Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI (not xiv) after her parents who were the the leaders of the Holy Roman Empire, and his Grandfather (king Louis XV) arranged their marriage. It was a marriage of convenience for the purposes of joining alliances not for love as the two had never met until after they had already been married by proxy.

Yes, she was. 3rd November 1755 at the Church of the Augustine Friars, the traditional church used by the court. She was given the names Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna.

The revolutionary minded bourgeoisie wanted them to move to the old Tuilerie palace in Paris in order to make their monarchs feel that they were no longer in control, but the 3rd estate (the bourgeoisie) was.

The King and his family were put under a sort of house arrest.

She had her first child (Marie-Thérèse Charlotte) on December 19th, 1778. Meaning Marie Antoinette was 23 years of age when she had her.

Because she was Austrian.

She suffered from what the French citizens considered a serious birth defect: She was an Austrian by accident of birth. It was not a noticeable defect. She was a fluent linguist and could have probably handled herself in any European Court, Parisian coffee shop or bistro.

Maria Theresa of Austria (in German, her name is Maria Theresia).

Maria Antoinette's father was Francis I of Austria who was the Holy Roman Emperor.

They had 4 children: * Marie Thérèse Charlotte (20 December 1778 - October 1851) * Louis Joseph Xavier François (22 October 1781 -- 4 June 1789) * Louis Charles (27 March 1785 -- 8 June 1795) * Sophie Hélène Beatrix (9 July 1786 -- 19 June 1787) As you can see, only their eldest daughter survived the revolution.

I blame the public of France. She was executed on the guillotine by Sanson the executioner, not however the Sanson who had executed her husband Louis XVI but his son who had assumed the office from his father who attended and acted as an assistant.

She had to take her lunch and diner in public, she hated that, so during those meals she hardly ate anything. Her breakfast was private (there were always members of the court present and her ladies in waiting, but at least no strangers), and therefore her favorite meal. She loved her coffee in the morning and croissants. Madame Campan, her first lady in waiting wrote in her memoirs:

"Marie-Antoinette usually ate nothing but roast or boiled poultry and drank nothing but water. The only things of which she was particularly fond were her morning coffee and a sort of bread (croissants) to which she had grown accustomed during her childhood in Vienna."

You can check Google pictures and type in her name, you'll find some pictures of her. At that time (18th century) she was a true beauty. We might have different beauty-standards today, but at that time she was considered gorgeous. She had thick strawberry blond hair (though you might not see that in her paintings because her hair had to be powdered according to court custom), very light (pale) and smooth-looking skin (which was her trademark) with rosy cheeks, she was about 1.65 meters tall and had large pale blue eyes. Her nose was a little crooked and she had the famous Habsburg lip, meaning her lower lip was thicker than her upper lip, which was a real Habsburg heritage, all members of the Habsburg family had this.

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She contributed a lot of money to welfare and the needy, as did Louis XVI: At the fireworks celebrating the marriage of the young prince and princess in May 1774, there was a stampede in which many people were killed. Louis and Antoinette gave all of their private spending money for a year to relieve the suffering of the victims and their families. Marie-Antoinette's reputation for sweetness and mercy became even more entrenched in 1774, when as the new Queen she asked that the people be relieved of a tax called "The Queen's belt," customary at the beginning of each reign. "Belts are no longer worn," she said. Louis XVI often visited the poor in their homes and villages, distributing alms from his own purse. During the difficult winter of 1776, the King oversaw the distribution of firewood among the peasants. Louis was responsible for many humanitarian reforms. He went incognito to hospitals, prisons, and factories so as to gain first-hand knowledge of the conditions in which the people lived and worked. The King and Queen were patrons of the Maison Philanthropique, a society founded by Louis XVI which helped the aged, blind and widows. The Queen taught her daughter Madame Royale to wait upon peasant children, to sacrifice her Christmas gifts so as to buy fuel and blankets for the destitute, and to bring baskets of food to the sick. Marie-Antoinette took her children with her on her charitable visits. The Queen adopted three poor children to be raised with her own, as well overseeing the upbringing of several needy children, whose education she paid for, while caring for their families.

Marie Antoinette established a home for unwed mothers, the "Maternity Society," mentioned above.

There was food for the hungry distributed every day at Versailles, at the King's command. During the famine of 1787-88, the royal family sold much of their flatware to buy grain for the people, and themselves ate the cheap barley bread in order to be able to give more to the hungry.

Every Sunday, Marie-Antoinette would personally take up a collection for the poor, which the courtiers resented since they preferred to have the money on hand for gambling. The queen supported several impoverished families from her own purse.

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette contributed a great deal throughout their reign to the care of orphans and foundlings. They patronized foundling hospitals, which the Queen often visited with her children.

The king and queen did not see helping the poor as anything extraordinary, but as a basic Christian duty. The royal couple's almsgiving stopped only with their incarceration in the Temple in August 1792, for then they had nothing left to give but their lives.

Marie Antoinette was born in 1755 and was the daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa. Marie Antoinette married King Louis XVI of France. In 1793, she and her husband were beheaded after the fall of the Bastille.

Marie Antoinette married to Louis XVI of France in 16 May 1770

Marie Antoinette was born November 2,1755 in Austria, the daughter of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. She was also born on the same day as the famous earthquake of Lisbon. She was the queen of France at the outbreak of the French Revolution. In 1770 she was married to the French Dauphin, who 4 years later ascended the throne as Louis XVI. The personalities of the two rulers were very different while Louis XVI was phlegmatic and withdrawn, Marie Antoinette was strong, but care free. Marie Antoinette was imprudent in her actions and choice of friends. She soon became unpopular in the court and the country, making many of the nobles furious, including the King's brothers and those Frenchmen who regretted the recently concluded alliance with Austria, long regarded as the traditional enemy for the population. As a whole, she became the symbol for the extravagance to the court.

What you have to understand farmost about Marie Antoinette is that she was a young girl, a very young girl, who's only education in life was how to be an aristocrat. She wasn't even raised to be a queen, her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, was far to busy ruling the country and left Marie Antoinette's education in the hands of her governesses who spoiled the girl (after all, she was very pretty & charming, and was the youngest of the girls in the family), doing her homework for her so Marie Antoinette did not have to do it herself.

The poor girl had a hard life in France. First as the Dauphine (the wife of the next King of France), she had little knowledge of France and it's customs. She was not accustomed to the size, riches and amoral values that was the court of France at this time. Not to mention that her relationship with her husband, Louis XVI was a rather odd one. It took quite some time for the marriage to be consummated, and for them to produce a child (8 years). During that time, the Dauphine had to listen to all the rumors that the court and the country were spreading about her (her marriage was a sham and her husband was an imbecile and impotent). She was also extremely homesick (she missed her sisters and mother greatly).

Marie was well-known to have spent wildly as a young queen before tempering things as she matured. The daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, Marie left Austria for France in 1770 to marry the prince of France. In 1774 the prince became King Louis XVI and Marie became queen. As revolution swept Paris in 1789, the king and queen tried to flee but failed. While the revolutionaries were trying to hash out a new system of government, Marie and Louis XVI were stuck as prisoners at the palace Le Tuileries. They tried to get help from royal supporters in England, Prussia and Austria, but in 1792 they were arrested and charged with treason. Louis was beheaded 21 January 1793 and Marie was beheaded 16 October 1793.

One of the first things to remember about Marie Antoinette is that for most of her life she was bored. Raised at one court and married into another at fourteen. Also when she was born she had already been promised for marriage.

Marie Antoinette's last words were an apology to the executioner after accidentally stepping on his foot…

Marie Antoinette was played by Kristen Dunst in the 2006 film of Marie Antoinette directed by Sofia Coppola.

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was born Maria Antonia to her mother Maria Theresa, the Empress of Austria. She was the Empress' youngest daughter out of many children. At a young age, a marriage contract was signed. Archduchess Maria Antonia would marry the Dauphin Louis Auguste (later King Louis XVI). Her name was changed to Marie Antoinette, the French version of Maria Antonia. She became the queen of France, had four children and was killed with a guillotine (beheaded) during the French Revolution.

She lived in the late 1700s at a time when the French court at Versailles was becoming very frivolous. The monarchs and aristocrats were oblivious to the needs of the common people. Marie may have been especially disliked since she was from the rival country of Austria.

Folklore has it that when told that the people had no bread, she replied "Then let them eat cake." Whether true or not, it accurately expressed the schism between the rich and the poor in France, as many of the wealthy showed apathy, if not disdain, toward the conditions of the populace as a whole. Many, including Marie and Louis, lost their heads after the revolution.

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Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France, and therefore Queen of France. She was born Austrian and lived there until she was 14 years of age, then she was sent of to marry her French husband and lived in Versailles, France for the rest of her life. She lived from 1755 until 1793.

She was born an Archduchess of Austria and later became Queen of France and Navarre. At fourteen, she was married to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI. She was the mother of Louis XVII, who died in the Temple Tower at the age of ten during the French Revolution. Marie Antoinette is perhaps best remembered for her legendary (and, some modern historians say, exaggerated) excesses and for her death: she was executed by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 for the crime of treason.

When she was taken to her trial, she spoke to the people of France how she felt. Then, she made a speech to the mothers of France talking about what it felt like to her to lose her children, she loved them. On the platform, she accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot. Her last words were, "Pardon me, Monsieur"

She was married off to the dauphin of France, the future King Louis XVI.

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.

Marie Antoinette had four children, two whom died in childhood. The surviving children, Louis Charles and Marie Therese Charlotte were imprisoned with their parents and after Louis XVI was executed Louis Charles was separated from his mother, sister and aunt and placed in a cell beneath theirs where they could hear his cries. He was proclaimed Louis XVII upon his fathers death and was brutally beaten by his jailers they plied him with wine and forced him to falsely testify against his mother during her trial, that she and his pious aunt had sexually abused him, he remained imprisoned until his death of tuberculosis in 1795. Many men claimed in the years that followed to be Louis Charles, although DNA tests in 2000 on the body on the boy buried in prison proved to be Marie Antoinette's son.

Marie Therese Charlotte fled France after the revolution. She became the duchesse d'Angouleme and lived to old age to see the reign of her uncles Louis XVIII and Charles V. She died childless thus ending the direct line of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI.

Marie did not live in a house ever. As a princess and Queen, she was born at a palace in Vienna, Austria. She spent the next half of her life in the Palace of Versailles, France, which is open to tourists. You can find a map on Google. She lived in the Tulieries palace, also in France.

Marie Antoinette married at only 14, and her husband was known to be corpulent and ugly. He completely ignored her and left for hunting, and they didn't have an heir until after 8 years of being married. But eventually it was known that they became good friends, but they were really never in love.

Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine on October 16, 1793. She was the wife of King Louis XVI of France. Her execution was nine months after her husband's execution during the French Revolution.

The queen of France, Marie Antoinette had children. Her oldest daughter, Marie-Thérèse, was born in 1778 (died 1851). Her oldest son, Louis-Joseph, was born in 1781 (died 1789). Her second son, Louis-Charles, was born in 1785 (died 1795). Her last child and youngest daughter, Sophie, was born in 1786 (died 1787).

She was Austrian, a country that France had been in war with for years. The French did not want a foreigner on the throne, especially not an Austrian.

Also, even before she came to France, the revolution was already smouldering because of the financial disasters of Louis XIV and Louis XV which they caused to the national treasury. France was already almost bankrupt when Marie Antoinette stepped in the picture, and because the French needed someone to blame it all on, and she was Austrian, she was the perfect victim. The people tried to make all of France believe that she had no concern for her people, spending money on wigs and dresses and throwing wild parties while the population was starving and desperate.

The people did believe it, although she was completely innocent and killed her and her husband, destroying the whole French monarchy and the French credibility all around the world for as far as the French had that anyway.