Friday, February 29, 2008
Marie Antoinette
For some reason I have always really liked Marie Antoinette, even though she was a selfish brat of a queen. I am sitting by my window of my apartment and I have this book on Marie Antoinette that I use to prop up the window(because I have a fabulous window that does not hold its self up).Her real name is actually Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen(Wow.) and obvious she is notorious for leaving this world at the guillotine. My mother is French; and she speaks broken Canadian French because she lived on the border of Canada and Maine for nineteen years. When I was little and being greedy or not sharing, she tell me I best be careful before I go out like French Queen Marie Antoinette. I do not think that Marie Antoinette was just greedy, I think she just had a spending problem. She loved spending money on everything, private villages, clothes, furniture, and anything luxurious and expensive. I was reading about her in that book by my window, and it was talking about how Louis Auguste and Marie were not all to blame for being terrible leaders, just that they were not educated properly in comparison to other royalty. Honestly, I do not really like Marie Antoinette because she was royalty and had a lot of money, I just think she was very stylish for that time period and has interesting portraits.
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Hey! Sorry, I just saw that comment you left me. I'm doing pretty good; college is raping me, but it's all okay. :) So, anyway, about Marie Antoinette... I actually don't know much about her. I never saw the movie (not that that would give me any truth) and I have never read any books about her. From hearing what you had to say about her, I kind of feel sorry for her. That's one reason why I would never want to be royal. I'd run the risk of being like that.
Your writing reminds me of something I'd find in a really couture fashion magazine. I don't know why. I think it's just the way you describe things, but it's really lovely.
And about Marie Antoinette: I get the same way about people! I just see historical figures (most of mine that I like come from between the 50s and 70s) and get hooked on their styles. Anyhoo, irrelevant, but I love the name Antoinette.
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