Marie Antoinette

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of king Louis XVI, was nicknamed "L'Autrichienne" (The Austrian"), being born in this country

They were never in the Bastille.

Also, the Bastille was demolished in 1789, a few months after the storming on the 14th of July.

They were imprisoned in the TEMPLE - originally the Paris seat of the Knights Templar - from 13 August 1792

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.

Marie Antoinette and Luis XVI (then dauphin) were married May 16th 1769. They became King and Queen of France when King Louis XV died, on May 10th 1774.

So they were married 5 years before they eventually became King and Queen.

Yes they are related.

Marie Antoinette's husband and Elizabeth share a common ancestry from King Louis IX of France and Marguerite de Provence.

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.

Because of her innovative sense of fashion, and taste in interior designs, because of her beauty and the fact that she was very outspoken and unruly. Fot the time that she lived in, she was really ahead of her time in a lot of ways, in her fashions and her way of thinking. A queen was proposed to not get in the way of polictics, spend her day knitting and give birth to heirs to the throne. Marie Antoinette spend her days quite different and made a Queen someone to take into account. France was not ready for a modern woman like her.

This happened op June 20/21, 1791.

The flight to Varennes is a very significant episode during the French revolution.

King Louis XVI, his wife and children and some servants fled the Tuillerie palace (in the middle of the night and in disguise) in which they had been put on "house-arrest" after their removal from their palace at Versailles.

Louis XVI eventually decided to flee after Marie Antoinette had been seriously threatened to be murdered and it became obvious that the Revolutionists and the monarchs were not warming up to the idea of constitutional reigning of France (reigned by the Assemble Nationale and Louis XVI together). Marie Antoinette was the one that begged her husband to flee with the family, he eventually caved to the idea. They attempted to flee to Montmédy, Count von Fersen (who was a very close personal friend of Marie Antoinette) made the plan together with the Braon de Bretuil. With a carriage they fled in the middle of the night. They were to meet royal troups in Montmédy who would assist them organize counter revolutionary actions and to restore the monarchy.

Because the berline in which they traveled was so heavily packed it crept towards Montmédy and the trip took too long. When they arrived in the little town Varennes, all of France already knew the royal family had escaped Paris en everybody was on the look out. La Fayette even ordered an arrest warrant. A postmaster called Drouet recognized the king's face while in Varennes (in spite of his disguise) from a 50 livres banknote. La Fayette rushed over and handed the King his arrest warrant and they were escorted back to Paris.

Yes, a lot! Here they all come: * Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria February 5, 1737 June 6, 1740 died in childhood. * Archduchess Maria Anna October 6, 1738 November 19, 1789 died unmarried, no issue. * Archduchess Maria Karolina of Austria January 12, 1740 January 25, 1741 died in childhood. * Joseph II March 13, 1741 February 20, 1790 married 1) Infanta Isabel of Spain (1741-1763), married 2) Princess Marie Josepha of Bavaria (1739-1767) - second cousin, had issue from his first marriage (two daughters, who died young) * Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria May 13, 1742 June 24, 1798 married second-cousin Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen (1739-1822) , had issue (one stillborn daughter) * Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria August 13, 1743 September 22, 1808 died unmarried, no issue * Archduke Charles Joseph of AustriaFebruary 1, 1745 January 18, 1761 died of smallpox, no issue * Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria February 26, 1746 June 9, 1804 married Ferdinand, Duke of Parma (1751-1802), had issue. * Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II May 5, 1747 March 1, 1792 married Infanta Maria Louisa of Spain (1745-1792), had issue. Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 (abdicated 1790), Holy Roman Emperor from 1790, Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia from 1790. * Archduchess Maria Carolina September 17, 1748 September 17, 1748 stillborn * Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria February 4, 1750 December 23, 1762 died of smallpox, no issue * Archduchess Maria Josepha of AustriaMarch 19, 1751 October 15, 1767 died of smallpox, no issue * Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria August 13, 1752 September 7, 1814 married King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily (1751-1825); had issue * Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Duke of Breisgau June 1, 1754 December 24, 1806 married Maria Beatrice d'Este, heiress of Breisgau and of Modena, had issue (Austria-Este). Duke of Breisgau from 1803. * Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria November 2, 1755 October 16, 1793 married Louis XVI of France (1754-1793) and became the famous Queen Marie Antoinette, had issue * Archduke Maximilian Franz of AustriaDecember 8, 1756 July 27, 1801 Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, 1784. died unmarried, no issue

Nobody knows the exact number. All we really know is that she made the French go even farther into debt by spending money theydidn't have on numerous chateaux, clothing, and jewels. She also had a gambling problem. She was known as the "Austrian Whore" as well by the peasants, because she had so many sexual partners outside of her marriage to King Louis XVI.

Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI's extravagance can be seen as unjustified, especially in the context of the widespread poverty and financial crisis in France during their reign. Their lavish spending on luxury goods and opulent lifestyles contributed to public discontent and fueled revolutionary sentiments. However, some argue that their extravagance was a reflection of the absolute monarchy's traditions and the expectations of royal life. Ultimately, their inability to address the pressing issues of their time led to their downfall and the rise of revolutionary fervor.

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There exists only a rough sketch by Jacques-Louis Davis

April 1770 to January 1793

Shewasn't exactly buried. They chopped off her head, instead of burying her.

No, none of Marie Antoinette's children ever had children of their own. Her daughter Marie Therese-Charlotte managed to get out of the prison she had been in with her parents and eventually married her cousin, but the marriage was childless.

Her eldest son Louis Joseph died shortly before the revolution and was under the age of 10. Through DNA testing it was proven that the heart belonging to the orphan of the tempel belonged to somebody with Habsburg DNA. The only person fitting that description was her son Louis Charles who died at 10. Her daughter Sophie died as an infant about a year before the Revolution

Some say she was. People say she was very selfish and greedy and was viewed as "the bad guy" throughout most of history. But she was only 14 when she was married off and was thrust into a whole other world. Her husband was very unsure about her and she bought things and clung to her youth of parties and gambling so that she would not completley loose it. She was probably just scared so she spent a lot of money just as people do things to comfort them when they are nervous. When she spent all of this money like mad the public mobbed Versialles and she was beheaded because they thought of her as "the queen of debt". Although you could techincally say she was, but it was mostly because she was Queen and this was during the French Revolution. They didn't want their Queen anymore, so they executed her, just like they had done to her husband, the King. Part of this, though, was that she was a selfish queen, but she hadn't been taught how to be queen and it wasn't entirely her fault. So in some ways she was executed because she was selfish, but mostly she was not.

Marie Antoinette was beheaded. The french no longer wanted a king and queen. I'm french, but personally I can't agree with the french. They shouldn't have killed them. If they wanted to get rid of them, they should have done something else. Marie Antoinette was beheaded. The french no longer wanted a king and queen. I'm french, but personally I can't agree with the french. They shouldn't have killed them. If they wanted to get rid of them, they should have done something else.

Her prison guards in the congergerie who treated her very badly took away everything she was attached to, that she figured out pretty fast. So, she had to be inventious.

She had had a package send from Madame Campan en Madame de Tourzel which contained a bit of clothing. New caps for on her head, new linnens (underwear), stockings, and a lily white dress. It was the kind of dress you were suppost to wear underneath other clothing, though, it was definitely not see-through fabric. She decided she wanted to wear that on the very day she was to go to the guilotine. But first, she had to go on trial, and for that ocassion, she wore her widow-dress. That made the people in the courtroom pity her and so the members of the Asemblee National were affraid that when she would wear it on the day she was to be executed, the French people would feel sorry for her and try to save her in any way. Therefore, the forbade Marie Antoinette to wear the widow-dress. Marie Antoinette put on the white dress on the very last moment, just before she was to be handcuft and driven to the Place de la Revolution.

When the French saw her in her lily white dress (white like the Royal Fleur de Lys!), with her whitened hair (it turned white in just one night) and ultra white skin (she had always been pale, but because she was also losing a lot of blood due to a suspected cervical cancer she looked as if she had no more blood left in her body), nobody spoke a word dring the whole ride to the scaffold. There were thoussands of people standing on the streets watching her go by, and they were all completely mute. This was what she had wanted, and that is why she chose the dress. It represented the color of Monarchy, the color of the French Royalties and she would be a French royal until she died, although people now called her Widow Capet.

Cleopatra was a Queen of Eygpt, famous for her love affair with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, she is also the main character in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"

Marie Antoinette, was Austrian Born, but married the Dauphin of France, and became the Queen of France, she was arrested for running away with her family and beheaded, and therefore was the last Queen of France!

Marie Antoinette was born an Archduchess of Austria. She had a fairly simple childhood, and little education, as was the norm for girls at that time. However, she played many musical instruments.

Marie Antoinette was less than a month shy of her 38th birthday when she died.