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Marie Antoinette - Wikipedia. Marie Antoinette. Queen consort of France and Navarre. Tenure. 10 May 1. She was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the fifteenth and second youngest child of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. In April 1. 77. 0, upon her marriage to Louis- Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne, she became Dauphine of France.
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On 1. 0 May 1. 77. Louis XVI, she became Queen of France and Navarre, a title she held until September 1. French Revolution proceeded, she became Queen of the French, a title she held until 2. September 1. 79. 2. After eight years of marriage, Marie Antoinette gave birth to a daughter, Marie- Th.
Despite her initial popularity, a growing number of the population eventually came to dislike her, accusing her of being profligate, promiscuous. During the Revolution, she became known as Madame D. On 1. 0 August 1.
Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the Assembly, and on 1. August the family was imprisoned in the Temple.
On 2. 1 September 1. After a two- day trial begun on 1. October 1. 79. 3, Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason, and executed by guillotine on Place de la R. Watercolor on ivory by Antonio Pencini, 1. Vienna, Hofburg. Maria Antonia was born on 2 November 1.
Hofburg Palace, in Vienna. She was the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, ruler of the Habsburg Empire, and her husband Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She learned to play the harp. During the family's gatherings in the evenings, she would sing, as she had a beautiful voice. Joseph Ducreux (1. Following the Seven Years' War and the Diplomatic Revolution of 1.
Empress Maria Theresa decided to end hostilities with her longtime enemy, King Louis XV of France. Their common desire to destroy the ambitions of Prussia and Great Britain and to help secure a definitive peace between them led them to seal their alliance with a marriage: on 7 February 1. Louis XV formally asked the hand of Maria Antonia for his eldest surviving grandson and heir Louis- Auguste, Duke of Berry and Dauphin of France. Upon her arrival in France, she adopted the French version of her name: Marie Antoinette. A further ceremonial wedding took place on 1. May 1. 77. 0 in the Palace of Versailles and, after the festivities, the day ended with the ritual bedding. On the one hand, the Dauphine was beautiful, personable and well- liked by the common people.
Her first official appearance in Paris on 8 June 1. On the other hand, those opposed to the alliance with Austria, and others, for personal reasons, had a difficult relationship with Marie Antoinette. In 1. 77. 0 she was instrumental in ousting . Marie Antoinette was persuaded by her husband's aunts to refuse to even acknowledge du Barry, but some saw this as a political blunder that jeopardised Austria's interests at the French court. However, Marie Antoinette's mother and the Austrian ambassador to France, comte de Mercy- Argenteau who was sending the Empress secret reports on Marie- Antoinette's behavior, put Marie Antoinette under pressure and she grudgingly agreed to speak to Madame du Barry on New Year's Day 1. At the outset, the new queen had limited political influence with her husband, who with the support of his two most important ministers, Chief Minister Maurepas and Foreign Minister Vergennes, blocked several of her candidates from taking important positions, including Choiseul. For her, Rose Bertin created dresses, hair styles such as poufs up to three feet (9.
She and her court also adopted the English fashion of dresses made of indienne (a material banned in France from 1. Most noted was Marie- Louise, princesse de Lamballe, related to the royal family through her marriage into the Penthi.
On 1. 9 September 1. Superintendent of her Household. He met his sister and her husband on 1. April 1. 77. 7 at the ch. The Peace of Teschen, signed on 1. May 1. 77. 9, ended the brief conflict, with the queen imposing French mediation on the demand of her mother, and Austria's gaining a territory of at least 1.
French position which was hostile towards Austria with the impression, partially justified, that the queen sided with Austria against France . This controversial portrait was viewed by her critics to be improper for a queen. Meanwhile, the queen began to institute changes in the customs practiced at court. Some changes were met with disapproval from the older generation, such as the abandonment of heavy make- up and the popular wide- hooped panniers. The new fashion called for a more simple feminine look, typified first by the rustic robe . More than that, the decree by de S.
Marie Antoinette feared that the death of her mother would jeopardise the Franco- Austrian alliance (as well as, ultimately, herself), but her brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, wrote to her that he had no intention of breaking the alliance. Finally, the queen was able to obtain her brother's support against Great Britain in the American Revolution and she neutralized French hostility to his alliance with Russia. On the other hand, both the king and the queen trusted Mme de Polignac completely, gave her a thirteen- room apartment in Versailles and paid her well. There were and still are claims that the two were romantically involved.
Those on music, often dedicated to her, were the most read, though she also liked to read history. After initially having been banned by the king due to its negative portrayal of the nobility, the play was finally allowed to be publicly performed because of the queen's support and its overwhelming popularity at court, where secret readings of it had been given by Marie Antoinette. The play was a disaster for the image of the monarchy and aristocracy. It did inspire Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, which premiered in Vienna on 1 May 1. This was unpopular, particularly with some factions of the nobility who disliked the queen, but also with a growing percentage of the population who disapproved of a Queen of France owning her private residence independently of the king; thus, the purchase of Saint- Cloud contributed to damage the image of the queen even further in the public opinion. The main actors of the scandal were the Cardinal de Rohan, prince de Rohan- Gu. Marie Antoinette had a profound dislike for Rohan since the time he had been the French ambassador to Vienna when she was a child.
Despite his high clerical position at the Court, she never addressed a word to him. Others involved were Nicole Legay, alias baronne d'Oliva, a prostitute who happened to be a lookalike of Marie Antoinette, R. Mme de La Motte tricked Rohan into buying the necklace as a gift to Marie- Antoinette, in order for him to get into the favors of the queen. When the affair was discovered, those involved (except de La Motte and R.
The only one imprisoned was Mme de La Motte, who was given a life sentence to Piti. Judged by the Parlement, Rohan was found innocent of any wrongdoing (which he was), and allowed to leave the Bastille.
Marie Antoinette, who had insisted on the arrest of the Cardinal was dealt a heavy personal blow, as was the monarchy, and despite the fact that the guilty parties were tried and convicted, the affair proved to be extremely damaging to her reputation, which never recovered from it. Failure of political and financial reforms. In her new role and with increasing degree of power as a politically viable entity, the queen tried to help the situation brewing between the assembly and the king. The assembly was held to attempt passing necessary financial reforms, but the Parlements refused to cooperate.
The first meeting took place on 2. February 1. 78. 7, (nine days after the death of Vergennes on 1.
February). Marie Antoinette did not attend the meeting and her absence resulted in accusations that the queen was trying to undermine its purpose. On the urging of the queen, Louis XVI dismissed Calonne on 8 April 1. He began to institute more cutbacks at court, while trying to restore the royal absolute power weakened by parliaments. The continued poor financial climate of the country resulted in the 2. May dissolution of the Assembly of Notables because of its inability to get things done, and the lack of solutions was blamed on the queen. As a result of the public perception that she had single- handedly ruined the national finances, Marie Antoinette was given the nickname of . She had played a decisive role in the disgrace of the reformer Ministers of Finance, Turgot (in 1.
Jacques Necker (first dismissal in 1. If the secret expenses of the queen were taken into account, the expense of the court was much higher than the official estimate of 7% of the state budget. It further deteriorated when Louis XVI tried to use a lit de justice on 1. November to impose legislation.
Finally, on 8 August, Louis XVI announced his intention to bring back the Estates General, the traditional elected legislature of the country, which had not been convened since 1. From time of its very opening on 5 May 1.
Third Estate (consisting of bourgeois and radical aristocrats), and the conservative nobility of the Second Estate widened, and Marie Antoinette knew that her rival, the duc d'Orl. As the Third Estate declared itself a National Assembly and took the Tennis Court Oath, and as people either spread or believed rumors that the queen wished to bathe in their blood, Marie Antoinette went into mourning for her eldest son.
In addition, she was showing her determination to use force to crush the forthcoming revolution. It thus met at the tennis court in Versailles and took the Tennis Court Oath not to separate before it had given a constitution to the nation. On 1. 1 July, on Marie Antoinette's urging, Necker was dismissed to be replaced by Breteuil, the queen's choice to crush the Revolution with mercenary Swiss troops under the command of one of her favorites, Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Br.