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    • Louis XVI of FranceLouis XVI of France

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  2. Apr 19, 2024 · The 11th daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa, Marie-Antoinette was just 14 years old when she was married to the dauphin Louis, grandson of France’s King Louis XV, on May 16, 1770. The stigma of being a representative of Austria when a connection with Vienna was unpopular in France remained with her throughout her life.

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  3. Marie Antoinette. Marie Antoinette ( / ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t -/; [1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria ...

  4. Nov 9, 2009 · Four years later, Marie Antoinette and the dauphin were married by proxy in Vienna. (They were 15 and 16 years old, and they had never met.) On May 16, 1770, a lavish second wedding ceremony took ...

  5. Jul 11, 2023 · Marie Antoinette was a child of only 14 years, delicately beautiful, with gray-blue eyes and ash-blonde hair. In May 1770, she set out for France to be married, escorted by 57 carriages, 117 ...

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  6. Jul 14, 2023 · Marie Antoinette had four children: Marie Therese, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie. ... she married his heir, her first cousin Louis, Duke of Angoulême. It was an unhappy marriage, which ...

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  8. Jun 17, 2020 · Marie Antoinette’s Husband – King Louis XVI. King Louis XVI of France was the ill-fated husband of Marie Antoinette. Louis, the last real French King, tasted monarchical power beginning in 1774. But he didn’t complete his expected life tenure due to interruptions by French Revolution. Born in August 1754, Louis executed had to die in ...

  9. Apr 4, 2022 · Definition. Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793) was the queen of France during the turbulent final years of the Ancien Régime and the subsequent French Revolution (1789-1799). With the ascension of her husband Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792), she became queen at the age of 18 and would shoulder much of the blame for the perceived moral failures ...