tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post7881292408936574563..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Marie-Antoinette and the Revolutionelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-5204417483229803202012-06-20T18:51:11.678-04:002012-06-20T18:51:11.678-04:00Thank you for your kind words, Dorit honey.Thank you for your kind words, Dorit honey.elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-78140224804946814852012-06-20T15:55:24.365-04:002012-06-20T15:55:24.365-04:00Thanks for so devotedly continuing to analyze in i...Thanks for so devotedly continuing to analyze in interesting way, add information, fight misconceptions. I always learn much from your posts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606807832521443462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-35696813581782369432012-06-20T13:53:17.083-04:002012-06-20T13:53:17.083-04:00Great points, as always, Dorit. Thank you for your...Great points, as always, Dorit. Thank you for your contributions!elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-16019751486096876712012-06-20T12:03:21.938-04:002012-06-20T12:03:21.938-04:00In addition to my previous comment, I think I view...In addition to my previous comment, I think I view the revolution more positively than you do, but I too am not surprised - nor do I think was anyone - at Marie Antoinette's hostility to it. However, I will say that by taking that position, she made herself more of an actor and less of an innocent victim than those swept along (her children, bystanders). Not because she "betrayed" anyone - I agree on you with that - but because she was a real threat. Frankly, if the royalists won, she would probably have supported strong measures against the leaders. From their point of view, she was a combatant.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606807832521443462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-77877092486235262422012-06-20T12:03:05.679-04:002012-06-20T12:03:05.679-04:00I agree with your points and think they are well t...I agree with your points and think they are well taken, but I think you are forgetting one thing: the history Marie Antoinette drew on. All the sources I read suggested she was not an avid student of history (unlike Louis XVI), but still, the story of the English revolution, only a century and a half ago, and the fate of Charles I was common knowledge in the existing culture, and she no doubt knew it. So besides the direct violence, she had good reasons, based on history, to feel directly threatened...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606807832521443462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-18625308725009264192007-08-21T22:49:00.000-04:002007-08-21T22:49:00.000-04:00Interesting and enlightening. Thanks for sharing....Interesting and enlightening. Thanks for sharing. As with the Russian Revolution there were several opportunities when other European monarchs could have intervened and prevented the murders of Louis and M. A as well as Nicholas and Alexandra, but it was not to be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com