I've always felt that Marie Antoinette's death was rather unfair. Partially because she was a generous patronous of the poor, partially because as the Queen Consort, she had no legal right to change the law. Having little education regarding agriculture, animal husbandry, politics, and problem solving for a nation, she had no idea how bad the issues were or how to remedy them. She wad 14 when she was sent to another nation to marry a stranger and provide him with heirs. Its criminal that after her death, men desecrated and abused her children, then had the gall to accuse her of saying " Well let them eat cake tben" when told the peasants were angry because they had not enough money for bread and they were hungry. She never said this.

Did Marie Antoinette spend exorbitant amounts of money? Yes. But it was a small amount compared to the amount that France spent supporting the American revolution. That is what bankrupted France. It was the unfortunate queen who paid the price.

Marie was used as a scapegoat. "I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

I think Marie Antoinette is one of the most slandered women of her time. It's painful that people continue to repeat the lies about her.

I think it’s important to mention the accusations of child abuse and pedophilia were obtained by her jailers and their own physical, sexual and emotional abuse of Marie Antoinette’s own children. After she was executed the male child was left to rot in a cell where he was raped by his jailers and eventually became so physically abused that he became non verbal. He was neglected until he eventually died of disease and abuse.

I think we sometimes forget how stoic and brave these executed women were. They had strength of mind and character that I can only hope to aspire to. Queen Marie Antoinette had to ride through the streets of jeering, spitting, nasty crowds, climb the steps of the scaffold without falling or seeming to tremble or to shake. She remembered her manners moments from death. She must have been consumed with fear and worry about her children. She was totally alone at that moment in a seething crowd of haters. How lost she must have felt. She was then manhandled onto the frame and …thud! I think of other unjustly royal executed women, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Mary Queen of Scots, the Russian Tsarina & princesses - all so brave. Would I have been so calm & collected? Nope. Don’t think so. I think faith played a part, but their sense of duty did too. 😊

This video has history incorrectly. Marie Antoinette was known as a generous patron of charity and moved by the plight of the poor, was a devoted mother and grief stricken at the loss of baby Sophia and then later her son Joseph. When the court cut back on "expenses" there was a near revolt it is reported by the many dozens of trades people depending on Versailles to earn a living. “Let them eat cake,” or Qu’ils mangent de la brioche" (Also, "S’il n’y a pas de pain on mangera de la brioche") attributed to first be found in Jean-Jacqque Rousseau’s Confessions, Book Six, 1765. Also attributed to Marie-Thérése, wife of Louis XIV, again who would have only been 14 years old when Rousseau’s Confessions were written. Brioche is very soft, buttery bread, made of flour, milk or water, eggs, salt, some sugar, yeast and lots of butter. It is usually eaten for breakfast or with afternoon tea. A baguette is only flour, water, salt, and yeast. The Book of Jin, a 7th-century chronicle of the Chinese Jin Dynasty, reports that when Emperor Hui (259-307) of Western Jin was told that his people were starving because there was no rice, he said, "Why don't they eat porridge with (ground) meat?", showing his unfitness. The Journey: Marie Antoinette by Antonia Fraser is a modern and thoroughly researched biography that is compelling reading, sometimes facts are far more interesting than fiction.

Poor marie and children they didn't deserve being murdered her daughter lived and told what happened to them all

4:20 Marie Antoinette infamously had her hands bound behind her back during her final journey, just like many of those sentenced to die in the guillotine, and to get up to the scaffold she had to walk up a fairly steep wooden staircase in full view of the crowd, lookjng straight at the towering instrument of her death. She is said to have ascended the steps quickly, her hands still trussed behind, and most likely that is how she happened to trip or stumble, getting one foot in the wrong place.

Tussaud biographer Kate Berridge stated that from 1793 until Marie's death in 1850, there's no record of Louis XVI or Marie Antoinette's heads being part of her exhibit. No mention of either head in the Tussaud wax exhibition catalogs, newspaper articles about the exhibition etc. Both heads first appeared in an 1865 Tussaud exhibit, when her two sons were running the business. It's possible that Marie left the molds behind in France (never to return) when she went to the UK, and somehow her sons obtained them years later. Possible but unlikely - Marie's husband remained in France with the business but was irresponsible and a poor businessman. He lost the waxworks business in Paris to creditors many years before Marie's death.

There is no Evidence that Marie Antoinette ever Said " Let Them Eat Cake " The Saying has Though been Sometimes Attributed to Marie Theresa of Spain 1638 to 1683. Theresa was the Queen of France from 1660 to 1683 Her Husband was King Louis XIV.

You didn’t show us Marie’s full facial cast?!?

Very interesting. My mother's side of our family are descended from Marie Antoinette's family line and curiously enough my father's line is from the Bourbon Kings which the King was descended from. I have a 1st cousin that bears a striking resemblance to Marie Antoinette. Its very sad how she was treated at the time. As a Princess I have never understood why her safety wasnt demanded by her family and let her and her children travel back to Austria. Very sad.

And the face? Hate clickbaits, I liked your channel

Is there some audio missing from the end of the video? I only had visuals for almost all of the last minute

The details drawn in the paintings🎨 are incredible .

Ps: madame tussauds didnt sneak to get the head. She was sentenced to death penalty because she had connection to the royal family. So they gave her options either to live as a prisoner and create death masks of important people or to be executed. She chose to create death masks and she had to endure the pain of handling the heads of her late friends. Then when the government was crumbling she managed to sneak out of france and lived in england and if i remember well she didnt return back to france like everyone else who were sentenced to death (nobles etc) and escaped france settling forever out of france

Some the pictures are not Marie Antoinette very mis leading . She did not buy furniture from abroad or Europe she had it made by Resiner for one .

There’s a movie called “The Affair of the Necklace,” with Hillary Swank, about the woman who conned the Cardinal into buying the diamond necklace by pretending she was Marie Antoinette . It’s really good!

Where is the cast of the head now?

The French Revolution was needlessly brutal. So heartbreaking 💔

Madame Marie Tussaud's first job was Marie's deathmask, aged 17. What a freaky job, especially for a kid that age! 😮 no, she didn't sneak in to do it - it was a normal thing to do pre-photography.

I ❤ this channel!!

One can clearly see conspiracy theories existed then too. Her majesty was a victim Love Marie!

Watch Lucy Worsely’s royal myths and secrets. It’s a more detailed documentary about Marie Antoinette.

I don't really understand why she was executed for living a queen's life. Every royal lives beyond the commoners. Doesn't make sense.

Why didn’t you show us the mask?

i always thought the affair of the necklace was a set up. marie was shown it but even she said it was to expensive and said no

A video about Marie Antoinette’s death mask that doesn’t show the death mask in the video,..ok

Wasnt her ultimately destroyed? How would the first pictures/thumbnail be possible unles rendered by paintings?

Fascinating. Truly. But if your going to make a video of Marie Antoinette’s death mask maybe SHOW THE DAMN MASK?!?

This woman was executed because her family spent too much money helping my country against the British.

so where iz de ead?

The music catches me off guard

Not any diff than the homeless, poor, suffering in the UK and the contrast of the King. WHY pay for rich people?

I really doubt the story that Madame Tussaud took plaster cast of her head while the gravediggers were lunching. Sounds ridiculous on it's face (pun). More likely, Tussaud used some other woman's head and claimed it was Marie's - simply to create a macabre showpiece for her to make money.

The lesson is even the slightest word of yours will be used against you in your bad days ..

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When I was 11 years old I saw the wax models of those severed heads from the French revolution in the chamber of horrors. Quite creepy.

The executioner's name was Sanson not Samson

What?! How did I never know Madame Tussaud plastered the head of Marie Antoinette??? That’s a massive oversight on my part having read up on all she’s done lol. 😅

Where's the Tussaud depiction of the head?

She was executed in a square called "Place de la Concorde". Today, the US Embassy in Paris is right next to that square.

The executioner would speak french, not spanish, and therefore not utter "Viva" but "Vive".

Madame Tussauds ' last name is phonetically pronounced "Tooo-sow", the "s" is silent in many french words and names . All over KZfaq there are poor descriptions, and bad pronunciations of words commonly know to the educated and the well informed. That no one edits and corrects these things is sad, and lazy

She was held in the Conciergerie. Not the concierge. and she was executed at the Place de la Revolution, not the Palace de La Revolution. And buried at the Basilica Saint Denis. not the Basilia Saint Dennis.

Read the book: Guillotine and the cross

Those who killed her themselves are long dead and it pleases.

So where’s the picture of her head? Much ado about nothing, this video

Until Netflix decides she was a black queen and made us waste a preciously hour of our live.

Why didn't we see the head????? 🙄😣😮‍💨

Marie never rub the French poverty in their faces. It was all propaganda. You must do a deeper research in the French history. You probably believe that Marie said the poor should eat cake. She was victim of French politics!

I'd say there's a whole bunch of big-time politicians, along with the wealthy people who own them, who would do well to reflect on what happens when The People have finally had enough.

Very sad story 😢

A blot on France’s history

That is not what I said. I was merely making the point that she was not to blame for the state of France's economy. France spent 1.3 BILLION LIvres (some say more) to help the Revolution. Then the new government did not pay it back. Someone said that they paid it back in WW1 and WW2. That was a little late don't you think? I quote James M. Volo, MA in Military History and Wars , American Military University (AMU) (Graduated 1997)4y " France's debt, aggravated by French involvement in the American Revolution, led Louis XVI to implement new taxation and to reduce privileges. In all the French spent 1.3 billion livres to support the Americans directly in addition to the money it spent fighting Britain on land and sea outside the U.S. In many ways the American Revolution became of multi-ocean war. In India, British troops gained control of several French outposts in 1778 and 1779. In the Peace of Paris (1783), Cuddalore was returned to Great Britain in exchange for Pondicherry and Mahé, two French territories that British forces had captured earlier in the war. During the next 50 years, Pondicherry changed hands between France and Britain with the regularity of their wars and peace treaties. The Indian territories under French administration were minuscule, especially in comparison to the British India. As a cost of participation in the American war, France accumulated over 1.0 billion livres of unrelieved debt. France gained little except that it weakened its main strategic enemy and gained a new, fast-growing ally that could become a welcome trading partner. France's help is considered a major, vital, and decisive contribution to the United States' victory against the British. However, the trade with America never materialized. Federalist New England, where most foreign trade originated, remained pro-British."

She was a German scapegoat.

She was ahead of her time 😮

Awhh my poor Queen Marie Antoinette!

Whats fascinating about her is that many women could easily be her. Married young, ignored by her husband, a queen...what do you expect.

She was an Austrian archduchess. not a princess.

You tell ordinary people that they are chosen rulers by God - and then The People get hungry …. And then when the people are hungry we see where the Power really lies - Power and royalty lies where the people “ think “ it does … titles do not give you Divine Right - The People do - always

If the local Catholic hierarchy possessed said necklace why did the peasants spare his head?

Marie Antoinette's natural hair color is strawberry blonde without her wig. But sadly,her beautiful natural hair color turned white.😢

Bring me the Head of Marie Antoinette! Oh ok you did thanks 😂

If you really look at the photo of the two heads side by side they are not the same on has bangs and the other does not. Just saying.

Barbarians, plain and simple.

Already mispronounced ... guillotine.....

Úplně jiná než na obrazech,hodně podobná své matce

These days she's come to be seen as a bit of a scapegoat for the incompetence of her husband. Many of the claims made of her were really done by others (e.g., "let them eat cake" was not said by her), or things she did were not as bad as is aimed today (e.g., the amount she spent on her garden, often claimed today to have been outrageous, was in fact the same amount typically dropped in one nights gambling losses by French aristocrats. And the poor children she adopted were he last action when awaiting death: she made sure tonarrqnge for them, find people who would take them to safety, arrange for their education, and etc.).

Did you just say "Saint Dennis"?

Opposite tastes? How did you come to this? He had a phimosis, that's all. I studied history at the Sorbone, I am French: I never ever read anything like that... Please correct your statement.

That death mask had Marie Antoinette looking like George Washington. Not a good look.

She stepped on Sanson's foot on purpose.

The thing is, France developed into a modern state and ended the famine after the royalty was brought down, and this is a fact.

Frivolity????

Let her eat cake ! 😂🪓🪓🪓

Composer George Gershwin's little tribute to Her Majesty was "Let 'em eat cake!" An incomparably creative brain!!

Ain't no telling whose head they showing. Probably some of their people who they wish beyond hope were those people. The people they desire to be but aren't. Just craziness. Those people are above and God brings them back to show, you do lie.

Marie Antoinette rather lost her head over France.

Please please please... before recording these voiceovers - words you're unfamiliar with - find how to pronounce them? Without stutterings and hesitations, the result would gain you extra cred. The French in the statement you made should not be "Viva" it should have been "Vive... " pronounced "Veeve".

Pity they did not do the same in England and help end the exploitation of the Irish.

I guess one can say that marie let down the people of france ad the prople of France let down matie

thats a parrot's beak

Expect the unexpected when things get unfolded during the course of a revolution. Besides the culprits many innocent commoners are also the victim of violence. I think Pakistan is at the initial stages of French revolution.

her naame, Marie is pronounced as in marry. It's similar to the way Mary is prounced.It's foolish to copy American pronunciation as it's invariably abysmal.

It's NOT pronounced gillotine it's pronounced geeatine. Gee uh teen. The ll is silent.

I’m related to her

The French should have been diligent because their kids got away n spread their crap all over America

Did this video just spent 5 minutes only to tell us that Madame Tussaud, the lady from the famous wax museum, stole Marie Antoinette's head for a brief moment and just put it back casually?!? WTF that's crazy

So many words about here daith mask, but not one picture of it. That seems stupid. Sorry.

I love the death masks! Partly because they make their famousness available to us. Also yes please share open casket person s.

very sloppy reading

Savages...

It was an injustice execution.

Vous dites que des mensonges !

Amateurish commentary with numerous mispronunciations 😮spoiling what could’ve been a good documentary on Marie Antoinette

Please learn the phonetic to pronounce correctly french words names and city.

Forse andando da jn bravo chirurgo estetico a rifarsi il naso non le succedeva quello che le è successo con un delizioso nasino all insu ' francesino campana fino a centanni

I'm mad I knew everything about the story. I literally only came on here to view the picture that you had on your video. Obviously clickbait. Goodbye😂😂