be practically perfect. Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s relationship with Marie Antoinette affected her social standing, politics, painting style, and career.
King Louis attempted to escape, but was quickly captured, taken back to paris, and was tried and executed for crimes against the people. Louis XIV, executed in 1793, was the last Bourbon king of france. Nine months later, his wife was executed. His wife was Marie Antoinette, an Austrian. She married king louis XIV when she was only fifteen years old and had a tough time being queen ever since she got married. She Was blamed for the country going downhill, and she had to live under the supervision of the revolutionary once they took over. In 1793 her husband was executed, and nine month later, so was
In France’s “Lanval,” Marie de France emphasizes the ideal and pure body of Lanval’s Fairy Queen. France describes the Fairy Queen as “elegant, her hips slim, her neck whiter than snow on a branch, her eyes bright, her face white, a beautiful mouth…” (France, 109). The Fairy Queen is presented to the reader as the classic, ideal beauty that captures the attention and, unknowingly, the mind of her lover. After meeting the Fairy Queen, Lanval pledges his life to her. He states, “There is nothing you might command, within my power, that I would not do, whether foolish or wise. I shall obey your command…” (France, 108). ...
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Joan lived during a turbulent time in French history. The French and English states had been at war since 1337 over disputed territories in France and who could inherit the French throne. The English claimed that their king could inherit the French throne through shared royal bloodlines and also inherit vast territories in present-day southwestern France. By the time of Joan’s birth, the English had secured almost all of France and were poised to capture the French crown. The French heir to the throne, the Dauphin, was forced into hiding and Paris was under English control. It was under these dire circumstances that Joan emerged.
Even though Marie couldn’t see she loved to read. She went to the museum everyday with her father. On every one of her birthdays her father got her a brail book to read. Growing up Marie had to learn how to count her steps and to feel things to know where she was at and where she was going. Marie really had to become strong when moving to Saint-Malo. Her father had become distant from everybody. Marie started to become close to her uncle Etienne and his care taker Madame Manec. She was so eager to leave the house and walk around Saint-Malo and feel around. Her father refused and wouldn’t let her leave the
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...ier looked at women as innocent and loving. Lanier was also living a life of poverty. After the death of her husband she was broke and had problems with money. When she did started to get a retirement check she started to get sick.
I believe that the execution and technically assassination of Marie Antoinette was unjustified. There are reasons and it will be presented today, because she didn’t commit theft, treason and she wasn’t properly tried. She may not have been the best queen at times but she still didn’t deserve to be executed by guillotine, because it wasn’t her fault she got made queen at such a young age.
and her lover in 1946 and is sentenced to life in prison. He is sent to the
Therese was born in Lisieux, France in 1873. She was a pampered and well-treated daughter of a mother who wanted to become a saint and a father who wanted to become a monk. Therese was one of nine children. Only five of these children lived and they were all daughters. She didn’t experience the happiest of childhoods, however, because her mother died of breast cancer when Therese was just four and a half years old. Her older sister Pauline became the mother of the family but she entered the Carmelite convent five years later. Just a few months after she entered the convent Therese became very ill with a fever that people thought she was dying. Therese saw her sister’s praying to the statue of Mary in her room, so she followed their example and prayed too. Mary smiled at Therese and suddenly she was cured. She tried to keep the grace of her curing a secret but people found out and constantly questioned her about Mary. Therese didn’t give into their curiosity which caused people to assume that she had made up the story.
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were guilty of treason against France before their trial began. The evidence against them was all of the problems France faced in the late 18th century. Being a divine ruler, they thought that Louis XVI should have taken better care of them since he was supposedly “chosen by God” and they looked down on Marie Antoinette for less significant reasons because she was foreign. However, they were treated the same way as criminals. Since both of them lived apart from Paris, where most of the violence of the Revolution broke out, they were unaware of the condition of France. They still lived in luxury and did not consider the poor, desperate times that others were facing. When the violence started to happen more frequently, the people blamed Louis XVI for declaring war on his own country since he could not contain the outbreaks or control his people anymore.
Saint Catherine was born in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was one of twenty-five children, and she had a twin but she died when she was just an infant. Her father, Giacomo di Benincasa, was a cloth dyer and her mother, Lapa Piagenti, was the daughter of a poet. Catherine grew up being a very happy child. It is reported that when she was around 6, she she had a vision of God. When she was 7, she vowed to give her whole life to God.
She grew up in a family in which both French and English were spoken. Her mother was a member of the French community in St. Louis and her father a successful businessman from Ireland. From the very beginning, she had to confront many misfortunes. In 1855, with just 5 years, her father was killed in a railroad accident. Later, her great grandmother with whom she had a close relation died. Moreover, as it was the time of the Civil War in St. Louis, she had to cope with slaves in her house and finally, her half brother died of typhoid fever after being enlisted in the Confederate