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That moment when your teenaged grandson and his new wife don’t have sex on their wedding night.

Marie Antoinette (2006)

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Non monsieur, plus qu’une grande Reine, elle fut un grand Roi -Louis XIV

I’m often asked if there is a Queen who I love other than Marie Antoinette, and the answer will always be Anne of Austria. A woman who became queen at only 14 who defied the expectations several times. A woman who put the well-being of her sons and of the nation before her own. Happy birthday Anne of Austria

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Maria Elisabeth of Austria, 13 August 1743 – 22 September 1808

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Happy birthday to *both* of Marie Antoinette’s favorites

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Come, my poor Berry, you are here at full liberty, you have elbow room; talk, shout, make a great deal of noise, break, smash everything. I give you 'carte blanche'.

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Louis-Auguste de France, titled the duc de Berry at birth and later known as Louis XVI, was born on August 23rd, 1754 at the palace of Versailles. [image: A portrait of Louis XVI, then the duc de Berry, in 1760 by Jean Martial Fredou.

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“The Queen is a princess of exemplary virtue whose only care is to do her duty to God, the King and her children. She is very gracious and polite and expresses herself very easily in French, German and Polish … She likes to read. Always in agreement with the King’s ideas, she takes no part in the government. She likes neither splendor nor ceremony.” - Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz (c.1732) [Bernier, Louis XV] 

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A portrait of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. 18th century. [source: Artcurial, One Hundred Portraits for a Century auction]

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A portrait of Marie Antoinette by Franz Stöber (1760-1834), undated. [credit: Aguettes ‘Old Master’ auction, 28 June 2022.]

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Decided to do a Hunger games french rev style. Here is how it went.

Congrats Adrienne!! I am also about to do another round for a friend.

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@apho-sappho

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Oh and more paintings of Louis I love you man </3

At the period of his grandfather’s death, Louis XVI. began to be exceedingly attached to the Queen. The first period of so deep a mourning not admitting of indulgence in the diversion of hunting, he proposed to her walks in the gardens of Choisy; they went out like husband and wife, the young King giving his arm to the Queen, and accompanied by a very small suite.

-Madame Campan, Memoirs

I am convinced that if I had to choose a husband from the three brothers, I would still prefer the one heaven gave me: his character is steadfast and although he is awkward, he is as attentive and as kind as possible to me.

-Marie Antoinette to her mother Empress Maria Theresa

In the understandable grief that overwhelms me, which I share with all of the realm, I nevertheless have duties I must fulfill. I am the king and this one word covers a great many obligations, but I am only twenty years old. I do not think that I have acquired all the knowledge necessary for my position.

-Louis XVI

I know that I am charged with weakness and irresolution, but no one has ever been in a position like mine. There was one opportunity that I missed, I know - July 14: ... then I ought to have got away. There has never been another since

-Louis XVI

I commend my children to my wife; I have never doubted her maternal tenderness for them. I enjoin her above all to make them good Christians and honest individuals; to make them view the grandeurs of this world (if they are condemned to experience them) as very dangerous and transient goods, and turn their attention towards the one solid and enduring glory, eternity

-Louis XVI

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

- Louis XVI

It may be considered politically unwise, but it seems to me to be the general wish and I want to be loved

-Louis XVI

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At the period of his grandfather’s death, Louis XVI. began to be exceedingly attached to the Queen. The first period of so deep a mourning not admitting of indulgence in the diversion of hunting, he proposed to her walks in the gardens of Choisy; they went out like husband and wife, the young King giving his arm to the Queen, and accompanied by a very small suite.

-Madame Campan, Memoirs

I am convinced that if I had to choose a husband from the three brothers, I would still prefer the one heaven gave me: his character is steadfast and although he is awkward, he is as attentive and as kind as possible to me.

-Marie Antoinette to her mother Empress Maria Theresa

In the understandable grief that overwhelms me, which I share with all of the realm, I nevertheless have duties I must fulfill. I am the king and this one word covers a great many obligations, but I am only twenty years old. I do not think that I have acquired all the knowledge necessary for my position.

-Louis XVI

I know that I am charged with weakness and irresolution, but no one has ever been in a position like mine. There was one opportunity that I missed, I know - July 14: ... then I ought to have got away. There has never been another since

-Louis XVI

I commend my children to my wife; I have never doubted her maternal tenderness for them. I enjoin her above all to make them good Christians and honest individuals; to make them view the grandeurs of this world (if they are condemned to experience them) as very dangerous and transient goods, and turn their attention towards the one solid and enduring glory, eternity

-Louis XVI

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

- Louis XVI

It may be considered politically unwise, but it seems to me to be the general wish and I want to be loved

-Louis XVI

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You are right; it would be giving her a death blow. It is better that I deprive myself of this sweet consolation and let her live in hope for a few minutes more.

–Louis XVI, on the morning of 21 January 1793

Louis XVI had promised to visit his family on the morning of his execution, before leaving for the scaffold. On the advice of the Abbe de Firmont, Louis decided not to see his family, particularly because of his wife, whom Firmont believed would “not survive” another parting.

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… Give [my wedding ring] to the queen; tell her that I part from it with pain and only at the last moment.

–Louis XVI to his valet Jean-Baptiste Cléry, the morning of his execution.

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“At a quarter to seven, in the palace of Versailles, Marie Josèphe gave birth to a boy. The King, who was hunting at Choisy, hurried to see this second surviving grandson, and was pleased to find him bigger and plumper than Pépa’s [Marie Josèphe’s] previous children. He decided that the boy should have the honorary title of Duc de Berry, and by this name he would be known until, in boyhood, he came to be christened publicly. Meanwhile he was baptized privately…invested with the blue sash of the Order of the Holy Spirit and carried to his own apartment by Madame de Marsan [his governess]. When darkness fell a firework display was given, for which the King lit the fuse.”

— 23 August 1754 Vincent Cronin, Louis and Antoinette

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“‘In a conversation she had with this monarch on the 4th of this month,’ Mercy writes on June 17, 1779, ‘he spoke to his august consort in an infinitely cordial and tender manner, saying amongst other things that he loved her with all his heart and that he could swear to her he had never had the least feeling or sentiment for any woman, but for her alone.’ Throughout his whole life Louis XVI remained true to this one devotion, and never in that hot-bed of scandal at Versailles or in the underworld of Paris where later every other conceivable accusation was hurled against him, did the tongue of calumny dare to impugn his absolute fidelity to Marie Antoinette.”

— Nesta Webster, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette: Before the Revolution