Comments on: The Diamond Necklace Affair

By: Kayla

Kayla — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:57:02 +0000

Thank you for this it helped with my paper also and now I know more

By: dauphiine

dauphiine — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:16:50 +0000

Your blog is amazing! Where did you find a picture of infamous necklace in color.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:34:54 +0000

hey how do you cite this website?

By: ray n

ray n — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:10:42 +0000

I’ve only very recently took on a very keen interest on the life and times of Marie-Antoinette. It all started after I watched Sofia’s work. Now, before the e-vultures come and attack my attribution, I initially thought Sofia’s production was lame. I “attempted” to watch her movie back in ’07, but couldn’t fathom the music with the period piece. After about 30 minutes or so, I turned it off.

5 years later(i.e last night), oddly enough, out of the blue I decided to give that movie another go. This time the movie went 120 minutes, and I was completely captured by it. In fact, I’ve seen it THREE times – in a row. The movie was her interpretation of the novel by Fraser.

Perplexed by everything, I started reading all materials surrounding the story/setting/piece/historical accounts/accuracy/fact & fiction.

Most articles I’ve come across attributed the sacking of the Bastille & the Women’s March as the primary turning points of the Revolution.

The story about the diamond necklace was something I did not knew about, until I stumbled upon this website.

I think the author has made a very valid argument about how the diamond necklace was the real catalyst behind the revolution.

I now wish to visit the Versailles ! No, I’m not a royalist supporter, nor am I a buorgeoise by any stretch of imagination. In fact, I consider Ernesto Guevara to be a true people’s hero (with some needed captions to clarify his life’s later decisions…)

With all that said, and what I’ve read so far about Marie-Antoinette, I am sympathetic for her.

Today’s corporate world can learn a lot from the events that lead to the French revolution.

Keep up the good work. Any web forum will attract the usual defractors and nay-sayers, but to keep a website running for 10 years is dedication. Just wanted to acknowledge that.

Cheers!

By: Elena

Elena — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:00:32 +0000

Hi.
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By: DanaS

DanaS — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:41:48 +0000

The story is lovely. Perhaps some of the inconsistencies in grammar or spelling come from a difference in the language spoken by those who submit articles and/or comments? It is often difficult to transition from one to the other with perfect fluidity. After all, there are a great deal of nations interested in French history, not just English and French speaking ones.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:45:56 +0000

Thanks! This helped me with my research project!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:33:30 +0000

Great read! Back in the sixties I did a report on Marie Antoinette for my junior high history class. This lady has always intrigued me.

By: Amy Tinlin

Amy Tinlin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:21:34 +0000

Awesome Submission… and reflects great insights on the whole history. I Believe Marie Antoinette was one of those most eye-catching figures… so tragic in the end.I believe the was history enthralling and thanking you for such throughout research and easily understanding stuff.

By: eliza

eliza — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:56:38 +0000

ok, mia, the sofia coppola film on marie antoinette says on the back its a chick flick, not an emotional thing, and its not emotional, it’s as bad as the libels, because it’s publisizing untrue rumors about somebody who was what everyone seems to be forgetting, a real person, just like everyone else. if you were maried to your cousin at the age of fourteen and had to live in a completely different country with a completelly different culture how would you feel? i know i probably sound kind of mean, but i greatly believe that marie antoinette was completelly miss understood through out her life, and so yes, she had a lot of money at her disposal, so she did what anyone would do and used it, and then it became her way of escaping all the things people were saying about her, because by spending her time making herself beautiful she wouldnt have to listen to what people were saying about her.
also, this website has let complete crap missuse of information be published, and its unfair to the memory of marie antoinette, i am thirteen and i know more than the person who wrote this, how sad is that?
i think what the world needs is, (this is going to sound like the ramblings of a silly teenage girl, but thats what i am so), to find a diary of marie antoinette buried somewhere so they can here her side, because i know for a fact that if people are talking about me in two hundred years (which i hope they are, cos i plan to be a historical writer), i would want it to be in a good way! and the s p film (sp sofia coppola, or stupid pathetic?) yes, it was a bloddy stupid chick flick, but the politics they did put in should at least have been correct, and why are there no political films about marie antoinette? and for the record, nobody should make a chick flick about somebody who gets there head chopped of, does anybody have a concience these days? also, they should have ended it so that the underknowledged film watchers should at least know how her life ends! and they should have got an actor for count ferson who had a small face and should have been wearing a white wig, but know, they couldnt even get that right because know one would simpathize with the lies made up about their main character if people looked how they actually did.