Few personalities in history fascinate as much as Marie Antoinette's. Fewer still provoke so much controversy and passion. Was she the flippant queen who heartlessly counseled her starving peasants to dine on cake? Or was she one of history's most maligned and perversely misinterpreted characters?

This unique Paris Luxury Tour attempts both to acquaint you with some of her milieus in France and with the many facets of her personality, from the frivolous, superficial girl who debarked in France, to the austere, self-controlled monarch who climbed the scaffold, with infinite poise, in the Place de la Revolution (now Concorde) in the last minutes of her life.

This custom tour of Marie Antoinette's France attempts to resolve the contradictions of a woman for whom honor was the supreme human quality but who so often associated with persons who had very little of it, and of the woman who recklessly squandered so much, including a good part of her adapted nation's wealth, her youth, and the good will of her subjects---yet who always placed the interests of the persons she loved, and those who served her, way ahead of her own.

This exceptional private tour of Marie Antoinette's world takes you to spots in France that are inextricably associated with her: from the Chateau de Versailles where she arrived as a naive young bride and where she lived her early years in France, to her flight from reality at the Petit Trianon Palace, and her village, all the way to the Conciergerie, where reality and fantasy eventually merged together and put an end to her life.

In between, our guided Marie Antoinette tour will take you to see some of her favorite haunts, including: the Bagatelle Chateau, which was the result of the bet that she lost with her brother-in-law (that it could not be built in less than two months), and the Comedie Francaise theater that she so often frequented. At the end of our escorted tour of Marie Antoinette's France, we will trace the route from the Conciergerie to the Place de la Revolution, to the very spot where her life ended.

For those of you who are interested, our Marie Antoinette tour will conclude by showing you some of the commerce in Paris that she frequented that is still in business today, including the chocolate maker whose creations she consumed and served, one of the famous jewelry houses that she both patronized and vetted at the Chateau de Versailles, and one of the luxury textile houses whose fabrics were used to upholster the rooms in which she resided at Versailles, which can still be seen inside the Chateau.

Two Day Tour of Marie Antoinette's France

If you would like to extend your tour of Marie Antoinette's France for a second day, we will take you to more of the places that are closely identified with one of history's most compelling figures. This singular tour of Marie Antoinette's world will give you insights into what captured her imagination and inspired her to create her own unreal world. The second day of our private tour of Marie Antoinette's life in France starts with a drive from Paris to the Palace of Compiegne, where she was received by Louis XV and the awkward Dauphin who later became Louis XVI, upon her arrival from Vienna. Not by coincidence, Compiegne also became one of the favorite haunts of Napoleon, on whom Marie Antoinette's exquisite taste was not lost, and which he followed studiously.

This custom tour of Marie Antoinette's France then visits the Chateau at Chantilly, the village of which served as the inspiration for her own Norman 'hameau' within the Petit Trianon Domain. From there we then take you to the Parc Monceau, an English-style garden in the eighth district of Paris that also became the model for the gardens at the Petit Trianon.

Your two day tour of Marie Antoinette's realm also pays a visit near where she and her husband were first buried, now the Expiatory Chapel, later built by his brother, and then continues on to the Tuileries Gardens.

The Tuileries Palace in which the royal family was compelled to take up residence, after being forced back to Paris from Versailles, no longer remains; but the Tuileries Gardens which she visited to great popular acclaim during her very first (state) visit to the City of Lights and which she gloomily contemplated before their attempt to escape, are very much all there. Our last stop in our two day tour of Marie Antoinette's France is in front of the last Paris residence of Axel Fersen, the man who loved her more than anyone, whose exceptional talents, intelligence and devotion were even not equal to the task of saving her and her family, thanks to a combination of characteristically poor royal judgment and the turbulent tides of history.

Two day cost for 1-3 persons: 1650 € per group
--- for 4-6 persons: 1900 € per group
Includes driver/guide, luxury vehicle, fuel and tolls.
Meals, entry fees, drinks not included.

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