In October 1793, the maritime climate in France plunged the entire Palace of Versailles into gloom and dampness, but this magnificent palace has long since lost the shadow of Queen Mary.
Mary was imprisoned in Pürburg for a full year along with Louis XVI, and during this rainy season, Mary will usher in her trial – the guillotine.
At this time, Queen Mary was only 38 years old, and it was her 22nd year of leaving Austria to live in France, and such rainy weather was familiar and unfamiliar to her.
The guillotine was set up very high, like an opera stage, like a lectern, like a high bed in her bedroom. When she was pushed onto the final stage that ended her life, Mary remained as if she were being worshipped, maintaining the grace and dignity of the royal family.
But her stumbling steps betrayed her heart, and the people who had paid tribute to her now turned into beasts of prey, roaring at her, urging her death, so that Mary stepped on the executioner's feet in a panic.
"Sorry, you know, I didn't mean it."
Portrait of Queen Mary
To the executioner who was about to cut off her own head, Mary did not complain, did not hate, she maintained the etiquette and demeanor as always, and adhered to the dignity of the Queen of France.
The executioner Sansson recorded this sentence, and the executioners had cut off the heads of many of their royal relatives during the French Revolution, and those who claimed to be noble became ugly when they were dying, while the queen, who was called the "culprit", remained cultured.
Finally, in the midst of the crowd's cries, Mary's head was cut off, and she changed into a dazzling red dress before her execution, sucking her blood, and the red was dazzling.
In the end, Mary's body was thrown into a mass grave and buried, and she left in a red dress, just as she had come to this world in a fancy dress.
Portrait of Queen Mary and the child
In 1755, the Austrian Empire gave birth to a young princess, Marie Antoinette, whose parents were rational Germans, and she showed the romantic style of the French from birth.
Instead of being influenced by the mother of politicians, she was highly gifted in aesthetics and art, and Mozart was attracted to Mary at the age of 6, and he proposed to the 7-year-old Princess Mary at a ball.
Two and a half children, fairy tales make the atmosphere of the ball lively, at this time the attention of the crowd on the only princess Mary among the politicians, the fresh and bright breath sweeps away the haze that hangs over Vienna.
Portrait of Mary as a girl
This childish confession only added to the pleasure of the ball, after all, no one could have predicted that Mozart would become a famous musician, and Mary was on the guillotine two years after Mozart's death.
Witnessing her little daughter being proposed, the queen with three crowns, secretly noticing her sweet and lovely little princess, she has a new measure of Mary's future.
The charming Mary, not only has the love of her parents, but also does not lack the love of suitors, the growth of the girl can be described as smooth, and even when she became the queen of France, she also exerted her artistic talent.
She, for Paris, left behind an artistic gem, the Petit Trianon, the Rococo era to the peak, interpreting the true art of the court, the queen herself performed the opera, so that the luxurious Palace of Versailles, almost a day is not a night light.
But, as the biographer Zweig put it: "She was too young to know all the gifts of fate, and she had already secretly marked the price..."
Portrait of Mary
In 1770, at the age of 14, Mary boarded a carriage leaving Vienna to fulfill a political marriage agreed upon four years earlier.
Mary, the youngest daughter of Queen Maria, grew up freely in the palaces of Austria, she was an elegant and sweet princess, and the child of her parents' naughty personality, she did not know anything about the responsibility of becoming a princess.
She simply obeyed her mother's arrangement, got into the carriage, and bid farewell to the land along the road, until the carriage reached the border between the two countries, and Mary experienced the first difficulties of France for her.
In a tent set up on the spot, stripped naked in front of a group of high-looking waitresses, not even a pair of stockings can be kept, this is the Tradition of France, when you arrive in France, you have to throw away everything about Austria, which is also the French way to Give Mary.
It was only after a long period of negotiation that Mary was allowed to bring her dowry into versailles, and the free and romantic little princess was frustrated to meet her husband, Louis XVI.
In European history, there have been three kings executed, and King Louis XVI of France can be said to be one of them gentle enough.
If he were to splurge and play with women, his father would definitely be several times more powerful than him, so it would be outrageous to put the corruption of the entire empire on this unfortunate child.
Portrait of Louis XVI
But the fact is that luck in life can determine many things, and Louis XVI, with his bad luck, just when it was the turn of the old and the new revolution, became the scapegoat of the entire feudal dynasty and was pushed to the guillotine.
Louis XVI, who had just met his fiancée, was only 16 years old, just a "polytechnic man" who was obsessed with making locks, and he built the most advanced hardware workshop in France in the Palace of Versailles, full of exquisite art locks of different forms.
The crown prince's status was nothing more than a convenience for his lock-making career, and he was also a romantic who knew nothing about politics, and in this regard, Marie and Louis XVI could be said to be a perfect match.
Louis XVI and Marie film images
However, a pair of "Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu", who are so like-minded and do not take the "right path", did not stage a love that broke through the feudal etiquette, but instead embarrassed the "child bed" on the wedding night.
It can be said that the man who loves to study the lock in France the most, but he can't study his wife's lock, and he can't find the key to open his heart, Louis XVI, because of physical reasons, he and Marie remain innocent after marriage, so that the whole royal family is talking about it.
Mary married to France, with the expectations of her mother, Queen Maria, that she needed to conceive a child as soon as possible, to stop the French attack on the Austrian Empire, and to beg for peace for her Austrian people.
At that time, France had been hostile to the Austrian Empire for 300 years, and Mary was the "goddess of peace" given to France by Queen Maria, a marriage with strong political implications.
To this end, her queen mother frequently sent letters urging her to live with Louis XVI, and even her brother came to visit Louis XVI in person to let him and his sister live as a conjugal.
But in fact, the problem of not being able to round the house is that it is in Louis XVI, who has physical problems and is very taboo to see a doctor, which is delayed again and again.
However, in the whole palace, there were malicious speculations about Mary, some people said that Mary did not like the crown prince, some people denigrated Mary for having miscarriages before, and even some people loudly ridiculed her in front of Mary that she was an unborn woman.
This is the second time that France has made Mary difficult, making her the center of the public opinion storm, shouldering the responsibility of passing on the generations for her husband, and unable to meet everyone's expectations.
But even if the bad words hurt people, she only endured in silence, unable to put down her body to argue with those people, because as a princess of the Austrian Empire, Mary had her own pride and dignity.
At that time, Mary was very unaccustomed to the old king's mistress, Madame Dubali, and she was extravagant like a festering fruit, which annoyed Mary, and the rule of the French court at that time was that if The Crown Princess Mary did not speak to Du Barry first, Du Barry could not take the initiative to talk.
Mary movie image
After being left out in the cold, Dubali went to complain to King Louis XV, and the wind on the pillow was so useful that even Queen Maria wrote to make Mary soft.
But an imperial princess, the future queen of France, Mary had her own insistence, and even in the king's face, Mary was reluctant to make friends with Du Barry and refused the jewelry she gave.
In order to give her father-in-law some face, at a banquet, Mary said to Du Barry: "There are so many people in Versailles today. It was the only thing she had ever said to Du Barry, and the third time France had tried to treat her.
With the death of the old king, Madame Dubali also stepped down, and Louis XVI wanted to give Mary the necklace that the old king had made for Madame Dubali, but Mary immediately refused.
"It's better to spend the money on warships."
But what Mary didn't expect by this time was that she had become the most hated look she hated, spending all day in flowers, extravagant, indulging in parties, custom dresses, jewelry and hairstyles.
If the marriage is not satisfied, Mary can only find other aspects to make up for it, and Louis XVI is also willing to compensate Mary materially, so there are various evidence of subsequent incriminating.
Horse farms, cocktail parties, theaters, gambling tables, these hedonistic places are always indispensable to Mary's figure, her dress has changed from fresh and elegant to gorgeous and luxurious, the more jewels are worn, the more the skirt is changed, and even her wig is getting higher and higher.
Some people joked that Queen Mary's shape could simply trigger a revolution in architecture, allowing places such as theaters to raise their doors.
Mary put her artistic talents into fashion, and she became a "net celebrity" of French high society for a time, leading the trend of noble ladies.
But Princess Mary's tutor said: "She is much smarter than people have long imagined, but unfortunately she did not develop the habit of concentration until she was 13 years old"
Queen Mary movie image
Queen Mary is best at half-heartedness, and her achievements in fashion are not enough to satisfy her heart, and she also went to the opera for the first time, wearing a costume that caused an uproar.
For her share of state affairs, she always threw it to a few unreliable cronies, freely delegated power, and only indulged in her own leisurely pleasures and tasted the sweet frosting on the plate.
The young queen and the king were immersed in joy every day, completely unaware of the danger that the mansion would fall.
Such a willfulness, the princess can have, but the queen can not have. But Mary went her own way, ignoring anyone's advice, and intensified her pursuit of a life of drunkenness, dismissing people who disagreed with her, including her mother.
Mary's politician mother has been writing to warn Mary that what she has done will set herself on fire, and that war and corrupt politics have put the country in jeopardy!
But Marie did not take her mother's words to heart, she never participated in politics, she did not understand politics, and more important things had come to her—she was born with the daughter of Louis XVI.
Under the cascading drapery was the queen's bed, as high as her status, and the lavish palace was crowded with people, all of whom watched the moment when the queen gave birth to the little princess.
In order to ensure the purity of the royal bloodline, the French queen can be watched during childbirth until people see the birth of the prince with their own eyes.
Exhausted, Mary struggles to give birth to her daughter and falls into a coma, and the doctor shouts to disperse the crowd and give Mary some fresh air.
Portrait of Queen Mary's child
This was the fourth time that france had brought Mary a hard time, leaving her in a high position without knowing whether to be honored or humiliated.
Inside this bedchamber there were all kinds of people, both men and women, making the air awkward and cloudy, and Mary was now like a royal plaything for people to visit.
Although she was put on the altar, she also fell into endless sorrow and humiliation, her dignity as a human and a woman was trampled by the royal power, and the highly ritualistic court not only oppressed the people, but also destroyed the living people in it.
Portrait of Queen Mary and the surviving child
Driven by motherhood, Mary gradually returned to her natural nature, and Louis XVI built a manor for her in the Palace of Versailles, allowing her to live with her children.
The return of love makes Mary's heart no longer so empty, and she soon gives birth to a child, and Mary escapes from various dance theaters and lives a plain and simple pastoral life.
Mary had long since removed her towering wig, no longer greased and powdered, gold and silver, just a very simple cloth dress, the most natural dress, just like her teenage years in Austria.
From being ridiculed by the entire French royal family and deciding to indulge in pleasure, to the current return to blandness, Mary has only spent a few absurd years.
Portrait of the guillotine
Even if Mary wasted and wantonly in these years, she spent less money than Louis XV's mistress used.
The prosperous world needs women to embellish, and the chaotic world needs women to bear the sin. Lu Xun once said: "But male authors have always blamed women for the great sin of defeat." ”
Louis XVI was almost reduced to a marionette at that time, and he only cared about his exquisite locks, and "locked" himself in the small world.
In contrast to Louis XVI, who was not involved in politics, the "Lady of the Deficit" Marie became the target of public criticism, and the people wantonly vented hatred on this woman.
Images of the Law Country Revolution
At this time, it happened that the necklace of Du Barry caused the scandal of the queen's theft, and even if it was not Mary's doing, the people did not want to believe the infamous queen.
Mary was set up as a target, and there was a reason for her stubborn personality. When her husband had weakly surrendered to the rebels, Mary stood firm against the terms of the king's outlawing, by means of resoluteness, and was called "the only man in the royal family".
But Marie only inherited the bravery of her mother, but did not inherit her mother's wisdom, at that time it was already the situation in which the French people broke through the Bastille and the rebels invaded the Palace of Versailles, and what Mary did was only to arouse the indignation of the people.
In order to turn the situation around, Mary turned to her mother's family for help, and used her status as a French princess to become a spy to transmit military intelligence to Austria.
After this was revealed, France had no reason to keep the "evil girl" queen, and the rebels imprisoned her with Louis XVI, waiting for the verdict of the law.
Queen Mary's daughter was assaulted by prison guards during the unrest, and her son was forced to identify her mother for incest and died depressed in a cell full of flea feces.
Mary and her children, who fell during the French Revolution
As Mary herself said: Whatever she did, she was guilty simply because she stood on a high place, because she was royal, because she was profligate and promiscuous.
In an age when feudalism was overthrown and power was redistributed, born against the people, it was Queen Mary's original sin, and no matter what kind of person she was, she could not escape the end of destruction.
As stated at the beginning of the article, the gift of fate has long been priced, and Mary has enjoyed the luxury that ordinary people cannot enjoy, and correspondingly paid a heavy price, losing everything.