To me, nothing is 100% accurate...It's like a million people standing in a line, and one person says something, and then passes it down, and by the time it get's to the last person in line, the message is completely different then from the beginning. There are probably a lot of other facts that we do not know about Marie Antoinette, enless it comes from the horses mouth, I do not say a thing.
Marie Antoinette was very giving. She did give food to the people in need, she did let peasants stay in the cottages that she had built, she did acknowledge that there were people who had way less then her, she did cut back on expenses as she got older, she did hide behind her palace walls, she did ignore the mobs and horrible pornographic pamphlets that were passed out everywhere about her and lesbian acts, she did have a love affair with the Count Axel Fersen (whom showed her real love), she was misunderstood (if she wasnt Austrian, things would've been much different), she was not the brightest of Queens in my opinion but something about her has us still talking about her today, was it her tragic death? Her up and down rollercoaster ride life? The fact that she was so hated by the French; how could someone be so hated? And so fast? I think a huge problem was the fact that she ignored her people. She did not pay attention to what they were wanting. You have to ask, you have to show concern, and she did neither. She sat inside of those palace walls, and ignored everything that was going on around her. A good Queen would've acknowledged it and took immediate action, even if it meant speaking to the people directly. She just thought that by dressing less extravagent, selling some of her gems, sending some food to the people would show them, but the truth is, most of the people had no idea that she had sold some of jewelry, the people didnt TRUTHFULLY know was going on, they just thought she was having parties, buying clothes, and building buildings (which she was, quite expesnive little whimsacale land with lambs and cottages)........The communication in my opinion would've helped somewhat. King Louis XVI even sat back, just going to bed eating bon bons with no care in the world, he just thought that people would still obey him, bow to him, because he would always be King and nothing would change. People thought it was just a phase, that it was just come and go.....However, about the French citizens themselves, that's just darn right crazy. There have been really bad times in a lot of countries, but you didnt see them killing their own people, and sticking their heads on pikes. I think the French against the French was bad enough.And then Marie and Louis trying to escape in a carriage that was fit for royalty? How would anyone possibly notice that carriage? I am not dogging them whatsoever, but their decisions were not the wisest. They did help the French though. Marie Antoinette did not commit treason, well she did but behind their back and no one knew about it, however they exploited that at her trial saying treason was her reason and then having several gentlemen get up and speak about the pornographic pamphlets; that had nothing to do with the trial. She did commit treason though, but no one knew about it except mostly her family in Austria, towards the end she wanted Austria to attack the French. Marie was very quiet during this trial, I think she had no more strength, her children were taken from her, her husband was killer, what else is there really to live for? Everyone wanted her dead, she a long ways from home, she had tried escaping, she had seen people murdered, she had been called every name in the book..She had no other defense at the time in trial. In my opinion THE french killed the king and the queen of their country, and that is sad sad. Death should not have been the answer. There are other alternatives........Their reasoning for wanting them dead were for the wrong reasons.
