Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette was immature, brazenly self-indulgent, impetuous and wholly unprepared for the role history cast for her. Her sad attempts to consummate her marriage read like bedroom farce, and she did little to quell the rumors of her increasingly dangerous liaisons. Bolstered by the staged receptions that she mistook for papular approval, she was out of touch with the nation’s economic troubles, the social and political climate of prorevolutionary France, and eventually …showed first 75 words of 1352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1352 total…built and had the gardens completely redesigned in the new English fashion, complete with lake, river, temple of Love, and village, all at great expense, unpopularity turned to outright hatred. So convinced were the people that all the state’s money was going to the Queen that , in 1789, many of the Deputies to the Estates General asked to see the well known room at the Trianon that had walls covered with emeralds and diamonds ( Nardo 64).