The essential episodes of Marie-Antoinette
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- 01
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she is forced to leave Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. She must deliver an heir in order to secure an alliance between the two nations, but she is unprepared for the royal family that awaits her.
- 02
When Louis refuses to share his bed with her, Marie Antoinette realizes that producing an heir will not be straightforward. She turns to Madame du Barry for help but a rivalry begins to form between the Favorite and the Dauphine.
- 03
The royal family spends some holidays in Fontainebleau. Marie-Antoinette learns about du Barry's plan, who looks for a fiancée for Provence. Will the second pretender to the throne of France be able to birth the Bourbon heir before Louis and Marie-Antoinette perform their duty?
- 04
Marie Antoinette and Louis are about to make their first official visit to Paris. But when the King becomes seriously ill, the succession suddenly becomes a reality.
- 05
Louis may now be King, but Marie Antoinette is determined to launch her reign as the Queen of France. However, as her political advice is ignored and Provence and Joséphine threaten to deliver an heir, a chill sets in the royals' marriage.
- 06
Antoinette's brother Joseph comes to Versailles to save the marriage, but realizes he will have his work cut out in uniting this estranged couple, still childless after seven years. Time is running out to save the Franco-Austrian alliance.
- 07
Marie Antoinette is pregnant at last, but her reputation is attacked when pornographic pamphlets challenging the legitimacy of her unborn child appear at Versailles. The castle is locked down and an investigation takes place in order to uncover the traitor.
- 08
Marie Antoinette and Louis embrace modern rule, but enemies lurk everywhere, even in Versailles.
- 09
Marie Antoinette’s affair with Fersen reignites--could it be part of a carefully orchestrated plot?
- 10
The people of Paris openly protest against Marie Antoinette as she protects her unborn child.
- 11
Marie Antoinette overhauls her image, and the King and Queen find happiness when they experience a taste of "ordinary" life.
- 12
When Marie Antoinette is implicated in the diamond necklace theft, she is determined to prove her innocence and punish those responsible.
- 13
As the public trial begins, events quickly spiral out of Marie Antoinette and Louis’s control.
- 14
Marie Antoinette deals with personal grief. Political turmoil, a struggling economy, and personal attacks push Louis toward a nervous breakdown.
- 15
Amid the revolution’s advance, Marie Antoinette struggles to support Louis’s rule. When he succumbs to depression, she steps up to rule in his place.
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