Much has been written and portrayed the marriage relationship of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Here are some historical facts about their life together
Born :.
Marie Antoinette Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna alias aka Josephe Jeanne Marie Antoinette of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria in Hofburg Palace
Louis XVI Louis-Auguste aka :. 23. Aug, 1754 in Versailles
Death
Marie Antoinette: Executed by the guillotine on October 16, 1793. Marie Antoinette was just a few short weeks to be 38 years old when she died
Louis XVI :. Executed by guillotine on January 21, 1793. On the eve of his death, Louis had a last farewell. dinner with Mary and their children
Age at Wedding:
Marie Antoinette was 14; Louis XVI was 15.
Wedding Date
The April 19, 1770 Marie-Antoinette and Louis-Auguste were married by proxy in Augustine Church in Vienna. Marie Antoinette went to France two days later. She crossed the border into France on 7 May 1770.
May 16, 1770, their French wedding took place at Versailles in the royal chapel.
her wedding dress was decorated with diamonds and pearls.
After a formal dinner and blessing from their beds by the Archbishop of Reims, Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste were escorted to their room. They consummate their marriage until seven years later, in August 1777, according to a letter she wrote to her mother on August 30, 1777.
Children
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI had four children:
- Marie Therese Charlotte: Born 19 Decmber 1778 in Versailles. She lived in exile after the death of his family. Marie married his cousin Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême in 1799. She died of pneumonia 19 October 1851 in Vienna, Austria. Marie Thérèse is buried at the Franciscan monastery Kostanjevica, Slovenia
- Louis Joseph Xavier François :. Born October 22, 1781. Died at the age of seven, June 4, 1789 consumption, which is known today as tuberculosis.
- Louis Charles aka Louis XVII: Born March 27, 1785. Died at the age of ten, June 8, 1795 all alone in prison. He had been beaten as a prisoner
- Sophie Beatrix :. Born in 1786, Sophie died as a child just before turning a year in 1787.
Residences
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI lived in Versailles in France. Marie has spent much time with her children in her Petit Trianon which was one of her husband's wedding gift
Professions :.
Marie Antoinette Queen of France. Marie Antoinette was also the Archduchess of Austria
Louis XVI: .. June 11, 1775, he was crowned King Louis XVI in Reims Cathedral
Quotes Wedding Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI:
PBS on Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste living separate lives. "... its full of hunting, eating, and introspection, his with the dance, nightlife, gambling and fashion "
Source: PBS.org
Marie Therese Charlotte Marie Antoinette after the death of Louis XVI." She was no longer any hope left in his heart or distinction between life and death "
Experts.about.com
PBS about Louis XVI:" Louis XVI French king was the first in two hundred years of not having a royal mistress . "
Source: PBS.org
Explanation of Louis role and the marriage of Mary played in the French Revolution:" marriage for some seven years is not the marriage can not be overstated as a major cause of defamation of the Queen's character. long period of Louis in the consummation of marriage, not only became a serious concern for those interested in the continuity of the dynasty, but still set the image of the king and his wife in the public mind. Watched constantly in the castle, the couple became the target of all kinds of bawdy humor in and later, without the court ... the same fidelity, indeed the uxoriousness [submissiveness] Louis XVI that the cuckold and clumsy in fact the public mind, Marie Antoinette placed in an even more vulnerable position. Lacking manhood, he was considered unable to control his wife. Subject to his empire, his rule has been corrupted by the feminine power "
Source: ... historian summer 1993. V55 P709 n4 (16)
Books Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI:
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Lady Antonia Fraser
Marie Antoinette
by Sofia Coppola
The Knight of Maison-Rouge
by Alexandre Dumas
films About Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI:
Marie Antoinette (1938)
with Norma Shearer and Tyrone Power
Marie Antoinette (06 )