Marie Antoinette (2006 film) the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI, to seal an alliance between the two rival countries. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her home country, including her pet pug "Mops", and meets King Louis XV of France and her future husband, Louis Auguste. The two arrive at the Palace of Versailles, which was built by the King's great-grandfather. They are married at once and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible, but the next day it is reported to the king that "nothing happened" on the wedding night. As time
Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette —M. ANTOINETTE The most famous historical fiction which features Marie Antoinette is the Alexandre Dumas, père novel "Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge" ("The Knight of the Red House,") which centers on the Carnation Plot. It is actually the first of a series of six books written by Dumas with Marie Antoinette featured, called the "Marie Antoinette novels", in which the queen is shown in a sympathetic light, particularly during the "Diamond Necklace Affair". Some of the more famous historical novels that have portrayed Marie Antoinette in more recent years includes Carolly Erickson's 2005 novel "The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette", as