Marie Antoinette slide lecture based on the exhibition at the Grand Palais
(15 March – 30 June, 2008)
Three
hundred exceptional paintings, sculptures and objets d’art have been
gathered in the Grand Palais to illustrate the life and times of of France’s last
Queen of the Ancien Régime. Our lecture will trace Marie Antoinette’s career
from her childhood in the court of Vienna to her arrival as very young Dauphine
to the court of Versailles to
marry the future Louis XVI, her frivolous career as young Queen, but also major
patron of fashion and the arts; the creation of her private universe in her
legendary village and gardens at the Petit Trianon, the darkening of the
political climate of the 1780’s with the scandal of the Queen’s necklace and
then the proud resistant Queen under Revolution ending as courageous
“martyr” under the guillotine blade in 1793.
To inquire about scheduling a private lecture for your group, contact us by email.
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