The series starts next week in France

After our visit to the royal mistress Diane de Poitiers and then to The Three Musketeers, we are finishing our glorious French week with her royal majesty MARIE ANTOINETTE who has just left the imperial palace Schonbrunn in Vienna and is off to join the royal court in Paris where she is expected to arrive October 31st with new historical series which will air on Canal + and then on BBC 2 in United Kingdom later this year and BBC First in Australia basically almost everywhere where Versailles aired as well. The good news for all you Americans is that the series has been sold to PBS last week as well. The eight part series, starring Emilia Schule in the lead role follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. Louis Cunningham stars as the dauphin and the future King Louis XVI and James Purefoy as his father Louis XV who at some point tried to have sex with his new daughter in law! The scandal!  Marthe Keller, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Gaia Weiss as the king's favourite and professional whore Madame du Barry with whom Marie did not get on well, Crystal Sheperd, Caroline Piette, Oscar Lesage, Roxane Duran, Liah O’Prey, Jonas Bloquet, Nathan Willcocks, Laura Benson, Nicola Perot, Paul Bandey, Maximilien Seweryn also star in the international cast.

 

was barely 14 years old when she left Austria and her mother empress Maria Theresa to marry the Dauphin in France. She is still a stubborn and dissipated young child who must comply with French rules, which are numerous and complicated. The young princess quickly suffers from not being able to live her life as she sees fit. She is constantly under pressure to carry on the Bourbon line. A mission more complicated than expected: even if the relationship between Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI improves over time, it will take them seven years to consummate their marriage. From the young runner-up to the queen of style, a true fashion icon, Marie Antoinette quickly impresses with her charisma and naturalness. She will gradually understand the codes and secrets of the French court and completely recreate Versailles in her image! But her success stirs up jealousy and rivalry. Defamatory pamphlets and persistent rumors about her private life undermine her reputation. It will take a lot of courage to defeat her numerous enemies at the Versailles court.