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She was Austrian, and eversince France had been in war with this country for several years before Marie Antoinette even came to France, she was absolutely not wanted on the French throne. She was not welcome being a foreigner and throughout her life they kept nicknaming her L'autrichiene (the Austrian). Everything that went wrong in the country was automatically blamed on her. Also other royals were very jealous of her and therefore she even had enemies very close to her, though she didn't know (her brother in law, Compte du Provence, was always so charming and nice to her, but financed loads and loads of horrible pamphlets to be printed about her and spread in Paris and beyond). The people charged her with treason and her head was severed by the guillotine in october of 1793, her husband (Louis XVI) was guillotined in january, earlier that year.

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