475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1)

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The French Revolution is one of the great seismic events of global history. A devouring conflagration of bloodshed, violence and utopianism, it changed France and then latterly the whole of Europe forever. Yet, amidst the panoply of colossal, colourful names that defined this cataclysmic event, few have endured as iconically as that of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, who has in many ways come to embody the revolution in the popular imagination. Yet, from the moment of her arrival from Austria at the tender age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette was a contentious figure in France, with rumours circulating throughout her life of her insatiable sexual appetite and frivolity, her sapphic proclivities, and even her vampirism. But who was the real Marie Antoinette - voraciously decadent 'it' girl and snob or a well-meaning but naive scapegoat? Under what circumstances did she come to marry the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI, and to what extent did she truly spark the French Revolution, with her calls to “let them eat cake!”? Join Tom and Dominic for the first instalment of their magnificent sweep through the outbreak and first years of the French Revolution, as they discuss the early life and character of one of its most celebrated and lambasted figures - an icon of style, a beacon of whimsical, bucolic giddiness, a rapacious monster - Marie Antoinette. _______ *The Rest Is History LIVE in the U.S.A.* If you live in the States, we've got some great news: Tom and Dominic will be performing throughout America in November, with shows in San Francisco, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Boston and New York. *The Rest Is History LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall* Tom and Dominic, accompanied by a live orchestra, take a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history’s greatest composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Tickets on sale now at TheRestIsHistory.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.6	Tom, we've got brilliant news for the listeners, haven't we?
0:51.1	Because although we are going on a tour to the United States in the
0:55.2	autumn, we're a patriotic podcast so we didn't want to leave people in our own beloved country
1:00.2	feeling neglected. So we'll be going to two very different and diverse places in our United
1:06.4	Kingdom, weren't we, to meet the public?
1:08.5	We will. So we wanted to get a real spread, so Dominic we've fixed on Cambridge and Oxford. Two very random places.
1:16.2	So we'll be at Cambridge, the Corn Exchange, on the 17th of September and then we'll be at Oxford and we'll be at the new theatre and that will be
1:24.4	on the 19th of September.
1:26.5	We're massively looking forward to it Tom and what we'll be doing we'll be talking about
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