Marie Antoinette Research Paper

Most of us have once thought about what legacy we want to leave behind when we inevitably leave this world. We want to be remembered and we want to have our names known years from now. In the case of Marie Antoinette, her legacy has lived well beyond her time. Though, some believe she was a horrendous person, others seem to think she was a respectible queen, and overall a good person. She is famously known for the ignorant comment said to be made when she was informed that the peasants had no bread, "Let them eat cake". By many she is perceived in a negative manner, just as she was when she lived. Marie has been the subject of much historical debate over the hundreds of years since her death. The debate of whether she was a despised or respected as queen has been and is likely to be argued for centuries.
During most of Marie's life gossip and scandals seemed to follow her everywhere she went. Most of us have been in Marie's position of having a weight on our shoulders, having gossip surround us. Her so called scandalous behavior is argued by many to be one of the reasons that the French had a growing dislike for her. The hostility towards her went as far as many saying she was deserving of death. "In contrast to the tender mother, how easy it was to suggest that this debauched creature should perish ignominously on the scaffold." (page 426). This is in a way saying that Marie, a corrupt creature, should die in a humiliating