Marie Antoinette's Influence On Fashion
Marie Antoinette, was she the careless women that said to the citizens of her country “Let them eat cake?” While they were starving to death in the streets, or was she a woman trying her best to keep her life in order during a great crisis? Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution, and her entire life was being changed in front of her eyes. She had an extremely posh lifestyle, one full of the amenities that you would expect a Queen to have, and she was desperate to maintain that way of life, and she would protect her beliefs to the very end.
Marie Antoinette enjoyed luxuries that were considered rare even among other Queens. She even set the basis for fashion during her rule, she popularized dress that mimicked …show more content…
Many of the other nobility wanted to be like her, she was the superstar of the time. Chocolates and flowers were Marie’s most enjoyed extravagances, she spent quite a bit of her time in her personal flower garden tending to her plants (“Marie Antoinette”). Her garden was her most prized possession that she could not live without. But that wasn’t the extent of her wealth, she had a model farm built on the palace grounds so that she could dress up as milkmaids and shepherdesses with her friends (“Marie Antoinette”). She spent her time indulging in her expensive tastes that extended from flower patterned drapery to dressing up as a milkmaid, but she still made time for her children. She even adopted multiple children during her time as queen, including three daughters of an Usher and his wife who had recently passed (McGasko, Joe). Marie was an extremely loving mother that cared …show more content…
Her very own people were turning on her and she had nowhere to turn to. Her own mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, had taught her that there should only be one true ruler of a country (“Marie Antoinette”). All of these factors lead her to be a strong absolutist that despised the lower classer trying to take away her power. She even became known as “Madame Veto”, because she vetoed a bill that would cause the aristocracy to lose power (“Marie Antoinette”). Marie would have to fight a war in order to prevent her way of life from crumbling before
Marie Antoinette enjoyed luxuries that were considered rare even among other Queens. She even set the basis for fashion during her rule, she popularized dress that mimicked …show more content…
Many of the other nobility wanted to be like her, she was the superstar of the time. Chocolates and flowers were Marie’s most enjoyed extravagances, she spent quite a bit of her time in her personal flower garden tending to her plants (“Marie Antoinette”). Her garden was her most prized possession that she could not live without. But that wasn’t the extent of her wealth, she had a model farm built on the palace grounds so that she could dress up as milkmaids and shepherdesses with her friends (“Marie Antoinette”). She spent her time indulging in her expensive tastes that extended from flower patterned drapery to dressing up as a milkmaid, but she still made time for her children. She even adopted multiple children during her time as queen, including three daughters of an Usher and his wife who had recently passed (McGasko, Joe). Marie was an extremely loving mother that cared …show more content…
Her very own people were turning on her and she had nowhere to turn to. Her own mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, had taught her that there should only be one true ruler of a country (“Marie Antoinette”). All of these factors lead her to be a strong absolutist that despised the lower classer trying to take away her power. She even became known as “Madame Veto”, because she vetoed a bill that would cause the aristocracy to lose power (“Marie Antoinette”). Marie would have to fight a war in order to prevent her way of life from crumbling before