Marie Antoinette

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In addition to Marie Antoinette's lackluster French, peppered haphazardly with German phrases, her assimilation was made difficult by the strict etiquette of courtly life at Versailles.

For the scene after Marie’s child has died, I wore a pale-blue dress and I suggested that I wear a red ribbon around my waist that made it look like I’d been cut in half. Rachel Desmarest, Marie Antoinette casting assistant: There wasn’t a single handsome young actor in Europe we didn’t interact with for that part. Everyone was telling me, “Okay, Odile, in this scene you can go crazy, put in flowers and birds and whatever you want.

As a historian of early modern France and a professor at Southern Methodist University, I have taken students to Paris on a study abroad program for more than twenty summers.

The cult icon once struck Norman Mailer in the head with a hammer and was fired from a London theatre production over his “corrosive attitude”. In the morning I’d be a 14-year-old arriving at the palace, and then in the afternoon I’d be grieving the death of my child.

She was accused of multiple acts of sexual deviancy, from holding orgies in the gardens of Versailles to engaging in closeted lesbian romances. Dornan: It takes a lot of shots for me to start dancing, and I remember dancing quite a lot, if that tells you anything.

She was sad about leaving [her pug] Mops behind [in Vienna] but she was going to be the Queen of France.

was the queen of France during the turbulent final years of the Ancien Régime and the subsequent French Revolution (1789-1799).