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Marie Antoinette. Born an archduchess of Austria in 1755, Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI of France at the Palace of Versailles. Known as a fashion icon to European courts, she was Queen of France from 1774 until the King and Queen's execution by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution. This online exhibit looks closely at this regal ...
Marie-Antoinette (-Josèphe-Jeanne d’Autriche-Lorraine), (born Nov. 2, 1755, Vienna—died Oct. 16, 1793, Paris, France), Queen consort of Louis XVI of France. The daughter of Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa, she was married in 1770 to the French dauphin. After he became king (1774), she was criticized for her extravagance and frivolous ...
Dec 22, 2022 · 22 October 1781 Marie Antoinette gives birth to a son, Louis Xavier, the dauphin (heir to the throne). A sickly child, he will die in 1789. The queen’s second son, Louis Joseph, dies in the Temple prison in 1795, possibly of tuberculosis. 1785 Marie Antoinette’s reputation is sullied by the “Diamond necklace affair”.
Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was the wife of Louis XVI and the Queen of France between 1774 and 1792. Popular accounts have painted Antoinette as a disruptive and despised figure. If folklore is to be believed, she was almost single-handedly responsible for inciting the French Revolution. According to legend, Marie Antoinette’s sexual ...
Apr 4, 2022 · Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) fut la reine de France pendant les dernières années turbulentes de l'Ancien Régime et de la Révolution française (1789-1799). Avec l'ascension de son mari Louis XVI de France (r. de 1774 à 1792), elle devint reine à l'âge de 18 ans et endossera une grande part de responsabilité dans les échecs moraux de la ...
Marie Antoinette: Created by Deborah Davis. With Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow. Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
Jul 1, 2009 · Marie Antoinette was the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy, and was stripped of her riches and finery, imprisoned and beheaded by her own subjects during the French Revolution that began in 1789. As her life began there was little hint of this total reversal of life’s fortunes.
