It makes sense because Netflix is full of French-language content, while the term "Victorian" is far too Anglocentric... in posh French, the late 1800's-early 1900's is given the flowery label of "la Belle Époque"; while here in French Canada, we tend to call it our more neutral translation for "Turn of the Century" ("le Tournant du siècle").
I know it's for comedic effect, by Marie Antoinette was incredibly philanthropic, so I highly doubt she would have seen herself as "doing nothing" to help the lot of the peasantry. She visited the homes of the poor to give them food, established organizations to support single mothers, and patronized hospitals and causes to help the elderly and the disabled. The problems faced by the people of France at the time weren't simply ones that she and her husband were really in a position to fix with just a wave of their hand, despite being "absolute" monarchs. As far as Marie Antoinette could tell, she was doing a huge amount of good for the people of France.
@@mikan1546 Though really, knowing that about her also highlights the ultimate uselessness of individual philanthropy in the face of huge institutional and systematic problems of society.
@@mikan1546 she also kidnapped children away from their families and then ignored them when she started having children of her own and/or they failed to be properly obsequious.
I really like how it's unclear if she's somehow aware of her own death and is irritated by the reminders or just feels like those questions are lowkey threats.
If it's any consolation, there's no evidence they ever took her dog away. None of the contemporary accounts even mention a dog! She did later request a mops dog (type of dog) from Austria though, which I think was sent to her.
Low key a really sad historical figure. Married off as a child, hated because she wasn't French, horribly out of touch to a point where any lie about her was believed, lost it all due to events out of her control and eventually beheaded while her children were still alive. Damn.
I think she was separated from her children long before her execution, and, to add to her woes, she was made aware that her young son was deliberately turned against her before she died. That had to hurt, which of course, was the point. I thought also, her son, as the heir to the throne, was neglected/ starved, and died very young after his parents' executions.
@@louisanow Oh yeah that was just off the top of my head (no pun intended) the stuff with her children is really depressing. Your gonna die after the kids were taken away and they will be taught you were awful. I'm not a monarchist, and broadly speaking I think the Revolution had some pretty justified reasons, but there was always a very misogynistic bent to how Marie was treated
but like .. she lived a life in luxury and extravagancy, she did not hold back from that, I'm sure that if she tried she would not be so blind to everything happening around her, like the poverty and everything. Great teachers from that time tried to make her change, but she would not listen to them.
@@louisanow he was gotten away to Austria at some point following his mother's execution and had children and was know as the uncrowned Louis XVI I. His son was actually crowned (for a very short time) as Louis XVIII and was the last King Louis. There are massive bits that I've skipped over, but yes, those people turned that innocent boy into a drunk at the age of 8.
Indeed, another of these and we'll have confirmation that a lovely 20th century apartment in Krakow would willingly be swapped for a 19th century gem in Paris.
The reaction to Queen Victoria…seeing a brain explode in real time was perfection. As with the growing frustration with questions about her head - absolutely glorious.
"So you're telling me that not only did my predecessors live in luxury with no issues whatsoever, there's a queen LATER than me that's considered the ultimate queen and loved by all, while I'm more villainized each passing decade? Great! *manic Renaissance laughter* "
I'm a bit confused, though. Marie Antionette would have been familiar with Queen Elizabeth I. and Katharina the Great. So, imagining another such Queen shouldn't have been too difficult.
Marie Antoinette was bestie with Queen Charlotte though. Queen Victoria was Queen Charlotte's the only legitimate grandchild. so it would be cute if she was like "ah Charlotte's granddaughter, nice"
As a french, I learned much of this bullshit in school in the 90s, that she caused the Revolution and that she ruined the entire economy of the country. As I learned more about her as an adult, I started to feel really bad for what happened to her (and even more to her children). So this was a very bittersweet skit, and very well well done! Also, I love that french/german accent you used, and that you emphasized the "R" in "french" when she explained she is Austrian so she speaks both german and french, this is such a cute touch because it did sound rather native xD
Yeah, I never learned that she caused the revolution when I was in school in France (very end of the 90' to early 2000). And it was a public school, maybe your teacher was prejudiced against her (not like the ensuing Terror was better). We did learn that the people were resentful against her, but as a symbol of the monarchy and the Ancien Régime as she was specifically targeted by libels. Also her French was near perfect, as her father was French: Francis the First, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, but before that Duke of Lorraine and the very son of Élisabeth d'Orléans (niece of Louis XIV).
Incredible what a différence a few years makes ! (I was born in 92) i was taught that the révolution was mostly against the nobility and the clergy and it truly became against the King and the Queen when they tried to escape to austria to get military help against the people... Then they both were done for... For their son and heir (and monarchy as a whole) it was more a ongoin debate. Trahison is not.
I learned the US was a factor in starting the French Revolution. France spent a ton of money it didn’t have to spare siding with the colonists. The increased deficit angered a lot of French.
@@PadishahAnshan The teachers I'm talking about here were primary schools teachers in the very early 90s, so people who didn't specifically study History, and were spilling back the Roman National they were taught 30 years prior. So yes, definitely very prejudiced against her but also Louis XVI (who was always described as a bumbling idiot and that was it). I was introduced to a bit of nuance when I went to "collège", and she wasn't much talked about, except to mention her lavish lifestyle and being out of touch (my History teacher that year still told us the "Let them eat cake" line like it was true), and we were missing a good chunk of economical context. Like for example, when mentionning what ruined the country, her spendings sounded on the same level as the money sent to the US. I'm glad to read that people in later years got better teachers than the ones I had, because as someone who loved History, I had to unlearn so much stuffs as an adult(and not just on the Revolution) it's kind of crazy.
Admittedly I don't know very much about it, but I'm of the understanding that misogyny and xenophobia largely drove the backlash against Marie, scapegoating her for the nation's problems which she actually had very little to do with, the hate being driven by the vicious false stories written about her in the libelles. In reality, she had no influence with state affairs and nothing to do with the budget, though she did spend extravagantly. Though I believe that to have been out of naivete and ignorance due to her upbringing, the idea that the money fuelling her lifestyle was a bottomless well and never having to worry about it running low or her spending having any consequences. I don't believe she saw any connection between the suffering of the masses and her lifestyle and didn't understand why she would be asked to live differently.
Marie Antoinette is one of my favorite historical figures because I think she is a great example of the nuance present in history that is often ignored. Yes her inaction and excess was a continuing factor to the French Revolution, but she herself had almost nothing to do with the policy and economic situation that caused the revolution in the first place. She is so unfairly portrayed as this historical villainess, when in reality she was more of a victim of circumstance. Also her aesthetic is just iconic.
If you want to know how Marie-Antoinette would have reigned (if she had the power) look at her brother, Jospeh II. The two had similar moderate views. He tried to make austria an "enlightened monarchy", where there's "everything for the people, nothing by the people". He experimented with freedom of press (he had to backpaddle instantly) and ended the execution of male homosexuals. Most of his reforms got canceled after his death.
i also don't get why the fashion industry is soo obsessed with victoria and the so called “victorian era”. she was such a horrible woman. most people don't know what she did to my country India and many other innocent British colonies. Compared to Queen Marie Antoinette, victoria is more like a horrible villainess. she even married her cousin and therefore she promoted incest. she also made so many patriarchal changes in her era. she banned gay marriage and considered homosexuality as a sin. she made a law that allowed to imprison gay men and kill them. seriously she was a brutal b*tch that didn't even deserve to be a queen in the first place. yet she called herself the “empress of india”
@@marmar-90 She was. "Let them eat cake" is something that is supposedly make her didn't care about the peasant under her, and this make her a villain. But then we learn she never said those line
Also correcting literaly republican nonsense. "Do you know that this king ate 5 homeless children a day? Well now widespread political violence, mass executions and economical collapse doesn't sound so bad!“
These are the best, Karolina! Thank you for making them and bringing attention to all the nonsense written about historical women. All of the lies and falsehoods are really just meant to make women seem weak and I love that you're correcting so many things they teach in school.
This Nonsens come from the same time or a little bit later. And it was made up about her because she came from Austria which was hated by the most french people. She was an easy target to destroy therefore.
For a non-native speaker of all three languages it's quite impressive how accurately you spoke English with a French accent that had a German accent of its own.
She truly was born in the wrong era, if Antoinette was a queen of France in any other era she could've been adored but she became queen when France was already on the way to revolution and wasn't very friendly with Austria , what happened to her kids and friends is truly disgusting , when i read about princess Lamballe's death i lost a part of my faith in humanity and gained a part at the same time because of her loyalty to her friend
You know what the scariest part is to me? That the French Revolution is considered to be a mostly positive event. And rightly so, it brought on a lot of good things and completly changed history in so many ways, and not just for the French; it inspired others too. And yet, this is the way humanity went about it. Tearing a family apart, executing people in cold blood, and locking children who had nothing to do with anything up in crap living conditions. And all because the adults of the family were put in the throne as teenagers and took the same inaction every king and queen had before them (which is a shitty thing, but still). This is what we look like when we're making positive change.
@@thebelen2359 My brother in Christ, before mourning the horrors of revolution, shed a few tears to the horrors that have brought it - the starvation and inadequate feudal opression by the aristocracy have taken much more lives than the so-callled "terreur", and mourning the idiotic and treacherous royalty is very hypocritical.
@@thebelen2359 Lmao. Try to look at it from peasants Point of view too. You think the revolution if failed the royals would have treated them any better? They will brutally repress them and kill them. And will place compromise terms with very little reforms.
I REALLY hope there will be enough ridiculous material in the comment section for you to make another reaction video coz the one that included comments about you as Marie Curie was just ✨splendid✨
I'd love a whole series of these on famous historical women just like this. The length of the video, the sass, the costume, everything is perfect 🤩 I could watch a hundred
I worked on the Marie-Antoinette TV Show in costume making, and started to learn more about her, and it completely changed my perspective. All the misogyny and xenophobia* she went through...
@ Historically and recently the meaning of race hasn't/doesn't always refer to skin colour. Oxford dictionary - "a group of people who share the same language, history, culture, etc." So yes the French and Austrians would be classed as different races.
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@@lollylula6399 That's a weird definition. "A group of people who share the same language, history, culture, etc." was always called a nation, not a race. But okay, if we use this definition, then she was a victim of racism.
I remember reading in a history book that she was not the aristocrat who said "Let them eat cake" but it was misattributed to her. This was hilarious! Job well done Karolina! I love your historical comedy! :)
I’ve heard that it was more like she just didn’t understand that there was no flour to make anything so it was more like “can’t they eat cake since there isn’t any bread?” But there could also be no cake if there was no flour. So literally what a teenager would say and not a selfish adult. I’ve always liked Marie Antoinette.
@@88hhg The quote was about brioche (paraphrased by me lol, "they don't have regular bread? Eat brioche!") which is why it's an out of touch comment, seeing as brioche is a fatty more expensive type of bread that the regular people definitely wouldn't have. BUT Marie Antoinette probably never said it and it's been misattributed to her. It was probably not even said during the revolution tbh.
@@88hhg These words were only attributed to her 50 years after her death. Originally they appeared in a Jean-Jaques Rousseau's book, written when Marie Antoinette was only 9 years old (though it was published when she was... 28, I think?). Rousseau also doesn't mention who the alleged woman who said it was supposed to be, he only wrote: "I remember a great princess..." - so he may have been repeating a circulating rumour about some previous aristocrat, which may or may not have been true, or even making up the story completely.
@@AW-uv3cb I read a very dry biography of Marie Antoinette by Antonia Frasier that said "Let them eat cake" had been used for a while pre-Marie to show out of touch aristocracy and had been attributed to her Aunt for years before Marie was even married.
My great(x6) grandma was Marie-Antoinette's last handmaid (Adélaïde Henriette Genêt), whom the queen used to call her "Lionne" (lioness). She jumped to her death rather than let herself be captured by the revolutionaries :(
People need to stop seeing her as a villain as much as they need to stop seeing her as the poor, innocent victim. She was hit hard by circumstances outside of her control and simultaneously immensely privileged and unwilling to change her ways.
Ive always been fascinated in french perceptions of Austria and Marie Antoinette during the revolution. A LOT of the hate she got was because she was Austrian, which were France's traditional rivals for power in Europe- factor in the corruption of the french court, and you've got a prefect scape goat! I lowkey wanted to write my senior thesis on this, but unfortunately my school would only allow "social" thesises on during my year, and my proposal was deemed more "political"
@@a.v.w.6453 don’t ask me- they picked the “theme” for the year. I had backup ideas (I ultimately wrote my thesis on the Iroquois confederacy’s relationship with both sides of the American revolution, which is still political, but was somehow deemed “social” enough for the theme), but *that* was the idea I was really excited about
I like how this video implies that she and her family are somehow alive and have a netflix account, like some kind of ghost in touch with today's culture. Great video as always!
I have to agree with Marie's response in how she didn't cause the revolution. I feel like her husband's grandpa and great-great-grandpa caused people to starve and her husband was meek enough to not outright murder all the revolutionaries in one go.
But didn't she insult people by suggesting that they should eat cake, which for some reason the French saw as le grande mistake (or whatever the French call a faux pas).
@@shoshimp1309 She and her husband were buried in a mass grave, but royalists moved their bodies to the Bourbon crypt in Saint Denis. Nothing terribly scandalous.
It’s nice to see that Marie Antoinette has been resurrected in time to celebrate her 230th anniversary of deat… Um, I mean… She was a stylish, beautiful queen 👸.
This is my favorite type of video Karolina does! But it's good that they're spread out so we cherish them when they DO get uploaded. Seriously hilarious!
i wish schools would show these kinds of things, like do an introduction for your class about french revolution let's say! kids actually learn some stuff, get entertained (which makes info easier to remember) and kids can relate to the content they get
love the colour scheme. And I have to say that this isn't the 1st time I've observed that the white powdered hair seems to bring out people's eye colour so nicely, Karolina's is such a lovely warm shade! :-) Great video!
Here's the thing, and I don't know if you did it on purpose or just got lucky, but your accent for MA is perfect, in that you are speaking English with a French accent modified by an eastern European accent. In MA's case, that would be Austria. Most people think of MA as French, which is sort of half right. Anyway, fabulous job !
i mean, she had approximately 0 choice in her life and is one of the most hated queens without reason. She literally could have done anything(in her power) and still get executed. Married at 15 in a court that hated her, in a very different culture, to a king that wasn't the brightest tool in the shed and was in the hands of powerful nobles.
The more you learn about her and the French Revolution, the more you realize she really had nothing to do with it. The king before her husband had squandered the royal coffers on his mistress and her husband was a total joke of a king who was controlled by the wealthy elite. Marie spent the normal amount of money a queen does, she wasn’t too extra extravagant, she was a homebody who focus on her kids, but she was hated by the court and the public immediately because she wasn’t French. And when the diamond necklaces scandal happened, the thief used Marie’s name and appearance. Even though she had done some philanthropic work here and there, the church and nobles didn’t want to help the poor and because she was queen it made her work seem like a charade, or even mocking them. The point is that the leaders of the revolution used this image of her “flaunting her money” to make people mad so she became a figurehead. When she was being tried for her “crimes”, they didn’t really have much to go on so they tortured and turned her eight year old son against her and made him “confess” that his mother raped him. They knew it was a lie, they didn’t care, because the point was to kill her because she had become a symbol of extravagance to them. I understand the reason why the French Revolution had to happen, but it’s also made me realize that “history is told in the eyes of the winner” is true even when the winners are believed to be the right side. War is war and horrible crimes are committed by each side, regardless of how nobles their cause is. Humanity is gross.
@@Eisenwulf666 Well, she was a massive influence in Louis’ political decisions, having pressured him to reject the anti-feudal decrees & the ousting of financial minister Calonne to usher in Brienne. She wasn’t entirely powerless, she was a figure of Austrian power and she was ofc educated in that regard. She was also the coordinator for their attempted escape, which was foiled by Louis insisting on a break. She had plenty of power, but not an official office.
@@yorukaadams940 you are right of course, but i was simplyfying for brevity. She was a bit screwed though, in all fairness and of course couldn't very well just divorce the king. Not an easy situation to be in.
@@Eisenwulf666 I don't have the numbers anymore, but I'm a history student and I had a whole course about her, and she did spend shit tons of money. I think it was mostly at the beginning, then she became wiser with age, but she definitely spent a lot of money. I need to find the numbers again because it was really shocking lmao
Love this! Quick thing though, the pug wasn't actually called "Mops" mops is just the name for a pug in several languages and Marie Antoinette owned more than one during her lifetime. Sadly she was never reunited with the first one :(
@@ОлегЕршов-м3с It wasn't the dog's name. I don't think the name of her pug (the first one at least) was documented. What is mentioned however is that she later asks to have pugs imported to France :)
@Pablo Like I said they are called mops in several, or more likely many, languages. The mistranslation into English however has made it pretty unclear to everyone if the dog was named "Mops" after the breed name or vise versa, thus the explanation. Also I do not speak or read Polish and there was no Polish wikipedia for pug or other quick translation that would tell me if it was the same in Polish :)
@@FuzzyKittenBoots Are you sure that it was not the dog's name? I found several articles in Russian which say that she had a pug that was named Mops/Mobs мопс по кличке "Мопс" pug with the name "Mops" One of the theories for the etymology behind the word "Mops" is that it comes from the word brick in old Dutch (mops=brick), describing silly squashed faces that pugs have lol
This was so fabulous. The podcast You're Wrong About by Sarah Marshall and at the time, Michael Hobbs did a wonderful show on Marie Antoinette and how wrong much of what we think we know about her is. It was a very interesting show. "Why are they so obsessed with my head" was the perfect exit line for the video.
@@larissapienaar2436 So you're a "you're wrong about" fan too? I love Sarah Marshall. The crossover episode with Maintenance Phase where they did the Scarsdale Diet murder is absolutely hilarious.
Can’t wait for the rest of the Marie’s to be interviewed! Since Marie-José is in exile I’m sure she has plenty of time for an interview. And Marie-Catherine, Baroness d'Aulnoy-the stories she could tell!
Honestly I never thought of things from her perspective. I didn't really think of her as the villain but a very prominent person people were angry on. It really makes you think over it. It's scary how many historical things have been altered so much via perspective..
This is better than most SNL skits, the outfit, the accent, the looking away to someone explaining things off-screen (who is also you), the running gag, the dark humor. This video has everything
Thank you, Karolina, for dressing Marie Antoinette more according to the period she lived in than every austrian documentory ever acieved and portraying her character more accurately than any movie/series ever (will). (except Rose of Versailles, of course- which is always excused as it triggered my passion for history) Please bring Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") in front of the camera, she suffered a lot on recent TV shows.
I often make assumptions on people based on their opinions of Marie Antoinette. If they see her as a villain who caused the entire revolution single-handedly, for example, I assume that I will be promptly leaving the conversation and finding someone new to talk to.
Honestly it reeks of misogyny every time. As if an entire revolution kicked off because they didn’t like one woman in a powdered wig. If that was the case, there’d be a revolution on every street.
It's never embarrassing to learn something new. It may be embarrassing to have ones argument debunked because one didn't have a piece of information, but the learning itself, you should never be embarrassed.
I was thinking about the Marie Curie video a few days ago and I can't describe how happy I was to see this today!! I love Karolina's skits, they are always a treat to see.
*"Every palace must have a Hall of Mirrors : gotta check yo'self before ya wreck yo'self!"* - Marie-Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne de Habsbourg-Lorraine, called "Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche" (1755-1793), Queen Consort of France.
I'm actually happy that Marie Antoinette 2006 movie and Anime Rose of Versailles proved that Marie Antoinette was not a bad queen, but just an innocent maiden. She already had a terrible time when she was just married to Louis 16, only when she was like 16. There was Madame DuBarry who hated her, she hadn't got a child till she had a coronation, most of the nobility bullies mocked her for being Austrian. Plus she hadn't got any good advice for being a good queen, neither before or after her coronation. However, she tried to be helpful for her royal subjects. Making a farm for peasents, telling how to raise potatoes, curing a farmer who got injured by accident, and more. I'm also sure that if Affair of the Necklace hadn't occured, which made wrong information about Marie, she at least could have gone back to Austria safely with her family. She hadn't got executed in my opinion. The wicked citizens murdered the queen.
I love the "WEIRD" format sooo much and this is a great follow up to the original Maria Skłodowska video! I watched that one soo many times and laughed so hard at it and this one brought me the same amount of joy! Great job on the questions and sarcasm, Karolina!
That was really funny, Karolina! You could perform this on a comedy show. Actually, it's much funnier and more clever than what I see on a lot of comedy shows. Well done!
This was hilarious. The intro and all of the head questions had me dead. When you can, you should totally review the new movie Babylon's costumes. I REALLY want to hear your thoughts on their 20s and early 30s clothes.
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I love how she knows what Netflix is but not the Victorian Era 😂
It makes sense because Netflix is full of French-language content, while the term "Victorian" is far too Anglocentric...
in posh French, the late 1800's-early 1900's is given the flowery label of "la Belle Époque"; while here in French Canada, we tend to call it our more neutral translation for "Turn of the Century" ("le Tournant du siècle").
That is a fun detail lol
Btw, she would totaly understand a concept of powerfull queen ruler, since her mother Maria Theresa was one.
Also how my first thought was "are there shows/ movies about marie on netflix" so her responding she has an account really threw me
@@jankopransky2551 Yes, yes, yes!
Marie Antoinette slowly coming to the realization that her inaction was exactly the problem is the funniest thing I've seen all week.
Yes! So perfect!
I know it's for comedic effect, by Marie Antoinette was incredibly philanthropic, so I highly doubt she would have seen herself as "doing nothing" to help the lot of the peasantry. She visited the homes of the poor to give them food, established organizations to support single mothers, and patronized hospitals and causes to help the elderly and the disabled. The problems faced by the people of France at the time weren't simply ones that she and her husband were really in a position to fix with just a wave of their hand, despite being "absolute" monarchs. As far as Marie Antoinette could tell, she was doing a huge amount of good for the people of France.
@@mikan1546 Though really, knowing that about her also highlights the ultimate uselessness of individual philanthropy in the face of huge institutional and systematic problems of society.
@@mikan1546 she also kidnapped children away from their families and then ignored them when she started having children of her own and/or they failed to be properly obsequious.
Well, kidnapped is harsh… more like purchased.
I really like how it's unclear if she's somehow aware of her own death and is irritated by the reminders or just feels like those questions are lowkey threats.
Yes!
Yeah, a fun detail! Like in some ghost movies where the ghosts are aware they are dead but don't remember how they died
Love how Marie Curie knew nothing about the current state of her legacy, but knew who Meryl Streep was.
She reminds of Hogwarts ghosts when you ask them about their death
She knows Netflix but not Victoria okay we play by Roger Rabbit rules (/ref)
I once got drunk at a party and cried about Marie Antoinette for 30 minutes while repeatedly shouting "They took her F***ing dog away!"
I had once a pms meltdown about her so can relate 🤓
If it's any consolation, there's no evidence they ever took her dog away. None of the contemporary accounts even mention a dog! She did later request a mops dog (type of dog) from Austria though, which I think was sent to her.
i got drunk and cried about joan of arc if that makes you feel better
I was sober when I cried about the 7th season of Game of Thrones
I had a mental breakdown about how they took her kids 💀
Low key a really sad historical figure. Married off as a child, hated because she wasn't French, horribly out of touch to a point where any lie about her was believed, lost it all due to events out of her control and eventually beheaded while her children were still alive. Damn.
Why are you so obsessed with her head, you make her depressed. Just stop it.
I think she was separated from her children long before her execution, and, to add to her woes, she was made aware that her young son was deliberately turned against her before she died. That had to hurt, which of course, was the point. I thought also, her son, as the heir to the throne, was neglected/ starved, and died very young after his parents' executions.
@@louisanow Oh yeah that was just off the top of my head (no pun intended) the stuff with her children is really depressing. Your gonna die after the kids were taken away and they will be taught you were awful. I'm not a monarchist, and broadly speaking I think the Revolution had some pretty justified reasons, but there was always a very misogynistic bent to how Marie was treated
but like .. she lived a life in luxury and extravagancy, she did not hold back from that, I'm sure that if she tried she would not be so blind to everything happening around her, like the poverty and everything. Great teachers from that time tried to make her change, but she would not listen to them.
@@louisanow he was gotten away to Austria at some point following his mother's execution and had children and was know as the uncrowned Louis XVI I. His son was actually crowned (for a very short time) as Louis XVIII and was the last King Louis. There are massive bits that I've skipped over, but yes, those people turned that innocent boy into a drunk at the age of 8.
After playing a Polish woman who became French, Karolina now rises to playing an Austrian woman who became French.
Indeed, another of these and we'll have confirmation that a lovely 20th century apartment in Krakow would willingly be swapped for a 19th century gem in Paris.
The female urge to become French.
Behind every french woman hides a central European woman.
@@Serpillard ...or any historical costuming fans. Regardless of gender, we have an inescapable urge to be french.
Next, a scot who became French: MARY OF SCOTS!
The reaction to Queen Victoria…seeing a brain explode in real time was perfection. As with the growing frustration with questions about her head - absolutely glorious.
"So you're telling me that not only did my predecessors live in luxury with no issues whatsoever, there's a queen LATER than me that's considered the ultimate queen and loved by all, while I'm more villainized each passing decade? Great! *manic Renaissance laughter* "
I'm a bit confused, though. Marie Antionette would have been familiar with Queen Elizabeth I. and Katharina the Great. So, imagining another such Queen shouldn't have been too difficult.
@@johannageisel5390 She was also the daughter of Marie Therese of Austria, who was a successful ruler as well.
@@johannageisel5390 It's a joke about how Victoria was the most beloved queen. Yes, there were other queens, but that's literally just the joke.
Marie Antoinette was bestie with Queen Charlotte though. Queen Victoria was Queen Charlotte's the only legitimate grandchild.
so it would be cute if she was like "ah Charlotte's granddaughter, nice"
I respect the person behind the camera telling her to skip any questions she's not comfortable answering
And even then there were so many mean questions that she left 😂
Still didn’t take any beheading questions out. Was just like “you can skip them *hands her another card knowing it has a beheading question on it*”
As a french, I learned much of this bullshit in school in the 90s, that she caused the Revolution and that she ruined the entire economy of the country. As I learned more about her as an adult, I started to feel really bad for what happened to her (and even more to her children). So this was a very bittersweet skit, and very well well done! Also, I love that french/german accent you used, and that you emphasized the "R" in "french" when she explained she is Austrian so she speaks both german and french, this is such a cute touch because it did sound rather native xD
Yeah, I never learned that she caused the revolution when I was in school in France (very end of the 90' to early 2000). And it was a public school, maybe your teacher was prejudiced against her (not like the ensuing Terror was better). We did learn that the people were resentful against her, but as a symbol of the monarchy and the Ancien Régime as she was specifically targeted by libels.
Also her French was near perfect, as her father was French: Francis the First, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, but before that Duke of Lorraine and the very son of Élisabeth d'Orléans (niece of Louis XIV).
Incredible what a différence a few years makes ! (I was born in 92) i was taught that the révolution was mostly against the nobility and the clergy and it truly became against the King and the Queen when they tried to escape to austria to get military help against the people... Then they both were done for... For their son and heir (and monarchy as a whole) it was more a ongoin debate. Trahison is not.
I learned the US was a factor in starting the French Revolution. France spent a ton of money it didn’t have to spare siding with the colonists. The increased deficit angered a lot of French.
@@PadishahAnshan The teachers I'm talking about here were primary schools teachers in the very early 90s, so people who didn't specifically study History, and were spilling back the Roman National they were taught 30 years prior. So yes, definitely very prejudiced against her but also Louis XVI (who was always described as a bumbling idiot and that was it).
I was introduced to a bit of nuance when I went to "collège", and she wasn't much talked about, except to mention her lavish lifestyle and being out of touch (my History teacher that year still told us the "Let them eat cake" line like it was true), and we were missing a good chunk of economical context. Like for example, when mentionning what ruined the country, her spendings sounded on the same level as the money sent to the US. I'm glad to read that people in later years got better teachers than the ones I had, because as someone who loved History, I had to unlearn so much stuffs as an adult(and not just on the Revolution) it's kind of crazy.
Admittedly I don't know very much about it, but I'm of the understanding that misogyny and xenophobia largely drove the backlash against Marie, scapegoating her for the nation's problems which she actually had very little to do with, the hate being driven by the vicious false stories written about her in the libelles. In reality, she had no influence with state affairs and nothing to do with the budget, though she did spend extravagantly. Though I believe that to have been out of naivete and ignorance due to her upbringing, the idea that the money fuelling her lifestyle was a bottomless well and never having to worry about it running low or her spending having any consequences. I don't believe she saw any connection between the suffering of the masses and her lifestyle and didn't understand why she would be asked to live differently.
omg the acting, the accent, she's really got it all folks. amazing queen
her accent is both french and german, amazing acting, where's her oscar?
Karolina is the only person in the world who can have Polish British French and German accents all at the same time ❤
@@kacpilee6969 I wish I could hear a Russian accent =)
I've never felt more vulnerability radiating from Marie Antoinette. That was very well acted.
It must have been quite frustrating to know all your predecessors could live in the excess without *that* happening to them, tho 😂
Antoinette avait résolu,
De nous faire tomber sur le cul;
Mais le coup a manqué,
Elle a le nez cassé!
Marie Antoinette is one of my favorite historical figures because I think she is a great example of the nuance present in history that is often ignored. Yes her inaction and excess was a continuing factor to the French Revolution, but she herself had almost nothing to do with the policy and economic situation that caused the revolution in the first place. She is so unfairly portrayed as this historical villainess, when in reality she was more of a victim of circumstance.
Also her aesthetic is just iconic.
If you want to know how Marie-Antoinette would have reigned (if she had the power) look at her brother, Jospeh II. The two had similar moderate views. He tried to make austria an "enlightened monarchy", where there's "everything for the people, nothing by the people". He experimented with freedom of press (he had to backpaddle instantly) and ended the execution of male homosexuals. Most of his reforms got canceled after his death.
Yes!! This comment
i also don't get why the fashion industry is soo obsessed with victoria and the so called “victorian era”. she was such a horrible woman. most people don't know what she did to my country India and many other innocent British colonies. Compared to Queen Marie Antoinette, victoria is more like a horrible villainess. she even married her cousin and therefore she promoted incest. she also made so many patriarchal changes in her era. she banned gay marriage and considered homosexuality as a sin. she made a law that allowed to imprison gay men and kill them. seriously she was a brutal b*tch that didn't even deserve to be a queen in the first place. yet she called herself the “empress of india”
Well.... She's never been portrayed as a historical villain
@@marmar-90 She was. "Let them eat cake" is something that is supposedly make her didn't care about the peasant under her, and this make her a villain.
But then we learn she never said those line
love these "correcting historical myths about women" types of videos 💕
Yesss, we need more of that!
Also correcting literaly republican nonsense.
"Do you know that this king ate 5 homeless children a day? Well now widespread political violence, mass executions and economical collapse doesn't sound so bad!“
Yes
Marie Antoinette: "I don't understand." Perfect
To be fair, I think Marie would have rather said: "I do not understand."😁
I also don’t understand 😂
Marie: “I quite like serial killer documentaries”
Maximilien Robespierre: *heavy breathing*
These are the best, Karolina! Thank you for making them and bringing attention to all the nonsense written about historical women. All of the lies and falsehoods are really just meant to make women seem weak and I love that you're correcting so many things they teach in school.
This Nonsens come from the same time or a little bit later. And it was made up about her because she came from Austria which was hated by the most french people. She was an easy target to destroy therefore.
@André Coelho
It's gonna be difficult finding sources that don't portray her as an exotic temptress whose only quality was her looks.
@@rainpooper7088 That can literally be the video though. Like "you think that's all I was? Damn."
@André Coelho Which one? There were about 7 of them in that dynasty.
They were meant to make HER look weak
"they liked her? why?" just killed me. Very nuanced humor, and well researched too. Loved it,
For a non-native speaker of all three languages it's quite impressive how accurately you spoke English with a French accent that had a German accent of its own.
She truly was born in the wrong era, if Antoinette was a queen of France in any other era she could've been adored but she became queen when France was already on the way to revolution and wasn't very friendly with Austria , what happened to her kids and friends is truly disgusting , when i read about princess Lamballe's death i lost a part of my faith in humanity and gained a part at the same time because of her loyalty to her friend
That took the phrase "born in the wrong generation" to a whole new level
You know what the scariest part is to me? That the French Revolution is considered to be a mostly positive event. And rightly so, it brought on a lot of good things and completly changed history in so many ways, and not just for the French; it inspired others too.
And yet, this is the way humanity went about it. Tearing a family apart, executing people in cold blood, and locking children who had nothing to do with anything up in crap living conditions. And all because the adults of the family were put in the throne as teenagers and took the same inaction every king and queen had before them (which is a shitty thing, but still). This is what we look like when we're making positive change.
@@thebelen2359 My brother in Christ, before mourning the horrors of revolution, shed a few tears to the horrors that have brought it - the starvation and inadequate feudal opression by the aristocracy have taken much more lives than the so-callled "terreur", and mourning the idiotic and treacherous royalty is very hypocritical.
@@thebelen2359 Lmao. Try to look at it from peasants Point of view too. You think the revolution if failed the royals would have treated them any better? They will brutally repress them and kill them. And will place compromise terms with very little reforms.
@@ahoda6149 finally someone in this comment section with some true sense about this event
As a proud french, I loooved this impression of Marie-Antoinette, it was both sad and funny.
Karolina you're the best 🥰
Right? She was quite moving.
Loved the dark humour, but I also loved how you tried to debunk the myths.
I REALLY hope there will be enough ridiculous material in the comment section for you to make another reaction video coz the one that included comments about you as Marie Curie was just ✨splendid✨
Same it was hilarious how many people didn't realize that it was satirical
I was looking for this comment!! (Or one of the ridiculous ones you mention, I was hoping to see some for myself 😂)
I still think the Marie Curie one was the peak of this genre.
I'd love a whole series of these on famous historical women just like this. The length of the video, the sass, the costume, everything is perfect 🤩 I could watch a hundred
The costume and styling were flawless ❤
One Thousand Times, Yeeeeesssssss!!!
Most of this channel is about creative excuses to dress up in period costume.
I wonder if she works in movies, or something ...
Yeahhh, would love to see Henry Viii's Wives Next
I worked on the Marie-Antoinette TV Show in costume making, and started to learn more about her, and it completely changed my perspective. All the misogyny and xenophobia* she went through...
I don't think she went through racism. She was a victim of prejudice, bigotry and French nationalism
@@gnostic268 Xenophobia from her own court, I guess that's what they mean by racism.
You think that Austrians and French are different races?
@ Historically and recently the meaning of race hasn't/doesn't always refer to skin colour. Oxford dictionary - "a group of people who share the same language, history, culture, etc." So yes the French and Austrians would be classed as different races.
@@lollylula6399 That's a weird definition. "A group of people who share the same language, history, culture, etc." was always called a nation, not a race.
But okay, if we use this definition, then she was a victim of racism.
The reaction to the death questions get me every time
I remember reading in a history book that she was not the aristocrat who said "Let them eat cake" but it was misattributed to her. This was hilarious! Job well done Karolina! I love your historical comedy! :)
I’ve heard that it was more like she just didn’t understand that there was no flour to make anything so it was more like “can’t they eat cake since there isn’t any bread?” But there could also be no cake if there was no flour. So literally what a teenager would say and not a selfish adult. I’ve always liked Marie Antoinette.
@@88hhg The quote was about brioche (paraphrased by me lol, "they don't have regular bread? Eat brioche!") which is why it's an out of touch comment, seeing as brioche is a fatty more expensive type of bread that the regular people definitely wouldn't have. BUT Marie Antoinette probably never said it and it's been misattributed to her. It was probably not even said during the revolution tbh.
@@88hhg These words were only attributed to her 50 years after her death. Originally they appeared in a Jean-Jaques Rousseau's book, written when Marie Antoinette was only 9 years old (though it was published when she was... 28, I think?). Rousseau also doesn't mention who the alleged woman who said it was supposed to be, he only wrote: "I remember a great princess..." - so he may have been repeating a circulating rumour about some previous aristocrat, which may or may not have been true, or even making up the story completely.
@@AW-uv3cb I read a very dry biography of Marie Antoinette by Antonia Frasier that said "Let them eat cake" had been used for a while pre-Marie to show out of touch aristocracy and had been attributed to her Aunt for years before Marie was even married.
My great(x6) grandma was Marie-Antoinette's last handmaid (Adélaïde Henriette Genêt), whom the queen used to call her "Lionne" (lioness). She jumped to her death rather than let herself be captured by the revolutionaries :(
I love watching a video of a Polish woman playing a French queen doing Google search interview in English.
People need to stop seeing her as a villain as much as they need to stop seeing her as the poor, innocent victim. She was hit hard by circumstances outside of her control and simultaneously immensely privileged and unwilling to change her ways.
This is really well done.
"why is everyone so obsessed with my head" bless her heart 😭
SHE ACTUALLY GOT TO ANSWER A COUPLE GOOD QUESTIONS!! it's a revolution people
Too soon.
Ive always been fascinated in french perceptions of Austria and Marie Antoinette during the revolution. A LOT of the hate she got was because she was Austrian, which were France's traditional rivals for power in Europe- factor in the corruption of the french court, and you've got a prefect scape goat! I lowkey wanted to write my senior thesis on this, but unfortunately my school would only allow "social" thesises on during my year, and my proposal was deemed more "political"
What isn't political about social issues? Your school was dumb.
@@a.v.w.6453 don’t ask me- they picked the “theme” for the year. I had backup ideas (I ultimately wrote my thesis on the Iroquois confederacy’s relationship with both sides of the American revolution, which is still political, but was somehow deemed “social” enough for the theme), but *that* was the idea I was really excited about
I like how this video implies that she and her family are somehow alive and have a netflix account, like some kind of ghost in touch with today's culture. Great video as always!
I have to agree with Marie's response in how she didn't cause the revolution. I feel like her husband's grandpa and great-great-grandpa caused people to starve and her husband was meek enough to not outright murder all the revolutionaries in one go.
But didn't she insult people by suggesting that they should eat cake, which for some reason the French saw as le grande mistake (or whatever the French call a faux pas).
@@Myndir No, that story is fake.
@@Myndir It's more of a myth made by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in one of his books rather than as an actual historical fact
@@Myndir As mentioned in the video, that came from a book that was actually pseudo historical
@@Myndir “…or whatever the French people call a faux pas”. 🥹🤦♀️
The genuine confusion and disappointment with the fascination about her head's whereabouts is so palpable 😅
Ok but what DID happen to her head?? I need to know now!
@@shoshimp1309It got waxed before it was trown into a mass grave together with the rest of her body
@@shoshimp1309 She and her husband were buried in a mass grave, but royalists moved their bodies to the Bourbon crypt in Saint Denis. Nothing terribly scandalous.
@@manderly33 Did they move their heads as well?
i absolutely love this. please do more of these kind of videos.
It’s nice to see that Marie Antoinette has been resurrected in time to celebrate her 230th anniversary of deat… Um, I mean… She was a stylish, beautiful queen 👸.
I love Producer Karolina desperately keeping Marie calm
The writing, costume, makeup, acting, everything about this is top-notch. Love it!
I played Marie Antoinette in a long-running play in New York. Your portrayal is lovely! Great work!
*”Why is everyone so obsessed with my head-“*
“It’s just what people search you know-“
This is my favorite type of video Karolina does! But it's good that they're spread out so we cherish them when they DO get uploaded. Seriously hilarious!
i wish schools would show these kinds of things, like do an introduction for your class about french revolution let's say! kids actually learn some stuff, get entertained (which makes info easier to remember) and kids can relate to the content they get
I love how this video is both entertaining and educational at the same time
I loved her reaction when hearing about Queen Victoria. That little eye twitch was perfection.
This is peak historical comedy, and I am here for it.
Queen of comedy is back at it again (no I don't mean Marie Antoinette lol).
Please make more of these historical figures answering Google questions!!
I'm here for the "You're not Marie Antoinette!" and "I thought Marie Antoinette was dead, you go kween!" comments.
love the colour scheme. And I have to say that this isn't the 1st time I've observed that the white powdered hair seems to bring out people's eye colour so nicely, Karolina's is such a lovely warm shade! :-) Great video!
Marie: *dodging questions about her head*
People asking those questions: „...so no head?”
That's a bit rude indeed to ask those questions off her!. She really thinks it's just uncomfortable for her to answer the questions
Here's the thing, and I don't know if you did it on purpose or just got lucky, but your accent for MA is perfect, in that you are speaking English with a French accent modified by an eastern European accent. In MA's case, that would be Austria. Most people think of MA as French, which is sort of half right. Anyway, fabulous job !
Watching this made me genuinely feel so bad for Marie Antoinette, didn’t know _too_ too much about her before but now I feel sympathy for her lol
i mean, she had approximately 0 choice in her life and is one of the most hated queens without reason. She literally could have done anything(in her power) and still get executed. Married at 15 in a court that hated her, in a very different culture, to a king that wasn't the brightest tool in the shed and was in the hands of powerful nobles.
The more you learn about her and the French Revolution, the more you realize she really had nothing to do with it. The king before her husband had squandered the royal coffers on his mistress and her husband was a total joke of a king who was controlled by the wealthy elite. Marie spent the normal amount of money a queen does, she wasn’t too extra extravagant, she was a homebody who focus on her kids, but she was hated by the court and the public immediately because she wasn’t French. And when the diamond necklaces scandal happened, the thief used Marie’s name and appearance. Even though she had done some philanthropic work here and there, the church and nobles didn’t want to help the poor and because she was queen it made her work seem like a charade, or even mocking them. The point is that the leaders of the revolution used this image of her “flaunting her money” to make people mad so she became a figurehead. When she was being tried for her “crimes”, they didn’t really have much to go on so they tortured and turned her eight year old son against her and made him “confess” that his mother raped him. They knew it was a lie, they didn’t care, because the point was to kill her because she had become a symbol of extravagance to them. I understand the reason why the French Revolution had to happen, but it’s also made me realize that “history is told in the eyes of the winner” is true even when the winners are believed to be the right side. War is war and horrible crimes are committed by each side, regardless of how nobles their cause is. Humanity is gross.
@@Eisenwulf666 Well, she was a massive influence in Louis’ political decisions, having pressured him to reject the anti-feudal decrees & the ousting of financial minister Calonne to usher in Brienne. She wasn’t entirely powerless, she was a figure of Austrian power and she was ofc educated in that regard. She was also the coordinator for their attempted escape, which was foiled by Louis insisting on a break. She had plenty of power, but not an official office.
@@yorukaadams940 you are right of course, but i was simplyfying for brevity. She was a bit screwed though, in all fairness and of course couldn't very well just divorce the king. Not an easy situation to be in.
@@Eisenwulf666 I don't have the numbers anymore, but I'm a history student and I had a whole course about her, and she did spend shit tons of money. I think it was mostly at the beginning, then she became wiser with age, but she definitely spent a lot of money. I need to find the numbers again because it was really shocking lmao
Love this! Quick thing though, the pug wasn't actually called "Mops" mops is just the name for a pug in several languages and Marie Antoinette owned more than one during her lifetime. Sadly she was never reunited with the first one :(
Thanks for clarification, I immediately went to check if the Russian name if that breed is related to Marie Antoinette's dog's name.
"Ein Leben ohne Mops ist möglich, aber sinnlos." - Loriot
@@ОлегЕршов-м3с It wasn't the dog's name. I don't think the name of her pug (the first one at least) was documented. What is mentioned however is that she later asks to have pugs imported to France :)
@Pablo Like I said they are called mops in several, or more likely many, languages. The mistranslation into English however has made it pretty unclear to everyone if the dog was named "Mops" after the breed name or vise versa, thus the explanation. Also I do not speak or read Polish and there was no Polish wikipedia for pug or other quick translation that would tell me if it was the same in Polish :)
@@FuzzyKittenBoots Are you sure that it was not the dog's name? I found several articles in Russian which say that she had a pug that was named Mops/Mobs
мопс по кличке "Мопс"
pug with the name "Mops"
One of the theories for the etymology behind the word "Mops" is that it comes from the word brick in old Dutch (mops=brick), describing silly squashed faces that pugs have lol
Wait... did she really call her pug "pug"?
Also love how Karolina tries to do a French and German accent at the same time :3
She did, but she got Mops when she was essentially a child so it makes sense
This was so fabulous. The podcast You're Wrong About by Sarah Marshall and at the time, Michael Hobbs did a wonderful show on Marie Antoinette and how wrong much of what we think we know about her is. It was a very interesting show. "Why are they so obsessed with my head" was the perfect exit line for the video.
Been looking for this comment! ❤
@@larissapienaar2436 So you're a "you're wrong about" fan too? I love Sarah Marshall. The crossover episode with Maintenance Phase where they did the Scarsdale Diet murder is absolutely hilarious.
@@bluewren65 They’re so good. Maintenance Phase is also brilliant.
"Let 'em eat cake!"-Marie Antoinette fans, who liked her *cakes*, but got lost in historical translation
Thank you TIRED for another excellent episode!
Her face whenever they talk about her death 😭
Can’t wait for the rest of the Marie’s to be interviewed! Since Marie-José is in exile I’m sure she has plenty of time for an interview. And Marie-Catherine, Baroness d'Aulnoy-the stories she could tell!
I would LOVE to see you do more of these! The Marie Curie one was great, and the slow realisation M.A. has about her priviledged inaction was so good
Ah yes, Karolina doing another iconic video, couldn't ask for better for the day! Thank you for your hard work💞
I love how you got the accent between Austrian and French. Not easy
I LOVE LOVE LOVE how your accent is a mix of German and French. Excellent, top shelf character work. No notes!
"We did nothing! . . . . . . . maybe that's why . . . " brilliant.
Oh please continue this historical figure does autocomplete interview. I loved the Marie Curie and now the Marie Antoinette.
We definetely need more videos like this 💀 I think Anna Boleyn one would also be cool
Honestly I never thought of things from her perspective. I didn't really think of her as the villain but a very prominent person people were angry on. It really makes you think over it. It's scary how many historical things have been altered so much via perspective..
*Sees Karolina as French Aristocrat* Now that's some cake
This is better than most SNL skits, the outfit, the accent, the looking away to someone explaining things off-screen (who is also you), the running gag, the dark humor. This video has everything
Poor Marie Antoinette, all she wanted to do was DO NOTHING 😭
Relatable.
@@Artur_M. So relatable
omg I love when you do these. kinda wanna see a historical author next. like one of the bronte sisters or jane austen or mary shelley.
Thank you, Karolina, for dressing Marie Antoinette more according to the period she lived in than every austrian documentory ever acieved and portraying her character more accurately than any movie/series ever (will). (except Rose of Versailles, of course- which is always excused as it triggered my passion for history) Please bring Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") in front of the camera, she suffered a lot on recent TV shows.
I love how Karolina doing such a detailed go at this accent(s) on top of her own, in an entire other language, ends up sounding a bit Welsh 😂 🏴
I feel like you got into her shoes and delivered her personality so well, Karolina! We need more.
I’m so pleased you brought the famous Madame Antoinette alive again. It’s a shame she never really had a bright future “ahead”
Badum tsssss
ur done
I often make assumptions on people based on their opinions of Marie Antoinette. If they see her as a villain who caused the entire revolution single-handedly, for example, I assume that I will be promptly leaving the conversation and finding someone new to talk to.
Honestly it reeks of misogyny every time. As if an entire revolution kicked off because they didn’t like one woman in a powdered wig. If that was the case, there’d be a revolution on every street.
😂😂
Her last words, for the record, were 'pardon me sir, i did not mean to do it' to the executioner, whose foot she stepped on.
*why is everyone so obsessed with my head*
- Marie Antoinette 2023
Ok, so now I have to know what happened to Marie Antoinette's head.
see I'm like third poster, and I also posted this. WHERE IS HER HEAD? We could google but why not have Marie herself tell us?
Same!! Then google put me onto what happened to Mops
So after the execution her entire body was put in a mass grave and after 22 years she was buried in Basilica of St Denis.
These videos really show off your comedic timing :D and I always (embarrassingly) learn something new
It's never embarrassing to learn something new. It may be embarrassing to have ones argument debunked because one didn't have a piece of information, but the learning itself, you should never be embarrassed.
tis peak comedic and educational historical content milady thank you
I was thinking about the Marie Curie video a few days ago and I can't describe how happy I was to see this today!! I love Karolina's skits, they are always a treat to see.
I'm so glad we finally have a sequel
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! The auto complete interviews are my absolute favorite I freaking love it when you do these!!!!
What a great way to learn about historic figures. I think to make a video like this would be great as a history assignment in schools!
*"Every palace must have a Hall of Mirrors : gotta check yo'self before ya wreck yo'self!"*
- Marie-Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne de Habsbourg-Lorraine, called "Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche" (1755-1793), Queen Consort of France.
I'm actually happy that Marie Antoinette 2006 movie and Anime Rose of Versailles proved that Marie Antoinette was not a bad queen, but just an innocent maiden. She already had a terrible time when she was just married to Louis 16, only when she was like 16. There was Madame DuBarry who hated her, she hadn't got a child till she had a coronation, most of the nobility bullies mocked her for being Austrian. Plus she hadn't got any good advice for being a good queen, neither before or after her coronation. However, she tried to be helpful for her royal subjects. Making a farm for peasents, telling how to raise potatoes, curing a farmer who got injured by accident, and more. I'm also sure that if Affair of the Necklace hadn't occured, which made wrong information about Marie, she at least could have gone back to Austria safely with her family.
She hadn't got executed in my opinion. The wicked citizens murdered the queen.
When older she had more sense but was too late by then
I love the "WEIRD" format sooo much and this is a great follow up to the original Maria Skłodowska video! I watched that one soo many times and laughed so hard at it and this one brought me the same amount of joy! Great job on the questions and sarcasm, Karolina!
That was really funny, Karolina! You could perform this on a comedy show. Actually, it's much funnier and more clever than what I see on a lot of comedy shows. Well done!
Okay, this was excellent. Your acting was top notch. Loved the script.
Your mix of a french and austrian accent is perfectly on point !
Love the accuracy on the accent.
It would be iconic if you said “I don’t know her” à lá Mariah when speaking of Victoria 😂
I love your sketches, and the way Marie Antoinette answered these questions (she is clearly surprised by the fact that her head has such popularity)
I learned more about her in this video than I did in school. Honestly though I love how you humanize historical figures in these skits!
''Is marie antoinette on Netflix?''
''Yes I do have an account''
THIS BIT SENT ME 💀
Waiting for someone to think you're actually Marie Antionette.
“We did nothing… maybe that’s why…” I f*cking love it!
This was hilarious. The intro and all of the head questions had me dead. When you can, you should totally review the new movie Babylon's costumes. I REALLY want to hear your thoughts on their 20s and early 30s clothes.
OMG I REALLY HOPE YOU'D MAKE THIS A SERIES AND TRY OTHER FIGURES TOO 😭