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Marie Antoinette is known for her fashion and iconic beauty, more so than her history and time on the throne. So let’s take a look at the famous Queen’s history:
Marie Antoinette was the last Queen of France before the French revolution, in fact she was the one who provoked the revolution that led to the overthrow of the French monarchy in 1792.
She was born in Austria to the empress and emperor of Austria in 1755. In 1765, Louis Ferdinand (the son of the French monarch) died, leaving King Louis XV’s grandson, Louis-Auguste heir to the French throne. Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste’s (future King Louis XVI) marriage was planned not too long after. In 1768 King Louis XV sent a tutor to instruct Marie Antoinette, later telling the King of her intelligence but that she was lazy, frivolous, and hard to teach. In 1770, she was sent to be married in France to Louis-Auguste. In letters home, it was clear that Marie Antoinette did not take well to married life and was frequently homesick. In 1774 King Louis XV died, leaving Louis-Auguste to take over the throne with his Queen Marie Antoinette, who was only nineteen years old. In 1778 they had their first…
