Another fascinating video! Bravo 👏.

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It is now thought to have originally been a portrait of one of her elder sisters that was then later retouched to turn it into Marie Antoinette. The pastel by Ducreux of 1769 is probably a more accurate likeness although it allegedly took him five attempts to capture any close resemblance.

She looked 13 at 15...

Pan.could u do richard the lionheart.i mentioned his mother just now.and i believe from what i read that he DID look like his mother.thanks.🙂

What happened to her head and body. Give me a heads up OR heads off. LMAO

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I always imagine her looking like a more Caucasian version of Imelda Marcos or maybe like those movie stars from 1930s to 1960s who look so ethereal.

Apparently the closest resemblance in either painted or sculpted media is the bust of 1783 by Félix Lecomte currently in the Queen’s bedchamber at Versailles.

@@piplebref4607 I actually have a miniature of that bust alongside Louis on my dressing table, so pretty!

L'Autrichienne

Initially the French people loved her as times were not so hard. It was only later, due to her ignoring so many in the court, that she was turned upon. Many of the common people loved her as she helped them in a number of ways - she even “adopted” a poor child, she taught her own children to be kind to others, and she gave money. It was the nobles who were petty and turned on her. A tragic life, nonetheless.

Because the Romanov's family let the peasants die for famine too?

@@artemisa1523 NO!

@@regenfrau7823 you are right

Yes like saying let them Eat cake She actually never said it and her husband was a procrastinator and ignorer of issues it was actually his lack of doing that caused most of the issue

@@andreapyeatt2673 OK that she didn't say but despite that she had a wasteful lifestyle which was a cause for the starvation of the French common people. I don't approve her execution but I know also that people who are starving can do very terrible actions.

@@patrickdevries6267 I feel more sorry for the palace guards and their commander who were mobbed, beheaded and disfigured by skewering their heads on sticks and paraded on the streets. They were just doing their job. When severe hunger and hardships really strike, humans become beasts and never sees anything humane and reasonable. It's just like what's happening today, and it may get worse as time goes by. Tragic.

@@andreapyeatt2673 but what about that infamous diamond necklace?

@@mariavictoriasalita2908 she had nothing to do with it. Her name was just used for it

Only her daughter survived. her son died in prison at 11 , from neglect, he also went insane due to all the horrible abuse by the guards . It's so sad , his sister would here him scramming, and crying for there mother .

Similar to the Bolsheviks Revolution in Russia. They didn't have to torture or kill the kids for the sins of their parents...

@@jamellfoster6029 Sadly, death of the children was necessary, if they couldn't be indoctrinated into Communists. The Czech army was approaching to take them away, their descendants posed a threat to Bolshevik rule, they couldn't be moved. I'm not justifying it, I'm simply saying that that's what would've inevitably happened, regardless of how you spin it. They weren't killed out of spite, but out of necessity.

@@triplehmafia6556 when in reality it was more neccessary to kill the bolsheviks. "Oh how different things would have been if there had been 4-5 neighbors armed with shotguns hidden at the foot of the stairs instead of sitting there helpless waiting for the footsteps"-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn(from 'The Gulag Achipelago')

@@plantfeeder6677 Certainly, I'm sure that oblast only had the Romanovs killed out of fear of what would happen to them if they failed to carry out the task, or if the Romanov's were secured by the White Army.

Same I love them both they are beautiful people❤❤❤

Mine as well! She has a certain elegance.

@@jasminep.9860 and they actually met when Mozart is around 6 years old not 8 and Marie is also 7 at that time not 9, its funny when Mozart in that age proposed to Marie when she helped him up

@@lilyagalonasakura5576 Adorable!

It’s odd that Mozart had a sister who also composed and Mozart himself adored her work. Apparently none of her music have survived (or they’ve might have been even credited to her brother) because of course

It's an iconic myth expressing how out of touch she was with the reality of normal life. Live like that, born into it, married into it, it's hard for the very wealthy to know what reality is like for people who ARE NOT like them. It still is.

Didn't she say "I beg your pardon"?

@@andrewthornhill7042 You're 100% correct but is was more 'pardonnez moi monsieur', my bad.

Lm

She had manners and was polite as befitted her station. Till the end, she never lost her dignity. She had cancer in the end, and was bleeding profusely throughout her trial. She went from a fresh, gorgeous-looking young woman, to a drained, woman battered snd shrivelled by panic, fear, worry, sorrow, hopelesness. Although she was only 36 when she was killed, she looked seventy.

Her daughter died as well tho

@@sakitheduck6184 Marie Therese survived the reign of terror. She died at age 72. She survived her parents and her siblings.

Yes !! I never thought about that. Very accurate 👌

Absolutely true! All the time I had the feeling that this face looked familiar 👍👍👍

I agree

Same

She looks like a cross between a very young Sharon Stone, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep combined. What do you think?

@@mariavictoriasalita2908 Sure, all very successful and in their own unique ways beautiful. She could also have been successful in their era, 1980's to present. Or, the Golden Age of Hollywood, or the era between the two. She's one of the few legendary historical ladies played by glamorous actresses in Hollywood movies who could actually have matched their beauty and glamour! She was known for such in her time.

the one with dark hair was taken from the miniature, which looked to be powdered dark hair. its possible that they had put a dark colored powder (as coloring was common). the artist just copies what the images are and brings them to life.

agree!

Hello, you can stop the video, or make it go back to read the text calmly.

@@jhoang861 Hello, you can stop the video, or make it go back to read the text calmly.

Whenever there is text, I just click on "pause" symbol to read it completely, then resume "play."

Too quick to read, very true.

Good idea!

Me too because i don't think the AI are very accurate.

I think the artists made sure the portraits would be flattering (of course!)..who wants to tick off a royal? That wd include slightly enlarging the eyes, as they are the focus of the face. Seeing numerous portraits of European royals, I also suspect a small mouth was the beauty standard for women/ maybe even men? I bet the depictions were also very much influenced by the beauty standards of the day.

Not very accurate I believe. For centuries the paintings were made to flatter the model. It was not expected to be realistic. The artist also made adjustments to follow the current beauty ideals. So the model should recognise him/herself on the painting but it would be idealised version.

It was well known that the paintings flattered them.

You can. madame tussaud met her and her family. There’s some wax figures of them modeled after madame tussaud’s.

Oui elle n'a pas mérité ce sort si atroce...

The powdered hair, possibly.

If you are black, you have to know that Marie antoinette was very generous with colored people, which was exceptional at that time. Marie-Antoinette has received and raised a black boy (a Senegalese). She gave him a refined education in Versailles, near Paris. She called him "Jean Amilcar", because she wanted him to be considered as a French, despite his skin color. Even after she had to leave Versailles, she had continued to pay the education of this senegalese boy. And she paid it with her own money. And when Marie-Antoinette understood that she will be executed (assassinated) by these proto-communists ("jacobins"), she asked a friend of her to make sure that the education of this black child continues to be paid to him and that he continues to be protected, even after she died. I am French. You have to remember that, at that time, almost all of Europeans were racists. Queen of France Marie-Antoinette was literaly an exception. She wanted to be generous, even with the simple farmers, even with the commoners, and even with black people. Another anecdote : despite the segregation and against the will of all aristocrats, Marie-Antoinette has protected a mulato, Who was called "Chevalier de Saint George". Marie-Antoinette made him her music director. And after that, she appointed him to head of l'Opéra Royal, in Paris. Really, Marie-Antoinette was very generous with all people, she felt closer to the French People than to the parasitic aristocracy of her time. She was against racism, which is common nowadays but was exceptional at that time. Really, She was a great Queen for France and for Humanity.

@@philippehenriot8245 Wow, I didn't know about some of this! Thank you.

Thanks for watching!

Marie Amélie was Queen of the French, not Queen of France. The last holder of the title Queen of France was in fact Marie Antoinette’s daughter who held it for about 20 minutes following the abdication of Charles X.

@@piplebref4607 Well, what i meant is that Marie wasn't the last Queen, not the triviality of the title itself, but if that is the case, then you are correct pointing out Marie-Thérèse as last reine de France.

Yes she was. Beautiful in multiple ways

Well, but the Habsburgs as an ages old dynasty were not really indigenous Austrians but pan-European in every sense of the word. And very inbred as well :9

Thank you much appreciated!

@@panagiotisconstantinou I love the harpsichord music. She looks very beautiful sporting a very simple hairdo and barely any make-up or none at all. I can't pinpoint which actress/es she looked like.

It was just fashion. Fashion can be really weird sometimes.

They weren’t just wigs. Because they believed bathing in hot water opened pores, they did not wash their hair often. So to pomade and powder their hair helped to keep it clean and so they could hold the styles. Wigs harbored mites and lice, ew!

if you don't understand the powdered wigs and all the extravagances then youve never been young !!! think of punk in the 80's or flower power in the 60's ....we all tried to be different and get attention in our youth !!! same goes for a frustrated young queen piling up hair and feathers on her head :-)

@@olavwilhelm6843 I guess I have never been a teenager. I only became a child and it just extended. I never followed any trends as I was growing up.

And know that nine times out of ten no one has ever really judged you in life or would have but when you are a person with such stinking thinking you have it in your mind others are as judgemental and hateful as yourself and that's not always true. Hope you learn a lesson from this post and live the rest of your life authentic and stop trying to hinder others in their authenticity.

OMG!

She might be get falsely blamed. But her waste of money lifestyle and her naive standpoint on politics cause her and her husband death. She is the member of the aristocracy who is occupied the whole nationals weath, throwing money on expensive stuff eventually caused the Deficit, she is not the direct politic leader, but she belongs to the part the bad politics for many ordinary people, therefore, when masses had enough of the aristocracy exploitative ruling, rebel and anti aristocracy revolution is inevitable. Dirty politic is unavoidable as well.

Actually that's because she was only half Austrian. Her father was French. He was born Duke of Lorraine (which was an independent duchy in France, not officially French at this time, but already culturally French).

I just quickly pause when I see text and then read as I want to!

@@swinebar On certain devices, yes that works. Difficult to pause on others, such as a TV, because the "pause" graphics cover most of the screen and the image is darkened, as well.

How blonde was Marie Antoinette's hair? I was only thinking of yellow or golden blonde like Agneetha from ABBA or white blonde like Marilyn Monroe. I also don't have an idea what's the closest shade of ash blonde.

Isn't the royal family in Denmark French or Italian? They are not native to Denmark, unless I am mistaken. I am an ignorant American so forgive me if I am wrong.

@@wednesdayschild3627 All Europeans royals are related.

@@enlilw-l2 yes

@@wednesdayschild3627 the Danish royal family (The House of Oldenburg) originated in Germany and have been ruling Denmark for centuries though Queen Margarethes husband was French. It is the Swedish and Spanish royal.families who were originally French.

@@pedanticradiator1491 thank you for explaining this to me.

She was blonde 👱‍♂️

I noticed that too! Otherwise a great video.

@@enlilw-l2 She was strawberry blonde.

Her hairlocket indicates that she was strawberry blonde

@@jasminep.9860 Strawberry blonde is not a natural color, she was ash blonde exactly.

Thats no reason to killed her as they did

Not true. She was nothing like she has been depicted as. This was attested to by her personal servants who all adored her and looked up to her. She did much to help the French peasants and even adopted a French orphan whose grandparents couldn't afford to keep him and all his siblings after their parents died. Marie took him in as her own child and paid for his education and let him live in luxury at court. She also took responsibility for educating her own children, whom she made invite French peasant children to play and take meals with them, so they would learn about others less fortunate than themselves and to treat everyone as equals. This is how her own mother brought her and her siblings up, and every Xmas and birthday among the hundreds of gifts they received they were only allowed to keep one and had to give the ret away to poor local children. They also were made to invite poor children to play and share meals with them. Marie was so kind and charitable to the poor while at that the French court that the king, her father in law chided her.........

Omg this was all Revolutionaire propaganda !!! Fake news ??? You understand ? Like the same what the news do today ! Pouaaah in France they finally have see that she was MURDERD and that NO ONE had to die because they are aristocrate ! Did you read or see document aboit la Revolution currently ? I mean the new one not the document from 50 yrs ago 🤦🏼‍♀️

To what he replied : sorry but I do really mean the following to happen !

@@antoinemozart243 There are no records of him saying that.

@@nassimboussaadia6720 of course he didnt say that !

@@antoinemozart243 I know

If you are black, you have to know that Marie antoinette was very generous with colored people, which was exceptional at that time. Marie-Antoinette has received and raised a black boy (a Senegalese). She gave him a refined education in Versailles, near Paris. She called him "Jean Amilcar", because she wanted him to be considered as a French, despite his skin color. Even after she had to leave Versailles, she had continued to pay the education of this senegalese boy. And she paid it with her own money. And when Marie-Antoinette understood that she will be executed (assassinated) by these proto-communists ("jacobins"), she asked a friend of her to make sure that the education of this black child continues to be paid to him and that he continues to be protected, even after she died. I am French. You have to remember that, at that time, almost all of Europeans were racists. Queen of France Marie-Antoinette was literaly an exception. She wanted to be generous, even with the simple farmers, even with the commoners, and even with black people. Another anecdote : despite the segregation and against the will of all aristocrats, Marie-Antoinette has protected a mulato, Who was called "Chevalier de Saint George". Marie-Antoinette made him her music director. And after that, she appointed him to head of l'Opéra Royal, in Paris. Really, Marie-Antoinette was very generous with all people, she felt closer to the French People than to the parasitic aristocracy of her time. She was against racism, which is common nowadays but was exceptional at that time. Really, She was a great Queen for France and for Humanity.

@@philippehenriot8245 thanks for that review. I'm of African descent. I too have respect for Marie because of her attitude towards blacks and people of color. But let us look at the bigger picture, therefore my added review here, is in order.The Jacobin's ideology of the rights of man like America's, was largely drawn from the enlightenment movement, this led to the Jacobins being anti-slavery despite their state terror infamy...and how ironic it is that... enlightenment America perpetuated (the) slavery that revolutionary France via the Jacobin party eschewed. This fact is not widely known by amateur historians. I too am angry at the Jacobins for executing the beautiful Marie-antoinette, But the zeitgeist (spirit of the times) of that era was changing, which led ultimately to the displacement of the ancien régime (Old régime) a régime to which Marie-antoinette belongs. The ancien régime was a monarchial system that was pro-slavery ...despite Marie's kindness to blacks. So then.. thanks should also be given for the successes of the french (and American revolution) for the destruction of those old monarchial (and hence slavery) systems. Without that destruction bills of rights probably would never have been written. I should also Note that the ideological underpinnings of enlightenment rationalism that ignited the french and American revolution... ultimately led to the abolishment of slavery. The american constitution, I must also add, have embedded within it enlightenment ideals that greatly helped the abolitionists cause, and for that we give thanks.

@@patrickjohnson1808 Sorry for my english, actually I used a translator for my first message, nevertheless I think that you will understand the main part of my message. The French Revolution is a very complex phenomenon, I was refering to the most radical and criminal men of this revolution. I didn't refer to the "Philosophes des Lumières", which was also a complex period. For instance, nobody in history was more racist than Voltaire. And je his still considered as the main ideological source of the Revolution. When I spoke by using the expression "proto-communist", I had on my mind the Terror, not the Declaration des droits de l'Homme. And I didn't defend monarchy, even if monarchy was not more for slavery than America, where a lot of black people had to work in plantations. In my first message, the only thing that I wanted to defend was the kindness of Marie-Antoinette. And her generosity. As I wrote, at that time, almost all Europeans (but also colored people) were racist. It's precisely the fact that I wanted to underline : the generosity of Marie-Antoinette with black people (and commoners) was exceptional.

@@philippehenriot8245 great. I enjoyed your comments. I'm in total agreement agreement with you on all points. I indeed admire Marie for those things. Thanks for pointing out her generosity to me specifically.

@@patrickjohnson1808 I sent the same message to two other black people on comments, and to people in general, I wrote a less specific message, but also concerning her aristocratic attitude, and the slanderous pamphlets that were written against her, among others by the british secret services (Paraph men).

Many thanks

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