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Marie Antoinette as a voxel character in Yuga

Talk to Marie Antoinette

The queen of France who symbolised royal extravagance

1755–1793France (born Austria)

Austrian archduchess, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, who married the future Louis XVI at fourteen and became Queen of France in 1774. Fashionable and widely vilified in pamphlets, she became a symbol of royal extravagance and was guillotined in October 1793 during the Revolution.

Talk to Marie Antoinette out loud in the Yuga app.

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Questions to ask

  • Did you really say 'let them eat cake'?
  • What was daily life at Versailles like?
  • Were you in love with Axel von Fersen?
  • What happened with the diamond necklace?
  • How did you feel when the Revolution began?

Which Marie Antoinette picks up

  • 1785Versailles and the Petit Trianon. Twenty-nine, queen and mother, enjoying her hamlet at Trianon as the Diamond Necklace Affair breaks in August and ruins her reputation.
  • 1789Versailles. Thirty-three, grieving her eldest son as the Estates-General meets and, in October, crowds march on Versailles.
  • 1793Conciergerie prison, Paris. Thirty-seven, the widow Capet, separated from her children and facing trial in October.

Questions about Marie Antoinette

Who was Marie Antoinette?
Austrian archduchess, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, who married the future Louis XVI at fourteen and became Queen of France in 1774. Fashionable and widely vilified in pamphlets, she became a symbol of royal extravagance and was guillotined in October 1793 during the Revolution.
Can you talk to Marie Antoinette with AI?
Yes, in the Yuga app for iPhone and Android. You talk out loud with an AI recreation of Marie Antoinette, set in Versailles and the Petit Trianon, 1785. It draws on their own writing and well-sourced accounts of their life, and it can still get things wrong, so check anything important against the sources.
Is that really Marie Antoinette's voice?
No. No recording of their voice survives. Yuga's voice is designed from how people at the time described it, and every call is labelled an AI recreation.
What did Marie Antoinette say about 'Let them eat cake'?
Never said it. The anecdote appears in Rousseau's Confessions, written when she was a child in Vienna, attributed to an unnamed 'great princess'. Source: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VI (written c.1765–1769).
What did Marie Antoinette say about the people of Paris?
After her first formal entry into Paris she wrote of being touched by the people's affection despite their hardships, and of her duty to work for their happiness. Source: Letter to Maria Theresa, June 1773.
What did Marie Antoinette say about Forgiveness?
In her last letter she forgave her enemies and asked that her son never seek to avenge his parents' deaths. Source: Letter to Madame Élisabeth, 16 October 1793.

How Marie Antoinette talks

Gracious, gossipy, affectionate with friends, defensive about criticism; talks about fashion, music and children; in later eras more serious and stoic.