December 2009

Parenting - Maria Antonieta - Eleventh Party

portrait of the royal family and the Delfin

Since being chosen Marie Antoinette, in France by Louis XV, his grandson to marry the Duke of Berry, it was primarily aimed to perpetuate the dynasty, as every house ruling, Maria Antoinette had a good record of fertility in your family, as they had never missed princes and princesses in the house of Habsburg, his mother was the living example of this since he had 16 children, do not expect anything less for this princess of Habsburg, was very sure he would have many children and would be a devoted wife to the Duke of Berry awkward Dauphin of France, Maria Teresa was admired not only as a struggle to maintain their power, but the way she wore her relationship with her husband were not the typical couple had been married for dynastic issues, but a couple who had learned to love and respect, while the father of Maria Antonieta the Emperor Francis Stephen not was nothing loyal to Maria Theresa, kept paying lip service to this and treated her with great affection.

Marie Antoinette lost all his titles to get to France, to only be the Dauphine of France, and humiliating spend 7 long years for this can be conceived and implemented as a woman, because during those long years of marriage was not Women of the Dolphin, was only the Dauphine of France, Marie Antoinette viewed with some envy as the young marriages made in court are developing normally and is one of the Duchess of Chartres it takes a few months of marriage penalties than Marie Antoinette, the Duchess gives birth to first child is born dead, for which despair and sorrow Maria Antonieta dare say this to his mother ... .. "No matter how awful it has to be it, I wanted to at least get there" ... .... a boy dead is at least what I asked her, to show that there is infertile as everyone says, many are already talking about divorce, the years pass and she is still as virgin as I arrive, receives much criticism, has to put up with inappropriate comments on his own table, pamphlets circulating through the palace that reach your hands, cries and despairs, and has tried everything to encourage the Dolphin play it, but it always gives last minute back and sleep deeply as she slowly dying at his side, to the Countess of Provence has many abortions her sister, the Countess of Artois has his first successful pregnancy, and Marie Antoinette who should secure the succession, is unable to reach even a pregnancy unfortunate.

Maria Antonieta

This turns to fear for his life, afraid of being poisoned, he feels that the alliance is teetering, not to return to Austria with the shame of not having been able to realize, what as many women have succeeded, until her older sister Maria Elizabeth has given birth, but a dead child which has left it barren for ever, the dolphin does not reveal what keeps him from consummating his marriage, once it gets to the throne, the situation worse, some kings without issue could trigger a war, the brother of Marie Antoinette, Joseph II is sent by Maria Teresa to solve this problem, we find that the King has a problem that prevents phimosis erection, Joseph II convinces of surgery, and after a few months Marie Antoinette on 04 August announced her pregnancy before the court of Versailles, the court erupts in joy, begin the masses and the party by the arrival of the heir, pregnancy quietly takes the young mother gets excited every time the child moves up to the day of delivery.

Maria Teresa de France

December 18, labor begins, the first pangs are screaming at the queen, is sent to call the Princess Lamballe, her best friend, after that replicate the bells announcing that the queen is about to give birth, the bridesmaids, entering the room, then this is communicated to the members of the royal family and the nobility, such as a duty should be present in the room of the queen at birth the prince or princess.

small Maria Teresa in his happy years in Versallles

all crowd into the room, which is crowded with people among the nobles the doctor barely has space and easement in and out with warm water and cloth, the queen is suffering for seven hours no one is able to make its front row position before the event, the room is full of stench, the atmosphere is unbearably hot, and the queen bid for the midwife last time and announces the arrival of the Princess Maria Teresa, is washed and covered, in the eyes of all a scream breaks the spell, the queen is gone, the King himself has to open the windows because no one in that whole crowd has come up with something more to look morbidly. The queen regains consciousness after bloodletting, all excited about the event held and give their congratulations to new parents. It makes all kinds of celebrations, but not compared with those which would have made if he were a prince. It comprises silver and gold coins, wine, bread among the poor, marriages are arranged under the auspices of Queen among his subjects, fireworks, gifts. Maria Antonieta has shown that enough women and queen. After the celebrations, everything returns to normal despite King said he likes the pleasure of sex, prefer to spend your days on horseback and the Queen continues to dive into a world of frivolity but next to his small, despite that there is limited things you can do with it. Maria Teresa pressured to get pregnant again, and get happy news that she is pregnant again, after a few months, Marie Antoinette is her first abortion, which leaves plunged into depression, this is compounded by the death of his mother on November 29, 1780, the year of his death Maria Antonieta again filled with joy to France, bringing the world the longed-Dauphin, the Duke of Normandy, which is a very sensitive child, the holidays start now if all its magnitude, worthy of a crown prince of France, after this event hatred Maria Antonieta increases, the Count and Countess of Provence, his closest enemies, baptism takes nothing more and nothing less than the Cardinal that was in the cathedral of Strasbourg, its cousin the Cardinal Prince de Rohan, known for the famous case of the collar, all those who later marched to launch each mud and venom against the Queen they do now celebrating the arrival of heir to the throne, for now the mood is relaxed and calm, everyone loves the Queen of France.

Maria Antoinette and their children Maria Teresa and Jose Luis

In 1785, it's second son, the Duke of Berry Luis Javier, the future Louis XVII, a robust child, very healthy, happy and lively. The holidays are taken with the same racket than his brother, each child has his housekeeper and his home al año siguiente nace la princesa Sofía Beatriz, la cual muere a los pocos meses de haber nacido; con la maternidad Maria Antonieta cambia rotundamente, ya no piensa en salir a bailar, estar comprando o apostando, solo quiere estar con ellos y jugar, poco a poco se aleja de la corte y sus diversiones y obligaciones, se enfoca en sus hijos, su vida es hogareña y tranquila, se dedica a cuidarlos, es una madre tierna, pero los acontecimientos la obligan a tener que separarse de ellos y ver como uno a uno desaparece de su vida. Su pequeña Maria Teresa termina confinada en prisión y pasa su juventud sin saber de su familia y de llamarse Maria Teresa Borbón de Habsburgo Lorena Princesa Real de Francia, solo la llaman la huérfana del Temple, his second son died of tuberculosis while watching her father and her mother Louis XVI lost his power, Luis Javier (Louis XVII) the more lively and cheerful for the children of Marie Antoinette wither in prison, battered by the revolution until his death that was all that freed him from a miserable life, little Sofia was spared because if the revolution had not run with the worst luck maybe. The last days of Marie Antoinette spends watching the miniature of her only son alive and playing the golden hair of his daughter captive, praying that they bear better luck than his, in the end only the memories will remain as it is confiscated all their belongings. Alone in the dark is where really appreciate the small moments of happiness with her mother and brothers where he played and ran without a care in the wet cell only memories keep her life as the cancer slowly consumed as the revolution. Portrait of Sofia

Helena Beatriz de France died just small at 14 months of tuberculosis this portrait Madame Vigee LeBrun did

None of the children of Marie Antoinette lived long enough to know and understand the range as high they belonged to be heirs of a country with many cultural riches but impoverished by the ambition of a few, their position in court was the highest and more honors, Maria Teresa does not seem in the least from his very young mother who enjoyed the riches of being a princess, Maria Teresa just wants to live does not matter much if you can or rich, just want to have a family, not claiming nothing, demands revenge, so their relative powerful treat it with much indifference nobody really helps but it just feel sorry for her and give their crumbs, a poor princess is Princess, she has her mother's obstinacy be treated as a high-born Princess Maria Teresa is marked by the revolution who taught him that he is nobody, so agrees to marry her cousin who was helpless and it is presumed that the marriage was never consummated, and not to embarrass her husband demanded that his death was not necropsied. She was always surrounded by mystery and nicknamed the blessed for being very strong in the faith.

royal family imprisoned in the temple

Maria Teresa de France Madame Royale as a teenager when I lived in the court of his uncle, brings a mourning dress and a brooch with the faces of their parents.