Marie Antoinette May 1774, the Dauphin ascended the throne as King Louis XVI of France and Navarre with Marie Antoinette as his Queen. At the outset, the new queen had limited political influence with her husband, who, with the support of his two most important ministers, Chief Minister Maurepas and Foreign Minister Vergennes, blocked several of her candidates from assuming important positions, including Choiseul. The queen did play a decisive role in the disgrace and exile of the most powerful of Louis XV's ministers, the Duke of Aiguillon. On 24 May 1774, two weeks after the death of Louis XV, the king
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