Your next stop: Versailles.

Before you get there watch this:




Then read this:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/movies/13mari.html

Keep this paragraph from the article in mind:

Ms. Coppola, who drew upon Antonia Fraser’s revisionist biography of Marie Antoinette, “Marie Antoinette: The Journey,” in preparing her script, is less a historian than a pop anthropologist, and her portrait of the young queen, played with wily charm by Kirsten Dunst, is not so much a psychological portrait as a tableau of mood and atmosphere. Highly theatrical and yet also intimate and informal, “Marie Antoinette” lets its story slink almost casually through its lovingly composed and rendered images.


While the film may be an American take on a European Monarch for me the film Marie Antoinette was the perfect way to acquire a more intimate understanding of Marie Antoinette compared to what I learned about her in my AP European History course. Keep this in mind as you make your way to Versailles... more on that in my next post.