Where is the best place to go in France to learn about Marie Antoinette?
I’ve chosen to do Marie Antoinette as my History Coursework subject, and I’d like to learn more about her by visiting France. Are there any specific locations that would be best? Museums? Landmarks?
Try Versailles:
http://en.chateauversailles.fr/history/court-people/louis-xiv-time/louis-xiv-
Jamestown
They do amazing jerk chicken.
a brothel of course
Up her skirt. I mean, everyone else has gotten up in it, why shouldn’t you?
Go to Versailles, the massive palace where she lived for most of her married life with Louis XVI. At Versailles you can go to the Petit Trianon, which is the small palace where she prefered to spend most of her time, and see the amazing fake rustic village that was built for her so that she could play at being a milkmaid and leading the ‘simple life’. Versailles is only a few miles from Paris, you can get there easily on the train, or there are many coach excursions from Paris.
In Paris itself you could go to the excellent Musee Carnavalet, which has many interesting exhibits to do with her period of history, the French Revolution etc. There are several paintings of Marie Antoinette and a bust among other things.
The Tuileries palace, where the French royal family were taken to live after the Revolution started, is no longer there, but you could walk around the delightful park, the jardin de Tuileries, which is still there, and easily imagine Marie Antoinette walking in the gardens.
The Concierge, the grim prison where Marie Antoinette spent the last sad period of her life, is still there, I am not certain if it is possible to go inside it, but you can certainly look at it from the outside.
Her mother sent her many letters and you can learn alot form the correspondence.
She lost her head but she was not a bad person nor mean.
She was an innn9ocent child manipulated by elders.