How did Marie Antoinette get overthrown?

Answer 1

King Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette lost their monarchical power during the French Revolution. The French didn't want to be ruled by monarchs anymore, but wanted to become a republic without tyrannizing monarchs that they thought spend all their tax money and wanted equality, so no more nobility with all their benefits. The revolutionists captured King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, held them prisoners and eventually had them beheaded by a guillotine.

Answer 2

Marie Antoinette was the Archduchess of Austria, and eventually became the queen of France when she married Louis XV. While Marie was Queen of France, and the revolution was beginning to spark in France, she, her husband, and their children tried to flee France, but were stopped at the border, and brought back to Tuileries Palace in Paris (Versailles was several kilometers outside of the city), where they were placed under house arrest. Eventually, Marie, Louis, and their four children were thrown into prison. Louis was executed on January 21, 1793, which sent Marie into a period of mourning when she was known as "Widow Capet." She refused to eat, did not exercise, and reportedly suffered from both tuberculosis and uterine cancer during the latter years of her life. She was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal on October 14 on multiple charges. She refused to speak on any of these charges, until she was charged with the sexual abuse of her son. She famously spoke out to all the mothers in the room that it would have been disgusting and evil to abuse her son, and she was absolutely not guilty of this proposition. She was charged and sentenced to death by guillotine on October 16. She was not treated as her husband had been (being brought to his death by carriage, and dressed in all his finery), but wore a plain cotton dress, and was brought to the Place de la Concorde in caravans that at the time were used for prisoners. After her execution, she was thrown in an unmarked grave, only being exhumed in 1815, and buried with her husband at the Basilica of St. Denis.

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Answer 3

The battle of Waterloo is what finished him in the end.

Answer 4

By way of his execution in Paris.