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Ask the Queen: How a queen gets noticed
Each week, the former queen of France moderates an advice column on this site, doling out wisdom based on her wide experience. to have the queen field your question, email whatwouldmarieantoinettedo at gmail dot com. Your majesty, I am short … Continue reading
Posted in Advice, Get respect, marie-antoinette, The Good Life, versailles, WWMAD
Tagged Advice, France, Get noticed, Louis XV, Louis XVI, marie antoinette, musings, redingote, thoughts, Trianon, versailles
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What things cost at Versailles
Ever wonder how you’d make out in 18th century France with a pitiable layman’s salary? Here’s your chance to see what the good life (and the regular life) actually cost. Priest’s salary, 250 livres Princesse Lamballe’s salary as a superintendent, … Continue reading
Posted in Life at Court, marie-antoinette, money, The Good Life, versailles, What things cost
Tagged 18th century, France, history, what things cost
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Ask the Queen: Dealing with rude dinner party guests
Does the sky seem gray? Does food not taste as good as it has before? If you feel you miss some indescribable something it is likely because you have not come to Marie Antoinette for advice. Use your computing machine … Continue reading
WWMAD: There are no small jobs, just small courtiers
Everyone who is anyone knows that on Sundays, Marie Antoinette answers offers guidance and advice in this very space. To have your own question answered, please email her at whatwouldmarieantoinettedo at gmail dot com. My Queen, I am a volunteer … Continue reading
High tea, Rocophilia, Android Marie, and one more fabulous Marie Antoinette Halloween Costume!
Hello, lovelies. Ready for the weekend? Not before I send you all the news that’s fit for a queen. Today’s links travel world and includes everything from hot pink hair, to 18th century robots to events worth planning a trip … Continue reading
Posted in appearance, ballet, book, Dress and style, dress code, Events, exhibits, exhibits, france, halloween, high tea, Interweb Marie, jennifer donnelly, lectures, Louis XVII, marie-antoinette, Modern Maries, museum events, music, Reader's Costumes, Sweets, The Good Life, versailles, WWMAD
Tagged Austria, Buy Me!, Columbia University, food, France, frick, high tea, lifestyle, marie antoinette, Modern Marie, New York, Rococophilia, sydney australia, travel, Versailles exhibit, westin, what would marie antoinette do, WWMAD
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Marie tells a reader how to be gorgeous, stay slim, and how to have her cake and eat it too
In this Sunday Series, Marie Antoinette takes a break from her other wordly duties to guide mortals on their Earthly way. To send Marie your own question or dilemma, write to whatwouldmarieantoinettedo at gmail dot com. My Dearest Queen, Despite … Continue reading
Posted in appearance, france, Louis XV, Louis xvi, marie-antoinette, Modern Maries, The Good Life, the versailles glide, versailles, vigee le brun, WWMAD
Tagged Advice, Beauty, body image, Eighteenth Century, elizabeth taylor, France, Generic Hollywood Role Models, marie antoinette, Modern Marie, oprah, wendy williams, what would marie antoinette do, WWMAD
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All the Links that Are Fit to Post
Your blog mistress stumbled upon the following this week and thought you’d like a look. A museum exhibit dedicated to Marie’s rumored love, the dashing Axel von Fersen, complete with his desk, burnt letters and all. A podcast about a … Continue reading
Posted in Axel Von Fersen, Fashion, france, Interweb Marie, Life at Court, Louis xvi, marie-antoinette, Rose Bertin, versailles
Tagged 18th Century France, axel von fersen, Catherine Delors, Eighteenth Century, Fashion, France, Life at Court, marie antoinette, RoseBertin, Royal Ontario Museum, versailles
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In which the rebel crafts
It might surprise you to know that Marie Antoinette was a crafter. She could hardly help it as well-bred ladies were expected to know the feminine arts, of which embroidery was one (eyelash fluttering another). Her embroidery was incorporated into … Continue reading
Posted in Buy Me!, Conciergerie, Covet this!, Crafting Marie, france, Life at Court, marie-antoinette, The Tower, versailles
Tagged 18th Century France, Anna Griffin, Buy Me!, Conciergerie, Decor, Eighteenth Century, Fashion, France, furniture, Handkerchiefs, inspiration, kits, Ribbon embroidery, Shopping, The Tower
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