The Wife of Louis XV - Maria Leszczyńska - A POLISH Queen For France

Another great video on the French monarchy! While she might have had the best intentions for her people she was not in a position to give the people of France what they needed. Remember the nation was not sovereign during these times. France in a very real way was property of the Bourbon Family. I think it would be good to view these figures from a point of absolute control

I enjoyed this presentation on Maria Leszyznska. The queen consorts interest me very much. Although royal, princesses often lived very regimented lifestyles. It must have been a shock to come from that kind of background and then - boom - you are queen if France. Since etiquette was so intricate and making a good impression was so important (not to mention being married to someone you didn't really know and who was a teenager) she had a good deal of pressure on her. And then in time, to be compared to be compared to Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry, would also have been very difficult, but Maria seems to have really succeeded. I laud her charitable work. A queen could not change how her husband's government functioned, but could she try to ease the burden of poverty and misfortune among the people. All and all, I think Maria did a very good job.

I love your videos so much can you make some about Mary queen of Scott’s!

Can't wait for Louis XIV 👍

Very Stark contrast with Marie Antoinette

She's not Louis XVI's mother huh??!!

Is true that luis 15 had 30 ilegitment children 🤔

Sad that Royal Women were treated like "breeding cattle"

I like these. They are short and informative.

Wonderful parenting philosophy to curb childrens' arrogance.
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I am really loving this channel. So many historical figures that I didn't know very much about.

I have deep respect for Queen Maria Leszczyńska. She had a very hard life, being exiled from their homeland, living as virtual beggars and lastly being looked down by some nobles and courtiers who saw her as of too modest rank to become Queen of France, and by other foreign royals who were insulted that they were passed over for a mere "upstart Polish girl" such as the likes of Spain and Russia. Still, she endured all humiliation and slights with dignity and grace. She was the very image of a dutiful, dignified queen that others failed to live up to. She was loved by the French people for her kindness and generosity. She's a remarkable woman and I just hope one day they would make a movie about her life.

I know that most of these were rumors or propaganda, but her reputation was in Stark contrast with her successor queen, Marie Antoinette.

Marie Leszczyńska was once reported to have said when she was reprimanded by a courtier for wearing such modest clothes for the Queen of France, she said to have replied "I do not need gowns when the poor have no shirts.” - a very far cry from the "Let them eat cake" attributed to Marie Antoinette.

I am glad she could forbid Louis her bed. 12 children in 10 years? At least she avoided dying in childbirth and catching sexual diseases from her satyr of a husband!

This woman knew what it truly means to be a queen and that is to serve her people.

"Good kings are slaves and their people are free." -Maria Leszczyńska Reine de France

Thank you because in France when i was little we were not taught about queens as if they were just... objects

TYVM!

Thank you for a solid biography on this kind and lovely French Queen. One wonders what might have changed if Marie Antoinette had known her.

As all other videos: very well researched and narrated. I really enjoy them!

Beauty and the Beast. Originally Published in 1740.

"Quis Lescynsciorum genus ignorat, Poloniae ignorat" Vivat Wienawa coat of arms!
Thank You so so much! Wspaniała praca, wielki szacunek :) dziękuję!

I have such a fondness for her!

I loved it

Mother,"whore", wow,that's harsh! LoL

And actually,Maria leszcsynska's father died because his clothes got caught on a fire,not by illness or natural causes so if he hadn't had the fire accident,he would have actually lived even through Maria's death,which is crazy in 18th century Europe.

Hi! Greetings from Polish side. Nice to have Poland mentioned and our Queen's surname spelled properly. :)

Such an honorable and pious queen who loved her family and the poor. She rejected the pomp and show of the french court, did lot of charity work. A complete woman. May she rest in peace.

Music is too loud in background.

‘Not exactly pretty’ I have to disagree she was beautiful.

My favorite Queens 1 Irina Feodorovna (wife of Feodor Ivanovich) 2 Maria Grigorievna (wife of Boris Godunov) 3 Victoria Eujenia 4 Henrietta Maria 5 Catherine of Aragon 6 Milica of Serbia 7 Elisabeth Woodville 8 Marianna Victoria (The Child Queen) 9 Maria Leszczynska 10 Ayse Hafsa Valide Sultan

Having children was a death sentence to these poor women.

So nice to learn about this Queen. She had the same birthday as my parents. The year very different, of course. Thank you!

Her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter Inés de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma is still technically a royal, the heir to the throne of the two Sicilies through Isabella II of Spain, the descendant of the only one of her daughters to produce issue

Such a wonderful, charitable woman. May she rest in peace.

I love Marie Leszczynska! 🤧🤧✨✨✨

Vive la Reine!!!!
Queen Maria seems to have been the best example of a virtuous Queen in a very long time. 👸🏻

I find it very odd that a king has something that seem to be an ordinary family name Leszczynski. It was very nice to hear about the life of this Queen. She seems to be a bit aside because of all the Kings mistresses. Thank you very much! 🌺

Desmond Seward called her: "...a frump, but a dignified one."

Great video I enjoyed it can't wait to see more soon 😀

I can ask If you hear about Marie Louise Gonzaga?

I wonder whether the revolutionists would have killed her too despite her popularity and all those things she had done for the people

Queen Marie focused herself in numerous charitable activities using most of her yearly allowance along with the monthly financial aid she asked from her father the Duke of Lorraine, King Stanislas I of Poland and from her own children's donations all of which endeared her to the common Frenchmen. Barrister Barbier who was present on the Queen's first visit to the capital in October 1728, noted in his memoirs that the 25 year old Marie along with her entourage joyfully threw around 12,000 livres worth of money while crossing the slums in Paris in which she made a fairly long tour. Other contemporary accounts such as the memoirs of the Duke de Richelieu, Duke de Luynes,priest Abbe de Proyart and her lady in waiting the Marechale de Mouchy enumerated several of Marie Leczinska's projects wherein she "Gave to all kinds of people, to honest families, all the more to be pitied in misfortune, as shame robs them of the resource of begging; she paid pensions in society such as convents where young poor people she caused to be brought up there. Louis XV's wife also donated money to hospitals, to charity schools, to religious communities such as the house of Saint- Thomas, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; in Paris. Moreover, she gave cash to the poor convents of Capucines, Sainte-Aure, Ave-Maria, and to the poorer provinces in France struck by calamity. This she was able to do through coordination with various church leaders on those far flung regions. Marie also released from prison the wretched, detained for debts contracted by the need to feed a large family. Her charity did not exonerate the unfortunate who were so for their crimes. The Queen especially loved to give money to the Daughters of Saint-Vincent, whom their institute was especially devoted for caring of the poor, the prisoners and the sick: she gave alms personally whenever she sees the poor in the gates of Versailles, Compiègne, Marly, Fontainebleau and Choisy or wherever Marie goes from her carriages and this she does abundantly and with joy. To accommodate futher those she wanted help, Queen Marie Leczinska had many ways of diversifying her alms by being economical. Thus, she gave a lot of edible foods of all kinds, especially to poor religious communities that feed the hungry. She gave in linen and clothes, in coarse stuffs and in silk stuffs. Marie had a depot in her apartments in Versailles, where she gathered all the clothes necessary for the poor, from the swaddling clothes, jackets, shirts for adults and to the burial shrouds: these clothes had been worked under her eyes or by her orders, and several were made by her own hands as she spun wool using her spinning wheel: she distributed a part of it herself, and made pass the most considerable by the hands of the sisters of the charity, and of some other people charged by her to fly to the discovery of the secret needs families. Finally, she had an apothecary or pharmacy in her house, where a daughter of Saint-Vincent, whom she honored made and distribute medicine to the poor inhabitants nearby."

"SEE HOW THEY LOVE HER"--
utterred by an emotional Louis XV age 58 to his daughters and grandchildren including future Louis XVI upon seeing the numerous worried poor people who flock the courtyard of Versailles to hear news of his dying wife Queen Marie Leczinska age 65..( sources: Memoirs of parliamentarian. President Henault and entourage de Angouvelliers.

.What an amazing woman Queen Marie Leczinska is ! ❤ of all the Queen of France she was the only one who truly cared for her subjects the poor frenchmen to alleviate their suffering through her philantrophic works..while other Queens and wannabee Queens (ex
.Pompadour) were all about gaining Power and Manipulation and. enriching themselves with taxpayers money from the french populace the third estate..🤮No wonder Queen Marie she was much loved during her lifetime and knows it..and I've read that many people especially the old ones actually miss her time as Queen of France during the French revolution as she was always their for them when they have no money for expensive bread..Marie sold all her private jewelry collection to give them money to the poor source: diaries of the Duke de Richeleiu best friend of Louis XV and Madame dela Mouchy her lady in waiting...while priest Abbe de Proyart recorded the people saying "The Good Queen how she love us and how we loved her" during the 1790s.