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In short, the French Revolution was to overthrow the monarchs, because the bourgeoisie had enough of the luxurious and privileged lives of the royals and nobility. The revolutionists wanted everybody to be equal. So they fought to overthrow their royals and to rid themselves of the "tyrants" (their monarchs, who were in fact far from tyrants).

Marie Antoinette was the last Queen ever in France. Since then France has had an emperor (Napoleon Bonaparte), some Kings in name (so not really Kings at all) and eventually Presidents.

Marie Antoinette was an Austrian archduchess and since the French had been at war with Austria for ages, her mother and King Louis XV designed this marriage to be a political statement: peace. She was used as a political pion. The French already hated her before she set foot in their country, just because she was Austrian. She was literally pamphletted to death by vicious rumours. (a small example: the sentence "let them eat cake" was never uttered by her at all!) the example at that time was the Affair of the Necklace, something which she had absolutely nothing to do with.

Marie Antoinette was not part of any suppression of the French people. She should have been exiled to her home country of Austria.

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