Marie Antoinette

Title: Marie Antoinette
Category: History / European History | Words: 522 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France. She was born in 1755 in France and was the daughter of the Great Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa of Austria. Because here parents came from two countries at war with each other, their marriage formed a peace treaty. Marie was very spoiled and grew up with an extravagant lifestyle. She herself became the wife of the next heir to the French throne to …showed first 75 words of 522 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 522 total…great target for hatred which fanned the fire of revolution. Even if she wasn't such an insensitive person, she probably would have been killed anyway, since she represented the authority.         Marie's big mistake was that while she was prisoner, she might havee rallied the people to a new constitutional monarchy similar to England's. Instead Marie convinced her weak-willed husband to refuse tributes to the people, and seeked military aid from the other rulers of Europe.

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