Marie Antoinette Biography

Was Marie Antoinette ready to be Marie Antoinette Queen of France?

Marie Antoinette Biography all says that Marie Antoinette was too young to be Marie Antoinette Queen of France at the age of nineteen when she became Marie Antoinette Queen of France. Marie Antoinette was still very young and innocent. Marie Antoinette was never taught to rule a country - she was very ill equipped to be Marie Antoinette Queen of France.

Did the French and peasants like Marie Antoinette?

The French and peasants liked Marie Antoinette at first as Marie Antoinette supported charities, helped children in school and allowed the people to roam the royal lands. Whenever peasants were accidentally trampled or shot during Louis' hunting trips, Marie Antoinette always stopped to help nurse the injured. Marie Antoinette was very charitable and kind. Marie Antoinette was also generous with her servants at her lavish palace of Versailles.

However, the corrupted and highly judgemental nobles in France resented Marie Antoinette from the beginning.

How many servants did Marie Antoinette have?

Marie Antoinette led a lavish life at her palace of Versailles. Marie Antoinette had about nine hundred servants attending to her.

Marie Antoinette and her children

Marie Antoinette wasn't taken seriously until she had a son, after eleven years as queen. Then Marie Antoinette accepted responsibility by reading more, forcing her weak husband (whose main interest was designing new locks and other odd repair jobs around the palace) to stand up to corrupt ministers, often confronting them herself. When peasants, furious about their terrible living conditions, mobbed the palace, Marie Antoinette faced them with such bravery that some lowered their guns. As massacres began, Marie Antoinette endlessly plotted escape (always including her children in the plan). But in a humiliating trial, Marie Antoinette was charged with absurd offenses and condemned to death.