Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial? - Carolyn Harris
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Date: 2023-06-20
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Justine
This just reminds me of Imelda Marcos but she's worse. She openly admits to being a wasteful first lady and admits to being the reason of the decisions of his husband (a dictator of a president. She's not even a queen yet acts like one. The biggest problem is that the people see them as a power couple in politics. They'd deny the atrocious crimes of the Marcoses and call them the best leaders. She's still alive today with her son being the new president who plans to bury his father in the National Heroes Cemetery. It sickens and disgusts me how people are easily fooled with corrupt politicians. Sad.
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This just reminds me of Imelda Marcos but she's worse. She openly admits to being a wasteful first lady and admits to being the reason of the decisions of his husband (a dictator of a president. She's not even a queen yet acts like one. The biggest problem is that the people see them as a power couple in politics. They'd deny the atrocious crimes of the Marcoses and call them the best leaders. She's still alive today with her son being the new president who plans to bury his father in the National Heroes Cemetery. It sickens and disgusts me how people are easily fooled with corrupt politicians. Sad.
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KTChamberlain
Whether you like her or hate her, can we all agree that Marie Antoinette is overrated? I mean as a history buff, she strikes me as someone who barely had any agency to speak of, especially when compared to women like Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, and Joan of Arc, and that's just to name a few.
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Whether you like her or hate her, can we all agree that Marie Antoinette is overrated? I mean as a history buff, she strikes me as someone who barely had any agency to speak of, especially when compared to women like Cleopatra, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, and Joan of Arc, and that's just to name a few.
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Jeffrey
I think Marie should ve just been confined to house arrest. The revolutionary government was just too quick to judge her guilty.
PS I m hold out for History vs
Richard Lionheart
Alexander the Great
Pericles
Leonidas
Oda Nobunaga
Andrew Carnegie
John D Rockefeller
Walt Disney
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I think Marie should ve just been confined to house arrest. The revolutionary government was just too quick to judge her guilty.
PS I m hold out for History vs
Richard Lionheart
Alexander the Great
Pericles
Leonidas
Oda Nobunaga
Andrew Carnegie
John D Rockefeller
Walt Disney
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Aidan
Always love to see new videos in this series. I d love to see a video on Margaret of Anjou, Lancastrian queen of England during the Wars of the Roses, whose reputation and image is still rather mixed even though more recent historians have started to re-examine her role and character.
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Always love to see new videos in this series. I d love to see a video on Margaret of Anjou, Lancastrian queen of England during the Wars of the Roses, whose reputation and image is still rather mixed even though more recent historians have started to re-examine her role and character.
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Nathan
In my opinion, her actions of high spending were no worse than the rest of the French nobility. Unlike other cases in this series where most were remembered more positively than they should, Marie seems to be one the uncommon cases where history gave her more hate than she deserved.
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In my opinion, her actions of high spending were no worse than the rest of the French nobility. Unlike other cases in this series where most were remembered more positively than they should, Marie seems to be one the uncommon cases where history gave her more hate than she deserved.
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Xygenjji
I think Maria Antonette, was a good person who really tried to help her people, and I think there are some accounts that she was a scapegoat and tried to use make her some spoiled, extravagant queen. In my opinion she was a very good mother devoted wife and was kind misunderstood
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I think Maria Antonette, was a good person who really tried to help her people, and I think there are some accounts that she was a scapegoat and tried to use make her some spoiled, extravagant queen. In my opinion she was a very good mother devoted wife and was kind misunderstood
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Jo o
Whatever amount of guilt the queen may have had, it bears no comparison to that of her husband, who was the de factor ruler of France and sanctioned her expedintures and a lot more besides. He ran the country, after all. Whereas she was just a pawn in the game of Houses.
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Whatever amount of guilt the queen may have had, it bears no comparison to that of her husband, who was the de factor ruler of France and sanctioned her expedintures and a lot more besides. He ran the country, after all. Whereas she was just a pawn in the game of Houses.
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Rahi
I can t believe after so much time, I started hearing a lot about how Marie was much more simpler and nicer than people portrayed her.
It really does showcase how we can all follow a fabricated narrative when enough people tell it.
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I can t believe after so much time, I started hearing a lot about how Marie was much more simpler and nicer than people portrayed her.
It really does showcase how we can all follow a fabricated narrative when enough people tell it.
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Aureus
There s actually a fantastic movie about Marie Antoinette that came out in 2006 that was directed by Sofia Coppola. While some of the historical facts are slightly stretched, I think it really captures who Antoinette REALLY was.
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There s actually a fantastic movie about Marie Antoinette that came out in 2006 that was directed by Sofia Coppola. While some of the historical facts are slightly stretched, I think it really captures who Antoinette REALLY was.
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Donald
The cake in her famous saying what NOT a dessert cake, cake was what the dough lining of bread ovens was called so it was basically burnt dough, not good enough to be thought of as bread, but a leftover of the baking process.
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The cake in her famous saying what NOT a dessert cake, cake was what the dough lining of bread ovens was called so it was basically burnt dough, not good enough to be thought of as bread, but a leftover of the baking process.
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Vlad
Keep examening another french personality in this video: Napoleon Bonaparte, the general who lived during the french revolution and napoleonic wars and became emperor for expanded the french revolution legacy in all Europe
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Keep examening another french personality in this video: Napoleon Bonaparte, the general who lived during the french revolution and napoleonic wars and became emperor for expanded the french revolution legacy in all Europe
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frankydman
Vlad the Impaler would be a good topic for this series
Throughout the world he s remembered as a bloodthirsty, cruel tyrant, and the inspiration for Dracula, but in his native Romania he s a highly regarded hero
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Vlad the Impaler would be a good topic for this series
Throughout the world he s remembered as a bloodthirsty, cruel tyrant, and the inspiration for Dracula, but in his native Romania he s a highly regarded hero
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Sublime
Here are some suggestions: Domitian, Vlad the impaler, Justinian, Karl Marx, Cromwell, George bush(the younger, Aurangzeb, Constantine, boris Yeltsin, Franco Ferdinand, Diocletian and abdulhamid the second.
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Here are some suggestions: Domitian, Vlad the impaler, Justinian, Karl Marx, Cromwell, George bush(the younger, Aurangzeb, Constantine, boris Yeltsin, Franco Ferdinand, Diocletian and abdulhamid the second.
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2020
It s kind of incredible how after centuries of oppression, mismanagement, and wasteful spending perpetrated by the french nobility they tried to pin it all on the young foreign wife of the king.
So low.
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It s kind of incredible how after centuries of oppression, mismanagement, and wasteful spending perpetrated by the french nobility they tried to pin it all on the young foreign wife of the king.
So low.
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godzillavkk
Just another example of ultra femininity being demonized and women being blamed for everything. I think she should have been sentenced to either exile or community service. Execution, was too harsh.
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Just another example of ultra femininity being demonized and women being blamed for everything. I think she should have been sentenced to either exile or community service. Execution, was too harsh.
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Kevin
Qin Shi Huang, Alexander the Great, Shaka Zulu, Vlad Tepes, Queen Victoria, John Calvin and Oliver Cromwell are all polarising figures that ought to be put on trial to really analyse their character.
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Qin Shi Huang, Alexander the Great, Shaka Zulu, Vlad Tepes, Queen Victoria, John Calvin and Oliver Cromwell are all polarising figures that ought to be put on trial to really analyse their character.
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HIFLY
Hmm so they spent billions on a war to the other side of the world while the people were suffering and thats seen as a bad thing? The French should have been more empathetic to a nation being invaded
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Hmm so they spent billions on a war to the other side of the world while the people were suffering and thats seen as a bad thing? The French should have been more empathetic to a nation being invaded
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Marley
Honestly, it is weird that Marie Antoinette is considered such a figure for that corrupt time period, when women didn't really have much power or education back then? Meanwhile, Louie was the king.
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Honestly, it is weird that Marie Antoinette is considered such a figure for that corrupt time period, when women didn't really have much power or education back then? Meanwhile, Louie was the king.
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Martijn
Being a symbol is a heavy burden, one can end up being seen as a savior or a demon depending on things out of one's control.
The fact we are still discussing her faith say's it all.
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Being a symbol is a heavy burden, one can end up being seen as a savior or a demon depending on things out of one's control.
The fact we are still discussing her faith say's it all.
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