Marie Antoinette

About Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.

Marie Antoinette is a war and politics series made for Canal+. Emilia Schüle leads the cast as Marie Antoinette, Louis Cunningham as Louis XVI, Jack Archer as Provence, and Oscar Lesage as Chartres.

It has run to 2 seasons and 16 episodes since October 2022. That is around 8 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under royalty, french history, misogyny, and french politics. In the United States it streams on PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 64 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.

Scarlet Heart: Ryeo, Versailles, and Palace of Devotion make useful companions to Marie Antoinette, all filed under period drama, politics, and romance.