Marie Antoinette Information

Archive for February, 2007

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French Revolution Guillotine

Question: How sharp is a guillotine?

During the french revolution many lost there heads under the guillotine, but my question is, ive heard the executioner would always sit at the side of the contraption with a knife, in case the blade wasn’t able to do its job properly, that leads me to believe that the blade was quite blunt and not razor sharp, as in as sharp as a gillette razor, was this the case.

Answer: Unfortunately there will be no alive that can tell you as they all had their heads chopped off.but its true what you have read so you must draw your own conclusions

Guillotine Working Replica

French Revolution Peasants

Question: HELP PLEASE!!! i need help finding a specific picture from the french revolution?

i need to find this picture for a project. its of a peasant women during the french revolution. she has her arms crossed looks angry and looking off in another direction. does anyone know what im talking about and can anyone find it for me??

Answer: Jacques Louis David was more or less the official photographer of the French Revolution:

-"Oath of the Tennis Court" (1791)

http://www.jacqueslouisdavid.org/

-"Death of Marat" (1793)

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/neocl_dav_marat.html

-"The Coronation of Napoleon" (1805)

http://www.abcgallery.com/D/david/david10.html

Eugene Delacroix also produced some blockbusters:
"Liberty leading the People"

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/delacroix/liberte/

The Peasants of the French Revolution

French Revolution Religion

Question: What does this political cartoon from the time of the French Revolution depict?

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/searchimages/240.jpg

It’s title is “The Radical’s Arms. (No God! No Religion! No king! No Constitution!)”

Answer: Looking at the man and woman whooping it up in front of the guillotine conveniently equipped with nooses, it would appear that the cartoonist believed the dignity of humankind was diminished because of the French Revolution.

(Noting the empty crown in front of the guillotine, I think we can say safely that the living figures are not supposed to be Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.)

Coldplay Violet Hill Death & Violence in Religion

Marie Antoinette Corset

Question: Where can I buy a corset for a victorian party?

My friend is having an all out Victiorian party. So we are both hostin and also wearing matching dresses. Its all out so I need to wear a corset. I know the way they did it was bad for your health I’m not going to make it THAT tight but just something to add a little bit of inching.

I do not need a 15 hundred dolar antique. I just ned a basic corset thatll also add inching.

What color shoes go with a marie antoinette blue, and daisy pink victorian dress? I have these blue ones and pink. Or is there another color thats better?

Answer: I make steel spring corsets and underbusts. http://glamourbunny.etsy.com

Marie Antoinette [Too Young]

Marie Antoinette Blue Diamond

Question: whatever happened to marie antoinette’s engagement ring?

i was just wondering if anyone knows what happened to marie antoinette’s blue diamond engagement ring. i heard it was sold at an auction to a european buyer in 1967. does anyone know who bought it and where it is today?

Answer: She was married by proxy, in the month of April, 1770. A formal ceremony was performed in Vienna and her brother stood in for the absent Dauphin. This was a common practice between members of royalty being married off to a foreign court. Marriage by proxy meant that Marie Antoinette could travel to her new husbands country, with all the hallmarks and privileges of her new rank. She arrived at Versailles with this heart shaped blue diamond ring of almost 5.50 carats. Considered her private property, this ring never went with the Crown Jewels and therefore was not stolen during the revolution. Not long before her execution, she was able to pass this ring to a trusted confidant who left the country with it. She had hoped to be reunited one day with the numerous jewels she sent off for safe keeping in other countries, but it was not to be. In 1967 her Blue Diamond was sold to a private European buyer and is not on public display.