Why was Marie Antoinette important?

Answer 1

Marie Antoinette was born November 2,1755 in Austria, the daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. She was also born on the same day as the famous earthquake of Lisbon. She was the queen of France at the outbreak of the French Revolution. In 1770 she was married to the French Dauphin, who 4 years later ascended the throne as Louis XVI. The personalities of the two rulers were very different while Louis XVI was phlegmatic and withdrawn, Marie Antoinette was strong, but care free. Marie Antoinette was imprudent in her actions and choice of friends. She soon became unpopular in the court and the country, making many of the nobles furious, including the King's brothers and those Frenchmen who regretted the recently concluded alliance with Austria, long regarded as the traditional enemy for the population. As a whole, she became the symbol for the extravagance to the court.

What you have to understand farmost about Marie Antoinette is that she was a young girl, a very young girl, who's only education in life was how to be an aristocrat. She wasn't even raised to be a queen, her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was far to busy ruling the country and left Marie Antoinette's education in the hands of her governesses who spoiled the girl (after all, she was very pretty & charming, and was the youngest of the girls in the family), doing her homework for her so Marie Antoinette did not have to do it herself.

The poor girl had a hard life in France. First as the Dauphine (the wife of the next King of France), she had little knowledge of France and it's customs. She was not accustomed to the size, riches and amoral values that was the court of France at this time. Not to mention that her relationship with her husband, Louis XVI was a rather odd one. It took quite some time for the marriage to be consummated, and for them to produce a child (8 years). During that time, the Dauphine had to listen to all the rumors that the court and the country were spreading about her (her marriage was a sham and her husband was an imbecile and impotent). She was also extremely homesick (she missed her sisters and mother greatly).

Marie was well-known to have spent wildly as a young queen before tempering things as she matured. The daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Marie left Austria for France in 1770 to marry the prince of France. In 1774 the prince became King Louis XVI and Marie became queen. As revolution swept Paris in 1789, the king and queen tried to flee but failed. While the revolutionaries were trying to hash out a new system of government, Marie and Louis XVI were stuck as prisoners at the palace Le Tuileries. They tried to get help from royal supporters in England, Prussia and Austria, but in 1792 they were arrested and charged with treason. Louis was beheaded 21 January 1793 and Marie was beheaded 16 October 1793.

One of the first things to remember about Marie Antoinette is that for most of her life she was bored. Raised at one court and married into another at fourteen. Also when she was born she had already been promised for marriage.

Marie Antoinette's last words were an apology to the executioner after accidentally stepping on his foot…

Marie Antoinette was played by Kristen Dunst in the 2006 film of Marie Antoinette directed by Sofia Coppola.

Answer 2

Because of everything about her. She was absolutely different then any other queen the world had seen. She was very stylish and had a way of dressing herself that made everybody look at her and want to copy her. Her character was soft and gentle, but also naive and easily bored. She was also a very strong woman for her time. Napoleon once said of her that "there was just one man on the throne, and that was the queen", meaning that the queen was much stronger of caracter and more capable of making a swift decision then her husband the King. She turned the fashion industry around and made Paris the most stylish capital of the world. She was also the one introducing the croissant to France! Originally the croissant was called "Viennese bread" (bread from Vienna) and because she had been so fond of it in her childhood, they kept making it for her in France. Still today, when you go to a French bakery, you will see that they are still called Vienese rolls.
She was France's last Queen.

Also she was queen during the start and eruption of the French Revolution and was killed during the most violent era of that revolution: the terror.

Also, she is the one that introduced the croissant to France (still today a very French food known all over the world, eventhough it is originally Austrian, just like Marie Antoinette).

She is also the one that made Paris the fashion capital of the world.
The majority of people will go to her most famous saying "let them eat cake" when responding to a question regarding the suffering/hunger of the French peasants. Although most historians now agree that she likely never actually said it.
Her undeniable fashion sense and her later beheading.

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She is often quoted for the phrase "Let them eat cake." There is an ongoing debate whether she actually said these words or not.

Answer 3

Marie Antionette had many influeces. For starters, Those powdered hairstyles grew waaaay bigger good news for those frisuer (hair dressers ) and aristocrats, bad stuff for peasants.Dresses grew bigger and so did debts ( peasants paid the aristocrats ).Ettiquette was ridiculously complicated and who could forget, she influenced them with the french revolution bye Versaillles, hello prison cells , I'm coming death. I love her quote: "If they have no bread, Let them eat cake!" ... no wonder the french hated her.

....Liberty! .....Fraternity!........Equality!

Answer 4

Marie Anoinette was important to the French Revolution because she and her husband, King Louis XVI lived lavishly in spite of the suffering bourgeoisie peasant class. She was beheaded on the guillotine which became historically symbolic of overthrowing monarch oppression.

Answer 5

She was the Queen of France.