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 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