Marie Antoinette And Fraser Let Them Eat Cake

The famous line, “Let them eat cake”, comes from the of the lady Marie Antoinette in which she grew up in a time period where she was not fit to live in. In the non-fictional book, Marie Antoinette, by Antonia Fraser, a mother named Marie Therese gives birth to a beautiful girl named Marie Antoinette. This girl grew up to be the queen of France, where she face situations that she could not solve. Her journey that led her to be queen of France was only for her to marry Louis XVI, but the consequence of this was that Marie Antoinette was not prepared to face the french politics. Also Antoinette was only part of this to create the Franco-Prussian alliances. Throughout her the young girl’s life Marie Antoinette has faced a life full of luxury,

For example many believed that she did not say “Let them eat cake”, and Fraser settle the concept straight by supporting the idea that Antoinette never said the statement. On the other hand she does support the idea that Antoinette had an affair with Fersen but there is no evidence that clearly shows that Antoinette and Fersen had an affair. Fraser defends her argument by saying that they had sexual affairs for the simple reason that it was just human nature. Fraser also mentions that Antoinette was suspected of being a

Antoinette was born in a time period that she did not belong in but overall the people of France chose her fate for the actions and consequences that Fraser mentioned within the book. Fraser in the book sympathizes for Marie Antoinette but at the end of Antoinette's story she dies by the guillotine. In fact Fraser mentions that Marie Antoinette could be blamed for the French Revolution and the starvation of the french people. Although I disagree, where in Louis place he could of done some actual work and try to comprehend the people of