Marie Antoinette

Written August 8, 2008

I just got done reading a bio on Marie Antoinette, and I gotta say, that women was not a good person at all! That's not so say that she deserved the hacking off of her head, but read through that part of the book if you want to have vomit come up in your mouth.
Meanwhile, all those people of the revolution where in France were just completely crazy! Maybe that is what happens after you are starving for long enough...who knows. Anyway, I think it is pretty safe to say that Marie Antoinette had no morals, was completely selfish, and totally stupid. Apparently, she couldn't even spell her own name when she went to sign her marriage contract, and her handwriting was so bad she couldn't write without leaving a huge ink blot. Now, in her defense, they didn't have spell check back then, which I need, but not for my own name.. Also, I am sure it wasn't too easy to write with those big, weird, feather things they used to use. The being uneducated at her wedding wasn't her fault. Poor girl was only 14 and her Mom did not spend time concerning herself with Marie Antoinette's schooling because she was so far down the line in the birth order. Her mother never figured that Marie would be valuable, as far as, making a really good, profitable marriage contract for their country in her future, so of course, she had no need for an education. However, Marie Antoinette staying stupid was her own fault because she could have spent a little bit of time learning about politics, the state of affairs of the people of her new country, maybe reading a book with some informational worth (rather than dirty romance novels that she enjoyed), and  maybe a little less time partying. Apparently she used to stay out all night at parties, balls, and gambling, and sleep all day, causing her Mother's spy to write letters of complaint.

The book talked about how she loved to spend time with kids, and often used her own money to help orphans. Still that did not redeem her in my mind, and it didn't make her a good queen. First off, playing with kids is fun, especially when you get married at 14, (she was actually a kid herself, duh). And the little money she spent helping orphans, most likely was to ease her conscience while she spent LOADS of money on herself; doing things like; buying herself 200 new outfits a year, building a theater so that she could act in it herself, rebuilding the gardens at Triaon (and I am not talking about like just a little landscaping either, I mean like fountains, chapels, buildings, rivers, etc), redesigning her suite at Versailles, and ordering all kinds of new furniture. Not to mention, losing $136,000-in today's $ after gambling for 36 hours straight. Yeah, just for example! Meanwhile, the people of her country were pawning their clothes, in the winter- an especially cold winter due to an El Nina-according to modern day scientists- in order to buy bread- which I might add, the nobility was gouging the price of.

If I ever get my time machine up an running, visiting Marie Antoinette will not be on my list of things to do with it!