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The Birth of Marie Antoinette
Born in an armchair in a room at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna at about 8.30 in the evening after an all-day labour, the future Queen of France was the 15th child and the 11th and last daughter of the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, the Emperor Francis I. In homage to the Virgin Mary, all Habsburg princesses were christened Maria and the new arrival was baptized next day as Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, and known in the family as Antoine.
She was swiftly handed over to a wet nurse and spent her first winter in the palace’s nursery wing. Her mother, whose routine day began at 4am in summer and 6am in winter, was too absorbed in affairs of state to have much time for her. In the summertime the family left Vienna for Schönbrunn Palace in the countryside, set among gardens, woods and parkland where the children could run wild.
Antoine made her first official appearance at the celebration of her father’s birthday in 1759, when she was three years old. She sang a song in French and some of her brothers and sisters played music. It was a music
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Marie Antoinette Biography
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Austrian-born French Queen
Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1755, in Vienna, Austria. Antoinette was the fifteenth child of Emperor Francis I and the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa. However, Marie Antoinette is most remembered throughout history for being the Queen of France from 1774 - 1792. There is no evidence that she ever uttered the infamous words often attributed to her, "Let them eat cake."
Madame Deficit
In 1770, Antoinette married Louis-Auguste, the Dauphin of France. When her husband became the King of France in 1774, Marie then became the Queen of France. She would give birth to four children. At first, the French people adored her. As time went on, they came to dislike her because of her loyalties to her birthplace of Austria - an enemy of France. They also disliked what they thought was her extravagant spending and wild hairstyles. Many blamed France’s financial problems on her lavish spending. They even nicknamed her Madame Deficit (meaning Mrs. Debt).
The Flight to Varennes and Beheading
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Marie Antoinette
Queen of France from 1774 to 1792
For other uses, see Marie Antoinette (disambiguation).
| Marie Antoinette | |||
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Portrait, c. 1775 | |||
| Tenure | 10 May 1774 – 21 September 1792 | ||
| Born | Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria (1755-11-02)2 November 1755 Hofburg, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire | ||
| Died | 16 October 1793(1793-10-16) (aged 37) Place de la Révolution, Paris, France | ||
| Cause of death | Execution by guillotine | ||
| Burial | 21 January 1815 Basilica of Saint-Denis | ||
| Spouse | Louis XVI (m. ; died ) | ||
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| House | Habsburg-Lorraine | ||
| Father | Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor | ||
| Mother | Maria Theresa | ||
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Marie Antoinette (;[1]French:[maʁiɑ̃twanɛt]ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the establishment of the French Firs
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