Marie Antoinette and her children by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1787.
Details
The lecture will trace Marie Antoinette’s public life at Versailles as well as her constant yearning for privacy and informality, achieved when she was given the Petit Trianon and its surrounding gardens. Her short life – she was fourteen years old when she travelled from Vienna to Versailles to marry the Dauphin in 1770, became Queen aged eighteen in 1774 and was guillotined in 1793 aged thirty-seven – became a subject of fascination in the mid-nineteenth century whilst her fashion sense has been an inspiration to designers right up to the present day.
Venue
Online Lecture
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the event is £15 - plus eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the series of lectures, November 20th, November 27th and December 3rd is £70.00 - plus eventbrite booking fee
Programme
4.15-5.15pm
All eyes will be on you: The Public and Private Life of Marie Antoinette
Philippa Barton