As she is alone, the queen, when the curtain rises on the fascinating second season of “Marie-Antoinette”, whose first two episodes are broadcast from this Monday, at 9 pm, on Canal + (then only one episode per evening). On the throne for ten years, she gave birth to a “male heir” and conquered the hearts of the French.
Now she will have to fight for her reputation. It is found wrapped in a stuffed coat, in the heart of the glacial winter 1783. The apparent lightness of season 1 gave way to more serious issues. The colors darken. The tension rises from a notch. “The period is increasingly complicated for her,” summarizes Margaux Balsan, co -producer of the series.
Indeed, the boxes of the state are empty and the revolt – which will soon lead to the revolution – rumbles. While rumors go well around the queen, Jeanne de Valois, artist of the scam, sets up a scam to make the most seasoned bandits pale and manages to seize a diamond necklace at the exorbitant price without paying the slightest penny. “The story of the queen’s necklace is fantastic, both funny and very political,” says Louise Ironside, screenwriter. Marie-Antoinette and Jeanne de Valois are the two sides of the same room, both courageous and daring. »»
“We have tried to be as close as possible to the big story but we do not make a documentary,” she specifies, passionate about her subject to the point of having read the Queen’s Journal and the correspondence that she To maintain with the Count of Fersen, the love of his life. The only source we have concerning Jeanne de Valois is his biography, of which one cannot obviously believe a line, underlines the author. She invented the fake news. »»
“Torn between her desire for freedom and her duty as a queen”
The threat also grew up from the Royal Palace, a new exciting arena where philosophers, artists and free thinkers debate under the protection of Chartres, soon Duke of Orleans.
Faced with the dangers that are getting closer, this exciting season 2, more political, shows a much smarter Marie-Antoinette than we have said. “She is like a diamond: under pressure, she becomes unbreakable,” still marvels Louise Ironside. “She is torn between her desire for freedom as a woman and her duty as a queen,” analyzes Emilia Schüle, a formidable interpreter, both gray and determined. We met her frail young girl snatched from her mother to govern a country of which she knew nothing, we discover (almost) insubmersible and capable of taking the bar when the ship takes the water from all sides.