Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette (; ; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre, which she held
Marie Antoinette (2006 film) most delicate of looks on adolescence". Frodon, editor of "Les Cahiers du cinéma", praised Coppola for her "'genius' at portraying adolescent alienation." Among negative critical reviews, Jean-Luc Douin of "Le Monde" described "Marie Antoinette" as "kitsch and roc(k)oco" which "deliberately displays its anachronisms", and additionally as a "sensory film" that was "dreamt by a Miss California" and "orchestrated around the Du Barry or Madame de Polignac playground gossip". Alex Masson of "Score" thought the film had a script "which is often forgotten to the corruption of becoming a special issue of "Vogue" devoted to scenes of Versailles". French critics were