Marie Antoinette Downfall
August 27th, 2007
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Marie Antoinette Downfall
Question: marie Antoinette…any info about her absolutist viewpoint and her outrageous…?
spending; how did it contribute/cause the revolution? how it was solely her fault for the downfall and her and her husband being executed?
please help! thank you!!!
Answer: I don't know anything about her absolutist veiws but being on the thorn would most likely mean she would not want to lose that. Sharing power with common people would have been an insane idea.
The French did not like Marie Ant., she was Austrian and not French. They didn't like that France had made an alliance with Austria by the two marrying. Her affairs were also very public with men and women, even though every one was cheating on/with someone. Simply due to the fact that they hated her, her sexual ways were worse than anyone who else. Also when she appeared in courts, they didn't like her mannerism. I mean, they really picked her apart!!
What got the best of her were rumors. When peasants say that she was told that French men, women and children were starving in the county side and she is quoted as saying, "Let them eat cake." Cake in those days was the batter that laced the oven while bread baked. It is a very rude thing to say. It was enough to push people over the edge and have them hunt her down, and they were starving while Marie Ant. was a plump woman. There is no proof that she said that, it just added fuel to the fire.
It wasn't just Marie Ant. who spending was out of control. Louie did he own fair share. If you ever get the chance to visit Versailles, go! It's very interesting! Louie could have saved a lot of money staying in Paris and living at the Louvre, but he was afraid after an incident that happened when he was a kid. The fact that France had no money and their peasants were taxed to the max and there wasn't any food is the reason the peasants revolt. To the French it was all her fault. But it was the ruthless spending of the French Royals over the years that brought the breaking point leading to the French Revolution. OH! i also forgot to mention that were was a drought, wheat crop was a very poor that year.Hopefully the site below is helpful. It is Mar. Ant. + absolutism
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