![]() ![]() Marie Antoinette’s exploits at the glittering court of Versailles, coupled with her dramatic fall from grace during the French Revolution, have inspired numerous silver screen adaptations, from a 1938 film starring Norma Shearer to Sofia Coppola’s sympathetic 2006 biopic. ![]() … they had sent her back to Austria or put her in a convent,” she would be far less famous.Įmilia Schüle as Marie Antoinette and Louis Cunningham as Louis XVIĬaroline Dubois - Capa Drama / Banijay Studios France / Les Gens / Canal+ “It seems like an almost gratuitous action on the part of the revolutionaries. She’s just the wife of the king of France, and yet she’s put to death,” says Catriona Seth, a historian and literary scholar at the University of Oxford. Depicted alternatively as a materialistic, self-absorbed young woman who ignored her people’s suffering a more benign figure who was simply out of her depth and a feminist scapegoat for men’s mistakes, she continues to captivate in large part because of her tragic fate. ![]() ![]() Approximately 230 years after Marie Antoinette’s execution by guillotine at the hands of revolutionaries, the French queen remains one of history’s most recognizable royals. ![]()
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