Sadly, even after more than a hundred years, when it comes to the last queen of the Bourbon dynasty, Marie Antoinette, people still think of Zweig's lamented motto: "At that time, She is still too young to know all the gifts that fate has given her, and she has already marked the price in secret." It was as if her tragedy ended simply because virtue did not match.
Zweig wrote "The Queen of the Dead" to disenchant Queen Mary. She is neither the saintess praised by the royalists, nor the demon concubine in the mouths of extremist organizations. Zweig said that she was just an ordinary woman caught up in an extraordinary fate, "and from time to time fate seeks out an inconsequential protagonist, in order to show that it can create high tension from fragile and fragile materials. The plot, from a powerless and reluctant soul, evolves into a great tragedy. Such a tragedy, one of the most beautiful tragedies of this unwilling heroic deed, is called Marie Antoix Nate."
It is a little too frivolous to only use the word "virtue incommensurate" as a footnote to Mary's life and the book "The Queen of the Beheaded". What Zweig lamented was the trick of fate, rather than chanting "evil will be punished" from the standpoint of a moralist, accusing Mary that she deserved to be responsible for her fate. History has never been read in terms of being a virtuous queen or a demon concubine. If Mary was diligent and ordinary, wouldn't the French Revolution not have happened? Who can say for sure?
The first half of Mary's tragedy was used to arouse the love and passion of the king of the locksmith. The movie "The Peerless Queen" depicted her standing in the huge court many times. This innocent princess who came from afar Austria bid farewell to her daughter. Companion, bid farewell to the raised puppy, and only be accompanied by this Versailles Palace, which is plated with floating gold under the sunset.
She couldn't find her place in this deep palace, and indulging in pleasure seemed to be the only way to pass the long time. When she first came to Versailles, she did not like exaggerated desserts, nor did she despise Madame du Barry, who was covered in jewels, but after her girlfriend became pregnant, she began to embrace these things that did not attract her at first. , and spent the first half of her life unconsciously.
Should she be said to be ignorant or shallow? But the entire royal court only taught her to obey etiquette, to teach her to be a wife, to teach her to be patient and charming, and to have a child with her disinterested husband. At the end of her 38-year life, she paid the price for her ignorance, but isn't this ignorance the structural sadness of aristocratic education? She thought all she could do was reject jewelry until the furious crowd burst through Versailles with torches.
Let's go back to Mary's eighteen years, when she had just transformed from a princess to a queen, and spent a sumptuous evening with dessert cakes and cheers from the crowd. She has children and the status of queen, and the road ahead seems to be smooth, so she indulges, spends, and is no longer alone. The rest of the film is fast-paced - the youngest son dies, and Mary's portrait is marked "Queen of Gambling". The people said that when their subordinates reported that "commoners can't afford bread," she responded, "Then let them eat cake." Mary scoffed at this, and could only laugh it off. The shortage of funds in the later period of the Bourbon dynasty was more due to the aid to the United States during the Revolutionary War, rather than the queen's profligacy. But suffering needs to have an end, and emotions need to have an outlet. In the opinion of public opinion, this foolish woman from Austria has been crowned and should bear the weight.
On the last night of Versailles, Mary stood on the balcony, bowing to the angry crowd. On the carriage leaving the Palace of Versailles, Marie looked at the sunset of the Bourbon dynasty.
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