Shortly after her arrival in Versailles in 1770 to marry the future king of France (at the age of 14), and especially upon assuming the throne in 1774, Marie Antoinette set about claiming the ...
As T&C observed a few months ago, 2023 really is turning out to be the year of Marie Antoinette (though is it ever not?). Perhaps you've been swept up by all the hype, too. Maybe you binged the new ...
A series of public missteps and private heartbreak have left the queen reeling from grief, in the next episode of Marie Antoinette on PBS. Antoinette’s (Emilia Schüle) desire to punish Cardinal Rohan ...
"... we can see a relationship that is really sincere." This is an Inside Science story. It was late 1791 or early 1792, in a palace on the right bank of the Seine ...
Above: Marie Antoinette scandalously abandoned traditional regalia for newfangled “fashion”—as seen in this fateful 1783 portrait by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, one of her style influencers. Between the ...
A new television series portrays the French queen as a feminist, drawing criticism from historians Based on a True Story Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “Marie Antoinette,” a ...
The first season of the PBS series Marie Antoinnette was more about Antoinette finding her way in the French royal court as she’s paired up with Louis XV’s oldest son, who wasn’t exactly Antoinette’s ...