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There is a tragic queen in French history who is known to the world:
She was a precious little princess of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresia;
She was also the wife of King Louis XVI who was caught in the torrent of the "French Revolution", the magnificent Queen Marie Antoinette.
She was born and married in the royal family, and the first half of her life was infinitely beautiful, and she thought that this was the most generous gift of fate to her.
The Austrian writer Zweig said: "She was too young to know that all the gifts of fate had already been secretly marked with a price." ”
This popular golden sentence is also a portrayal of Queen Mary's life.
She went from a delicate and naughty princess, to a young and ignorant princess, to an indulgent and extravagant Cleopatra, and finally was guillotined by the angry people.
Her life has made countless people sigh and sigh, and get a awakening like enlightenment:
It turns out that unbridled indulgence is the greatest disaster in life.
In 1755, after years of fighting, France and Austria were desperate to end the war and form an alliance.
At that time, the strongest political alliance was the marriage between the two countries.
In this way, Princess Marie Antoinette, the favorite of the Austrian Empress, was appointed to marry Louis XVI, the grandson of the King of France.
As the "group pet" of Austria and France, Princess Mary has been doted on without a bottom line.
Thinking that his daughter would follow French etiquette in the future, the father simply abandoned the Austrian court etiquette and let Mary play wildly in the gardens of the palace every day.
The Empress was also negligent in disciplining Mary.
Until one day, she was shocked to discover that the future Queen of France was thirteen years old and could not write German and French correctly, nor even the most basic knowledge of history and general upbringing.
As the wedding date drew closer, the Empress invited the country's top teachers in various fields to teach Mary culture, art and etiquette.
The French royal family also personally appointed a priest to act as the princess's mentor.
The empress thought that by using such a top-notch education team to make up for the evil, her daughter would definitely be able to quickly obtain the knowledge and upbringing that a queen should have.
didn't know that after more than ten years of "free-range", Mary's character has been deeply branded with the fatal flaw of "lazy and rash, hating to think".
She is so playful that she can't concentrate on one thing at all;
She always likes to lose her mind and hates to think about all serious issues.
The Princess's current situation terrified the Empress, because she knew best how much weight and responsibility a crown carried.
At parting, the Empress gave her daughter a detailed code of manners, and made her swear to read it carefully every month.
However, as soon as the mischievous and loose Mary set foot in France, she threw the empress's earnest teachings and good intentions into the clouds.
She hated being restrained, and the empress's two-hour reading time a day was often replaced by small talk.
A few years later, Mary, who was promoted from crown princess to queen, was even more unscrupulous in freeing herself from the shackles of Xi and etiquette.
Between "hard Xi" and "comfortable play", she chose comfort without hesitation.
But I didn't know that it was this fatal choice that made me shallow and empty-headed.
Lacking vision, she couldn't predict what kind of fierce infighting she would fall into in the treacherous court.
She walked into a forest full of beasts like a white rabbit, unaware that she was in danger.
As the saying goes, "If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight."
When a person is on the cusp of the storm, but does not know how to scheming and calculating, he is destined to be a sacrifice of a battle.
When a person is in a high position in the world, but does not have the wisdom to match it, he has already buried the foreshadowing of tragedy.
If the new king, Louis XVI, had been bold and strong, the history of 18th-century France would have been different.
But this king, who liked to make locks, had a weak personality and was particularly slow to understand politics.
Not only that, but in the seven years after his marriage, Louis XVI had another major flaw that could not be talked about: sexual impotence.
This made Louis XVI, who was already cowardly, more obedient to Marie Antoinette in his inferiority and guilt.
As a result, the queen abandoned the most basic fear of the king and became more and more self-serving.
The great emptiness brought about by the disharmony of conjugal life makes her constantly chase after all the pleasures that can stimulate the senses.
In terms of food and clothing, her extravagance has staggered countless people.
She customizes 12 formal dresses, 12 evening dresses, 12 ordinary dresses every quarter, and adds more than 100 new sets of clothes every year.
The hairstylist has to comb her hair every day:
On the high bun, there are not only fruits, gardens, but also houses and boats, and they are decorated with expensive ostrich feathers.
Jewelry was also the queen's favorite, and she spent 250,000 livres on a bracelet without even blinking an eye.
The queen was gradually overwhelmed by the huge expenses, and at the instigation of those around her, she became obsessed with gambling.
Later, Queen Mary fell in love with the masquerade.
After putting on the mask, her long-suppressed vigorous hormones seemed to have found a huge outlet;
She indulged in the ambiguous atmosphere with various aristocratic youths again and again without knowing it.
For a time, rumors spread in the palace - the king is cowardly, the queen is indulgent, and the royal family has no heirs.
This also gave rise to strong ambitions among the king's brothers, who had no hope of competing for the throne.
Empress Theresia immediately saw the great crisis of her daughter, and hurriedly arranged for her son to visit France, half suggesting and half urging Louis XVI to urgently undergo men's surgery.
The intervention was so successful that soon after Queen Mary gave birth to princesses and princes one after another, adding the most solid leverage to her throne.
In the first few years of giving birth to a princess and prince, Queen Mary became calm and steady, and everything seemed to be on track.
But after a few years, she began to get worse.
In order to indulge in pleasure without any constraints, Queen Mary asked the king to give herself a small palace, the Trianon.
Here, she got rid of all the shackles of court etiquette, singing and indulging in fun every night.
Later, the queen simply did not return to the Palace of Versailles, and lived directly in this unfettered world.
In contrast to the queen's extravagant life, countless French people were in poverty and hunger.
Many families are surrounded by walls, and some don't even have a place to shelter.
And the pampered queen never tried to understand all the sufferings of the subjects of this country.
The huge class contradictions made countless commoners disappointed in Louis XVI's nest and angry at Queen Marie's extravagance.
We often say that "if virtue is not worthy, there will be disaster".
Queen Mary, who was obsessed with her own small world, was unaware that the Bourbon dynasty, which she thought was impregnable, was already on the verge of storm.
Queen Mary, who indulged in pleasure, gathered a large number of people with ulterior motives around her.
These men, in order to obtain great benefits, did everything they could to please the queen, and never gave her any useful advice.
As long as you can become the queen's "friend", fame, status, and money can roll in.
This also made the various forces in the court who were snubbed and excluded have a huge hatred for her.
The king's three aunts went around collecting evidence of the queen's profligacy and indulgence, and added fuel and vinegar to the fabrication of a large number of unwarranted "little yellow texts", which were made into countless pamphlets and circulated around the palace and outside the palace.
The Duke of Orion, who was denied the title of marshal by the Queen, gathered around him a large number of commoners who were influenced by the ideas of British democracy and the American Revolutionary War.
The king's own brother, the Count of Provence, has been delusional about "stepbrother stepbrother" in the 7 years when the king has no heirs, but he did not expect that the queen gave birth to two boys and two girls one after another, and the royal brother is also full of jealousy, always waiting for the opportunity to overthrow the king.
On July 14, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the Bastille and the French Revolution broke out.
Although Louis XVI was criticized for incompetence, he carried out some reforms and supported the American Revolution.
Therefore, the revolutionaries pointed all the fingers at the queen and poured all the dirty water on her head.
After the fall of the Bastille, the angry crowd screamed all the way to the queen's bedchamber.
When she saw the heads of the slain guards dripping with blood from the spears, Queen Mary awoke in great fear.
This queen, who has always been lazy and greedy for pleasure, began to rebel.
The king was sluggish and submissive, so she stepped forward and became extraordinarily studious.
She received guests, made plans, appealed to foreign countries, and sought foreign aid;
In order to deliver top-secret information, she even learned to use a password to pass the book.
She tries to paralyze her enemies and does everything she can to regain power from the imminent dethronement of her husband and son.
But all these struggles were in vain in the face of the overwhelming revolution.
Years of neglect of Xi and self-improvement have left the queen's wisdom and strategy completely inadequate to cope with the current desperate situation.
Their plan to escape failed, and the king and queen were imprisoned by the angry populace.
Soon after, the king was deposed and subsequently executed.
The queen and her two children were put on death row in the dark.
It was only at this moment that the queen suddenly recalled her mother's exhortations and admonitions over the years, and she could not help but sigh:
"Only in the midst of misfortune do you know who you are. ”
Knowing that there was no hope of survival, she decided to die calmly with the last dignity and pride of the royal family.
When the executioner's hand fell, Queen Mary's body was different, and the curtain came down on a feudal dynasty.
Princess Marie Antoinette's life of "born in peace and died in sorrow" is infinitely embarrassing.
If she had worked hard to learn and Xi when she was young, she might have enough wisdom to withstand the crisis;
If she cares about the people and recommends talents after her marriage, she will not fall into the quagmire of indulgence and pleasure.
In fact, looking at our own lives, how can this not be the case?
When we were children, we avoided reading and learning Xi, and when we grew up, we were mediocre and humble for half of our lives;
When we are young, we are overdrawn every day, and when we are old, we are often sick.
The ancients said: "The bird that flies high dies from gluttony, and the fish in the deep pool dies from the bait." ”
The comforts that you coveted when you were young will eventually be repaid twice as much one day in the future.
Those excessive indulgences in ignorance will eventually make the body pay the heaviest price.
A life that is too indulgent is one of the biggest disasters.