Marie Joséphine of Savoy future king of Sardinia) was married to her sister-in-law Princess Clotilde of France in 1775. Her eldest brother-in-law, Dauphin Louis Auguste (the future Louis XVI of France), had married Marie Antoinette one year earlier. Marie Joséphine was by view of rank and connections deemed very suitable for a marriage to a French prince, and she had been regarded as a suitable bride of the Dauphin prior to his marriage in 1770. The marriage was supported by Madame du Barry, who wished to create an ally within the royal family and who the king allowed to form the household of the
Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette well as Elena Maria Vidal's 1998 book "Trianon". A 2000 book in the young adult "the Royal Diaries" series is about Marie Antoinette's journey to France as a teenager, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France, 1769-1771). The two best-known movie portrayals of Marie Antoinette have been in the 1938 film "Marie Antoinette", directed by W. S. Van Dyke, in which the Norma Shearer played the queen, and the 2006 film "Marie Antoinette", directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst. "The Affair of the Necklace" is a 2001 film in which Hilary Swank played Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy and Joely Richardson