Lola wanted to watch it... she said she knew she was the queen who was cut in 2 parts at the end of her life.
huh
Such details are so attractive for such curious minds :)
So ok we watched it, I explained what could be explained to a lil one.
Finally the most difficult part was to make her understand *when* all that happened. "centuries ago" is a mysterious concept for Lola who's hardly taming the tomorrow/yesterday/today thingie.
Anyway, Lola was a bit shocked that a queen could lose her head this way (apparently being cut in 2 parts is ok, but having one's head cut is less fun! .. lol).
Till yesterday being a queen was one of the job Lola had planned to do later. I think she's changed her mind. ;-)
To explain Marie-Antoinette's violent death, I told Lola something like "the queen had too much bread and did not share, people got crazy because they were so hungry and poor" (which I think is way enough explanation for a 5 years-old one)
Lola was a bit sad for the hungry people, but much more sad for the lil headless queen, of course! ;-)
And while we were in the middle of all that, I kept thinking about what had just been said about Marie-Antoinette's mom, Maria Theresa of Austria.
She was an Empress, ok, which is a tough job I can imagine. But besides being an Empress, she gave birth to 16 kids! Can you imagine that?!!!! When you know all what it takes to make a baby (talking physical strength and energy)... I just cannot imagine that to happen 16 times!
And in the broadcast, they said Maria Theresa used to keep reading the reports from her ministers even when she was having contractions.
Wawww, une force de la nature, cette Marie-Thérèse!!!!
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