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The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette
July 20th, 2009
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“Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat.”Interior Design
Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793. She has been romanticized as the martyred queen, admired as the personification of eighteenth-century French royal style, and vilified as the Austrian whose frivolous extravagance and foreign sympathies fired the French Revolution.
This book turns aside from the official portraits and great historical events to rediscover the private places and objects that reflect Marie Antoinette’s personality and reveal her more directly to our modern gaze. Beautifully photographed by François Halard, the rooms and buildings she inhabited are shown here in fascinating detail, from the distinctive fabrics and furnishings to the queen’s favorite objectsan amber curiosity, a Chinese lacquer gift from her mother, a porcelain bowl. 123 illustrations, 108 in color.
About the Author
Marie-France Boyer is a freelance journalist and the Paris Editor of The World of Interiors magazine. François Halard contributes to many magazines, including The World of Interiors, Décoration Internationale, Vogue, and House & Garden.
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Marie Antoinette Portrait
January 27th, 2007
Marie Antoinette Portrait
Question: THIS IS A SUPER IMPORTANT QUESTION! Marie Antoinette help!?
I’m doing a project on her. I have to make a scrapbook that would have been “hers” with things from her life. SO far im putting in family tree and a flower from a painting and a self portrait and a piece of silk from her dress. i want to put in a banquet or party or some kind of invintation that she might have gotten(some of this can be fiction,.”.i.e. a flower that Louis XIV gave her”…who knows if he really gave her a flower?) i need to know. so maybe if u could find out any friends that she had or some parties that she might of gone to…something similar. also, if you have any other ideas of what i could put in this scrapbook would be really great. ALL IS APPRECIATED FOR THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO HELP ME GET AN A AND THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU THAT HELPED!!! 10 points for best answer….this needs to b turned in soon so if you could hurry it up ASAP>>>That’d b great. thanks everyone!!
Answer: She loved to live the 'simple life' at her palace at the Petit Trianon, where she would dress up and pretend to be a shepherdess, so maybe something to do with that? Perhaps a shepherdess's crook or something? or maybe a woolly lamb?
And perhaps some pictures of her children, of whom she was very fond?
one of her closes friends was the Princess de Lambelle, so she might have had an invatation to a party from her. Also of course there was her friend Axel Fersen, the Swedish nobleman who may have been her lover, perhaps you could have something to do with him?
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