Click2Flicks - MARIE ANTOINETTE: - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>MARIE ANTOINETTE:</i>:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="104%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="marie_antoinette_ch2.htm">2. A ROYAL CHILDHOOD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="marie_antoinette_ch3.htm">3. THE YOUNG ANTOINETTE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="marie_antoinette_ch4.htm">4. JOURNEY TO FRANCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="marie_antoinette_ch5.htm">5. "TOO YOUNG TO REIGN"</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=102% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../flags_fathers/marie_antoinette_ch6.htm">6. A GROWING RESENTMENT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../flags_fathers/marie_antoinette_ch7.htm">7. HER CHILDREN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../flags_fathers/marie_antoinette_ch8.htm">8. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../flags_fathers/marie_antoinette_ch9.htm">9. THE REVOLUTION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="../flags_fathers/marie_antoinette_ch10.htm">10. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><a name="preface"><b><u>PREFACE</u></b></a></font></p> </div> <div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i>Courage!<br> I have shown it for years;<br> think you I shall lose it<br> at the moment when my sufferings are to end?<br><br></i></b> Marie Antoinette<br> Queen of France<br></font><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000"><a target="_blank" href="images/marie_theresa.jpg"><b>Maria Theresa</b></a>, mother of sixteen children, had the best interests of her country in mind when she selected her <a target="_blank" href="images/daughter.jpg"><b>daughter’s</b></a> husband. A meaningful political alliance, not a love match, was most important to the Empress as she determined the future of her <a target="_blank" href="images/youngest_girl.jpg"><b>youngest girl</b></a>.</p> <p>At fifteen - the average age of a highschool sophomore - <a target="_blank" href="images/marie_antoinette.jpg"><b>Marie Antoinette</b></a> (then called Antoine) left her family’s home in Vienna to solidify an Austro-Hungarian alliance with France (previously longstanding enemies). Within four years, the young foreigner would become queen of her adoptive country.</p> <p>Had she lived to learn her child’s fate, Antoinette’s mother - the daughter of <a target="_blank" href="images/charles.jpg"><b>Charles VI</b></a> and the <a target="_blank" href="images/only_woman.jpg"><b>only woman</b></a> to be Empress of the <a href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/endmiddle/glossary/holygloss.html#hre" target="_blank"><b>Holy Roman Empire</b></a> - would surely have regretted her political-marriage decision.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="../flags_fathers/marie_antoinette_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>