things in France were not a lot to good, although the court was the most splendid in Europe, France was increasingly impoverished many died of starvation and the death rate was high, there was no bread and this was necessary and that formed and occupied an important part of French food, Versailles, more is more empty, and no amount of courtiers who often had, the queen is not aware of this issue but rents are very high and palace the courtiers are no longer willing to pay more, not if there is a queen to take charge of events at the Petit Trianon Queen meets her lover in secret and have the opportunity to lead the life of a peasant without labels strict or heavy clothes, she is free for the first time in his life, King has to ask permission to enter to visit, no one enters this palace without an invitation from the queen, the palace has the stamp of the queen at it to see, is the new neoclassical style adopted by it, but emphasizes simplicity while still being elegant and beautiful, is maintained by the king, where remodeling is not spending as much as in the Hameu or dresses that she acquired when she was a young queen, their costs decrease with time, but the damage is done, the economy is stumbling, lack of money, the war of independence only brought disgrace and new ideas of freedom to the common people, to be more and more empty the palace asks the Queen to return permanently or visit Versailles.
Marie Antoinette exchanged their wild years or sold below their purchase price priceless jewels for new ones, it was no secret in court that he had a soft spot for these, and his mother often scolded her for not knowing how to keep its great heritage and that when he was sent to France this led him a lot of jewels and once married to the Dauphin was granted another batch of jewelry by the French monarchy, but these jewels were often old and were not in fashion were large and heavy and that he disliked Mary Antoinette. Because of this weakness was that the Countess Du Barry try to win favor by sending expensive jewelry that stretched teen Marie Antoinette rejected by the dubious origin of these.
Years after the Court reaches a huge collar that today no woman would use it because it was a top extravaganza, full of heavy diamond, this jewel half of Europe had come to bid but no real home was allowed such a luxury, not only this generates a scandal in the village, but with the commencement of the Queen's Necklace, all expenses are disclosed many nobles, millions are spent on palaces, jewels and other banalities, while bread and bakeries do not have people working day after day, and are not fed, rising taxes and generate more disagreement, the king has taken a lot of money from the coffers, is the latest news in France is known that in 12 years which has governed million francs have been taken, his gaze turns people against Marie Antoinette, the Austrian ah was that she took that money wasted on their clothes, their gifts for their lovers, that bitch Austrian is cancer of the French treasury, said the fishmongers, economic woes and are guilty and since then the Queen of France is simply madame deficit, anger and helplessness of the people against it downloads in difficult times where there no bread, where crops are poor, where taxes are high, anger is focused on one person and is someone who can not defend itself from the injuries, people do not feed bread feed on gossip, sinister stories are made around the queen. Pamphlet
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People are talking about general statements, asks the court to restrain spending and Louis XVI as ever wavers in his decisions about all these financial problems and scandals , there is a cultural event, Madame Elizabeth Vigue Lerun made a portrait of the queen holding a rose, just that and only bring a necklace and a bracelet of pearls, the dress is elegant but simple, but despite this the picture to be exposure is not welcome and criticized Madame Lebrun Vigue decide to remove the showroom the picture of Mary Antoinette to prevent it from being abused, but it happens again do another portrait of the queen but this time with another dress much easier to please the people, but again the picture is heavily criticized since the Queen is dressed in a dress white muslin, with an English-style straw hat, some say the queen is in a nightgown ready to go to sleep, which is a shameless for being in your underwear, other say that the Queen is dressed as an ordinary peasant and others say that the queen honored tribute to the English to dress like them and not take the French court dress. Marie Antoinette can not go to the theater is greeted with hostility in France and forms are not respected and people say what thinks she is offended by where you go, at Versailles will communicate to the king that the queen would be better not to visit Paris for a while, because if for some reason it triggered an upheaval would be impossible to save her, communicated this to the cries and says:
What do you want me? What have I done? A desperate times, desperate measures, say goodbye to hiring freezes, cancel the new renovations and construction, put limits on purchases with regard to clothes and jewelry Madame Bertin has a limit on their new creations, No More Bets no gambling, offered for sale other palaces not used, these measures are small.
The only truth is that the leaflets have begun to take effect on the reputation of the queen, is no longer seen as sweet and beautiful queen mother of the Dauphin of France, now just a woman who has caused cross France a major economic crisis, these leaflets have been funded by disaffected courtiers and even by members of the royal family are not received in Trianon, the Duke of Orleans, the Count and Countess of Provence, the daughters of Louis XV, Madame Sophia Adelaide, Victoria, all these sinister characters are isolated in their palaces to various nobles who have been overlooked in court and are no longer invited to the dances and receptions, ministers, princes and princesses who are no longer in charge in court as the queen hates the label and is believed with sufficient authority to decide who should occupy the key positions of government.
the daughters of Louis XV
Several wrong decisions have serious consequences take their toll for 1785.