Tag: Farewell My Queen

Paris as Protagonist

The City of Light plays a leading role in the 2013 film, Le Week-End, about a long-married British couple celebrating—or, at least, observing—an anniversary. It’s sort of a Before Midnight with a slightly older couple (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan)…

Visit Versailles via ‘Farewell, My Queen’

Does anyone understand Marie Antoinette? How someone, anyone, the queen of France could be so entirely oblivious about what was going on all around her entirely befuddles me. Every time I make excuses for her—she was too young for her…

Marie Antoinette had little privacy at Versailles. Photo credit: L. Tripoli

Marie Antoinette had little privacy at Versailles.
Photo credit: L. Tripoli