"let them eat cake!"

She is the queen who danced while the people starved; who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects’ plight.

Such is the distorted but widespread view of Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France (1755-1793), wife of King Louis XVI.

 

The recent Coppola film has further damaged the image of the much-maligned, beautiful and charming Austrian archduchess, sent to France at age fourteen to marry the fifteen-year-old Dauphin. Sadly, the picture many people now have of Marie-Antoinette is of her running through Versailles with a glass of champagne in her hand, eating bonbons all day long, and rolling in the bushes with a lover.

 

What was the truth and did she say, "let them eat cake!' ? - will we ever know?

 

Model, MUA and props : Lara-Lyn Ahrens

Dress Designer, jewelry & Hair Stylist: Jacques Jansen van Vuuren

Lighting: Nic Kolbe

set: myself

 

Texture 1: my own

Texture 2: skeletal mess - www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/sets/72157611177099692...

 

Take a look Large & View On Black - quite delightful!!!

 

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