The most beautiful, bohemian queen of France

The last French queen is famous for being beautiful, but also criticized for her most lavish, extravagant play in France.

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) is the daughter of Queen of Austria Kingdom of Marie Theresa. Marie Antoinette from an early age has been praised as a gentle and beautiful princess as an angel by the world.

The character Marie Antoinette in the film of the same name screened in 2006.

Young people play, dissolute

The relationship between France and Austria at that time was extremely tense, which could ignite war because the two dynasties all wanted to gain European domination.

In order for the two countries to live in peace, Theresa thought of a way for Marie Antoinette to match her grandson of the French King Loius XV, the future of the French throne.

In 1770, when 15-year-old Marie Antoinette was married to France. Not long after Loius XV died, her husband became the successor of the throne. Marie Antoinette became French Queen when she was less than 20 years old.

The years full of youth must force themselves into many strict royal courtesies that make Marie Antoinette always feel her youthful exposure is stolen.

The young queen did not hide her tiredness and was discouraged by strict rules covering her own position.

Too sad and disappointed, Marie Antoinette tried to avoid the failed marriage and the boring life of the court.

Marie Antoinette began to find ways to meddle with stealthy trips. The young queen immersed herself in the mundane pleasures of Paris throughout the day and night.

Sketch image of French queen Marie Antoinette.

Her wild friends and entertainment turned out to be a typical story of a terrible waste, including taking a dip in a bath filled with premium champagne or building the Petit Trianon palace on her orders. .

In the late 1780s, Marie Antoinette's discontent and hatred began to spread. Many in the court did not approve of the alliance with Austria and resented the queen for his support of Austria.

The French people believed that Marie Antoinette was sympathetic to the French enemies, taking money from the treasury to her homeland, plotting to kill the Duke of Orléans and involving many other cases.

One of the other scandals for life related to Queen Marie Antoinette is that she once said: "If they don't have bread to eat, let them eat ice cream cake" , when they hear that the farmers are starving because enough bread to eat. With this saying, the young queen became the focus of criticism of public opinion.

Besides, many people are angry because she doesn't care about the rituals of the court and always keeps their looks on them. It is the grievances in the royal family that rumors about Marie Antoinette began to spread widely.

They weaved and whispered to each other the story of Marie Antoinette's illicit relationship with the people in the court, about the queen sending her possessions to her homeland and questioning the father of the royal children.

Marie Antoinette is famous for being the most playful, bohemian queen.

This is also the source of rumors about two of the last four children of the Queen of France without the blood of Louis XVI.

Secret love

In 2016, after many years of studying a series of letters from Queen Marie Antoinette talking to Count Axel von Fersen , the British historian Evelyn Farr came to concussion.

Accordingly, the two men had a secret love affair that lasted for 20 years, which resulted in Princess Sophie and Prince Louis - Charles.

Historian Farr spent 2 years decoding the letters in archives throughout Europe, as well as relating to many other historical documents.

Queen Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen may have met at a young age, after the Queen was married to the future king of France. They maintain a passionate and dangerous love affair that lasts for two decades.

While traveling across Europe collecting letters, historian Farr sympathized with the Empress: "She is a woman who encounters an impossible situation, gets married at a young age and falls in love with others. Between the courtiers and friends are the ones who pay the price of a bag of rice, she only loves one person during the marriage and is not her husband. "

In January 1792, Queen Marie Antoinette wrote a letter when under house arrest in the Tuileries palace: "I love you crazy. There is no moment that I don't love you."

Marie Antoinette is one of the most controversial figures in French history.

These scent words were later erased. Because the recipient is not King Louis XVI, but Count Axel von Fersen.

Farr historian also discovered important information from the letter of Count Fersen to Queen Antoinette: "I love you and will always love you for the rest of my life . without you having no happiness for you".

However, there is an opinion that the relationship between the two only takes place on letter pages, not on reality. Because Queen Antoinette could not maintain this secret relationship that had both children with Mr. Fersen, no one knew.

The outcome of the beautiful, infamous French prince is quite bitter. On October 14, 1793, 4 years after the French Revolution succeeded, Marie Antoinette was brought to trial.

She was convicted of treason, had her hair cut, marched across the streets of Paris in a rickshaw and was beheaded at Revolution Square at age 37.

Today, Marie Antoinette becomes the subject of many French film and literary works.

Some scholars argue that her frivolous, shallow nature is one of the causes of the French Revolution. Others believe she has been treated unfairly, and deserve a more sympathetic look.