FRENCH QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE:

The Queen,Marie Antoinette, had the charm the King(Louis xvi) lacked,but little common sense.She used her influence over the king to block the moves for reforms and thereby earned the hatred of commons.

French aristocrats of the Old Regime were captivated by the rural life of shepherds and peasants and other country people. Now the rural life was not easy or happy but these French aristocrats idealized and prettified it.

The French aristocrats enjoyed poetry and plays and paintings and music with a pastoral setting.

At Versailles, the Queen Marie Antoinette had architects build a replica of a rustic village, where she and her favorite courtiers, dressed as peasants, pretended to be milkmaids and shepherds. Just notice the irony: the nobility of France play-acting as common people while those same people daily grew more discontented and dissatisfied.

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