# The Théâtre de la Reine at Petit Trianon opens in the 1780 season as Marie-Antoinette’s private court theatre

Date: 1780

## The fact

Versailles estate documentation dates the Queen’s Theatre at Petit Trianon to the early 1780s court season under her patronage. Architects, players, and household officers share the file. Later tourist captions are not 1780.

It is one event.

## Context

Petit Trianon’s gift in 1774 is a neighbouring estate row.

[Marie-Antoinette](/people/marie-antoinette)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Private Trianon entertainments under Richard Mique’s estate works; players and ladies-in-waiting share performances.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Versailles Trianon estate pages and Britannica’s life independently describe the Queen’s theatre patronage at Trianon.

Official or archival record: Château de Versailles — Petit Trianon (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/estate-trianon/petit-trianon; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles).

## Significance

A working court theatre expands staged learning and court cultural access on a limited edu path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Théâtre de la Reine as a 1780-season Trianon instrument. Not established: a mass public education series.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marie-Antoinette.

They are not a public rating.

Marie-Antoinette did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Year-level date: do not invent a day precision the estate file does not fix here. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marie-Antoinette.

## People

- Marie-Antoinette: https://factrail.ai/people/marie-antoinette

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Antoinette-queen-of-France
- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/estate-trianon/petit-trianon

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-theatre-reine-1780