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This is a picture of King louis, and his family portrayed as gods. This shows that there were some people who respected their leaders. not all of them hated their king. This is a picture of a building, which was in Marie Antoinette's village.

Notes

Summary
 * · France - Governed by King Louis 16th
 * · King Louis -> had all the power. Did not share power with the parliament, absolute monarchy.
 * · King Louis’s wife -> Marie Antoinette – an Australian archduchess
 * · Marie Antoinette was very disliked by many people, because she was a foreigner, unfaithful to Louis and often used large amounts of money on herself.
 * · In 1774, Marie Antoinette used a huge sum of money to build her own poor looking village for her amusement.
 * · According to Marie’s courtiers, the amount of money she had use could have been used to reduce all the poverty in real villages, and give poor people a better home.
 * · The amusement village was made to look very old on the outside. It required famous painter Hubert Robert, to paint cracks on building walls to make them look old. And the village was packed luxurious furniture inside the houses. With inevitably cost a huge amount of money.
 * · Some believed that Marie Antoinette did the right thing, because she let 12 poor families move into her village, and her farm earned 6000 livres a year.
 * · Many people disliked the way of monarchy, not only because of Marie Antoinette, but also because the king had too much power.
 * · The king had so much power, that they are allowed to throw people in prison, or exile them at his own will.
 * · Many people disagreed with this type of power. During the reign of Louis, 14000 sealed letters were sent.
 * · King Louis was deeply in dept. he had spent way more than the amounts of income from taxes were paid.
 * · Eventually they fell into hard dept in 1786
 * · The only way to get into the team was if they raised the taxes.
 * · A new idea spawned. Land taxes – landowners will have to pay taxes for their land.

Overall, this chapter was about the French king, who ruled France. However because of their reckless use of the tax money, and abuse of power led them to fall into huge dept. Causing civilians to become madder.

Questions

Why would Marie Antoinette use so much of her money to build such a useless village, if their country were already in dept on money?