http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/ Images of Marie Antoinette Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:30:08 GMT Jay Bernson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9285 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9285 There are many words that I would use to describe Marie Antoinette. Misguided, misunderstood, doomed, fashion leader, patron of the arts, kind, simplistic, Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:45:10 GMT madame_antoine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9284 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9284 Hi Janet, You know me better than most here and know very well why I made the remark which I did. Yes, I am an intuitive, yes, I am an empath, yes, I do Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:39:40 GMT janet fauble http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9283 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9283 Hello George,   Thanks for the information about Rousseau because I had not thought of it that way, and perhaps you are correct in realizing that the more Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:39:30 GMT Elissa Villines-Shaw http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9282 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9282 Hello all! Here is my take on the whole En Gaulle.....by the end of 1781 MA had given birth to a child which caused her to lose the majority of her hair, thus Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:37:28 GMT ethereal04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9281 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9281 Hi Janet I agree with what you say. The nostalgic "return to nature" sentiment that many aristocrats expressed at that time means Antoinette was following in Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:51:35 GMT George Caffine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9280 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9280 From one who only has a partial hold on the stories that were told: revolution was already in the air when Marie-Antoinette moved to France. Whatever she did, Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:03:48 GMT janet fauble http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9279 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9279 HI Ethereal,   I have been cogitating about this ever since I read it, and I just read Mme. Antoine's response to it as well.  I do not really know why she Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:03:21 GMT janet fauble http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9278 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9278 Hello Patricia,   You sound very certain of your facts.   Without being impertinent, how do you know this?  I have time-tunneled into the past on certain Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:30:14 GMT madame_antoine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9277 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9277 I don't believe arrogant is a fair term to use regarding Antoinette. Arrogant is a word that her despisers would have used towards her. Antoinette was both Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:49:44 GMT ethereal04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9276 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9276 Hi Janet, I don't think Antoinette was still naive in 1780's. Self assured and arrogant in the best sense of the word as to her importance in the scheme of Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:40:47 GMT Axel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9275 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9275 "Empress Josephine was a style maven of her time. According to Dr. Alice Mackrell in her book "Art and Fashion" (Batsford Books, 2005) , Empress Josephine was Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:43:36 GMT janet fauble http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9274 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9274 Hello Ethereal, I do not believe it to have been stupid to have shown the painting in a white muslim gown but possibly a bit naive.  She probably had not Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:43:04 GMT janet fauble http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9273 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9273 Thanks, Patricia, as I believe that inner beauty is something that radiated from Antoinette when she was with her children.  One of my very favorite paintings Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:19:34 GMT madame_antoine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9272 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9272 Hello Janet:) I agree with you that I don't believe Antoinette had any desire to be considered a great beauty. I believe this is just gossip which was planted Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:16:54 GMT ethereal04 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9271 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Images_of_Marie_Antoinette/message/9271 One has to wonder whether Antoinette perhaps deserves the epithet "monumentally stupid" as one writer commented. Whilst I do not accept the image of Marie