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'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 8

Daniel Hautzinger

Louis and Antoinette grow ever more threatened as the people begin to rise up and assert themselves against the monarchy.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 7

Daniel Hautzinger

As Antoinette grows even more unpopular and Louis begins to lose control, Antoinette accepts Lamballe back into her inner circle and tries to aid Louis in ruling.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 6

Daniel Hautzinger

Cardinal Rohan goes to trial and things quickly spin out of control, damaging Marie Antoinette's reputation as Louis' rivals scheme to take advantage. 

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 5

Daniel Hautzinger

Provence and Josephine scheme to discredit Louis while Cardinal Rohan is arrested for the theft of the diamond necklace and Antoinette urges a trial against him.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 4

Daniel Hautzinger

Antoinette realizes that she is unpopular and satirized in public and tries to remake her image, while Jeanne moves forward in her acquisition of the diamond necklace.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 3

Daniel Hautzinger

Jeanne manipulates the Cardinal Rohan in furtherance of her plan to acquire a diamond necklace while Antoinette sets about acquiring a property of her own for protection, lest something should happen to Louis. 

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 2

Daniel Hautzinger

Beaumarchais convinces Louis to allow a performance of his play The Marriage of Figaro, then creates more drama through his casting of Marie Antoinette in it.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Season 2 Episode 1

Daniel Hautzinger

Marie Antoinette has been queen for a decade and is pregnant with another child, but thieves and traitors stalk Versailles.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 8

Daniel Hautzinger

As Louis supports the American Revolution and prepares to go to war with Great Britain, Antoinette finds herself enamored by a dashing noble and is abetted in her tryst by Yolande. 

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 7

Daniel Hautzinger

Provence worries that his position at court is slipping away when Marie Antoinette becomes pregnant. But a defamatory pamphlet throws doubt on the father of the child, and Louis orders a thorough investigation.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 6

Daniel Hautzinger

Marie Antoinette's brother Joseph, the Habsburg emperor, comes to France to help salvage Antoinette's marriage—and thus herself, and the diplomatic advantages which the marriage confers. 

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 5

Daniel Hautzinger

Now that her husband is king, Marie Antoinette is asserting herself at court with her own villa, a ball, and a preferred candidate for prime minister. But she still faces plenty of opposition.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 4

Daniel Hautzinger

Louis-Auguste and Marie Antoinette are to make their first official trip to Paris, but an outbreak of illness in the king threatens plans, and has the young couple faced with prospect of becoming king and queen. 

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 3

Daniel Hautzinger

The king begins to take an interest in Marie Antoinette and hates being caught in the middle of her rivalry with Madame du Barry, as Provence searches for his own wife.

'Marie Antoinette' Recap: Episode 2

Daniel Hautzinger

Marie Antoinette is beginning to be enmeshed in the rivalries of Versailles, including that between the wily Madame du Barry, who has the king's ear, and most of the rest of Versailles. 
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