Friday, September 24, 2010

BLOG ASSINGMENT #12

                                                                           Maria Antonia was born on  November 2,1755 in  Austria.She was the 15th daughter of Maria Teresa and Empress of Austria.Maria Antonia and marie two girls and were raised together. They shared the same governess until 1767. They became extremely close. She thoroughly enjoyed music and learned to play the harpsichord which she played at the court. She also excelled at dancing  an accomplishment often said .Weather friendly or hostile, having been carefully trained in it since her early youth. She also loved dolls from when she was young, as captured by a family portrait in which seven-year-old "sweet Antonia" happily holds a dolls. Numerous dolls arrived at the Homburg as soon as Marie Antoinette turned thirteen, wearing miniature ball gowns, afternoon dresses, and gold-trimmed gowns proposed for her.

At the age of fourteen she got marrided to Louis.After seven years of marriage she gave birth to a daughter, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, the first of their four children.In the middle of her pregnancy two events occurred which impacted the queen's later life. Marie Antoinette's daughter Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was finally born at Versailles after a difficult labor, on 19 December 1778.

Three months after the empress death, it was rumor that Marie Antoinette was pregnant again which they found out she really was in March 1781.She later had a new baby.Her hair was cut off and she was driven through Paris in an open cart, wearing a simple white dress. At 12:15 pm, two and a half weeks before her thirty-eighth birthday, she died!The life she lived was not normal but she made it. Marie was a very good person but it was her time to die.

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