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Marie Antoinette

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November 2, 1755

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October 16, 1793

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Marie Antoinette (/ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t-/, French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] (listen); born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre, which she held until September 1791, when she became Queen of the French as the French Revolution proceeded, a title that she held until 21 September 1792.

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Marie Antoinette at age 13 by Martin van Meytens, 1767. picture credit	Royal Monogram as Queen of France picture credit	Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, in coronation robes by Jean-Baptiste Gautier Dagoty, 1775. picture credit
Profile medallion of Marie Antoinette as Dauphine of France in 1770, allegorical to her marriage. picture credit	Marie Antoinette at the clavichord, by Franz Xaver Wagenschön (1768). picture credit	Marie Antoinette in a court dress worn over extremely wide panniers, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1778). picture credit
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria visited Marie Antoinette and her husband on 7 February 1775 at the Château de la Muette. picture credit	Marie Antoinette with her two eldest children, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte and the Dauphin Louis Joseph, in the Petit Trianon's gardens, by Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller (1785). picture credit	A cottage from Queen's Hamlet picture credit
Another state portrait of Marie Antoinette, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1788) picture credit	Marie Antoinette, at the age of thirteen; this miniature portrait was sent to the dauphin, so he could see his bride before he met her, by Joseph Ducreux (1769). picture credit	Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine. (Pen and ink by Jacques-Louis David, 16 October 1793) picture credit
An engraving of Marie Antoinette à la paysanne, or Marie Antoinette as a peasant; she often dressed as one with her friends at her Hameau, imitating the simple life. picture credit	This State Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1787) of Marie Antoinette and her children Marie Thérèse, Louis Charles (on her lap), and Louis Joseph, was meant to help her reputation by depicting her as a mother and in simple, yet stately attire. picture credit	Marie Antoinette en chemise, portrait of the queen in a "muslin" dress, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1783). This controversial portrait was viewed by her critics to be improper for a queen. picture credit
Portrait of Marie Antoinette in hunting attire (a favorite of her mother), by Joseph Krantzinger (1771), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. picture credit	Louis Auguste as Dauphin of France, by Louis-Michel Van Loo (1769). picture credit	A portrait of Marie Antoinette, painted around 1791, by Alexandre Kucharsky. picture credit
Marie Antoinette's execution on 16 October 1793. picture credit	Funerary monument to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, sculptures by Edme Gaulle and Pierre Petitot in the Basilica of St Denis picture credit	Sophie Hélène Béatrice de France, Mademoiselle Sophie, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1786). picture credit

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