What Life Was Like For Marie Antoinette | The Truth Behind the Myth | History for Sleep

Almost everyone thinks they know Marie Antoinette. Almost no one does. She was 14 years old when she was physically stripped of every Austrian garment she owned — her clothes, her jewelry, her dog, even her friends — and handed across a border to become the future Queen of France. Her name was changed. Her country was changed. Her identity rewritten before she had finished growing up. This episode tells the full human story of Marie Antoinette (1755–1793): from her birth in Vienna's Hofburg Palace on the very day Lisbon was destroyed by earthquake, to her formidable mother Maria Theresa, to the gilded cage of Versailles, the French Revolution, and the open cart that carried her through Paris on the last morning of her life. This is not the caricature. This is the person. 🔔 Subscribe for more immersive history documentaries and never miss a story.