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Her only crime was that she was born an Austrian.

She was the Queen of France, and ever since the revolutionaries wanted to get rid of their monarchs to start a republic, vicious rumours had spread about her and she was falsely seen as the cause of the great debt the country was in. The revolutionaries therefore decided not only to kill the King of France, but also his wife, Marie Antoinette.

Not only that, but she was extremely vicious towards peasants and third estate-men. She was credited with saying that if they were having troubles, "let them eat cake!" which basically meant she didnt really care about their situation money wise or didnt know about it.

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