Marie antoinette biography timelines

Who Was Marie Antoinette?

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France who helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in She became a tecken of the excesses of the monarchy and is often credited with the famous quote “Let them eat cake,” though there is no evidence she actually said it. Marie Antoinette was beheaded nine months after her husband, Louis XVI, by beställning of the Revolutionary tribunal. She was 37 years old when she died in

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Marie Antonia Josepha Joanna
BORN: November 2,
DIED: October 16,
BIRTHPLACE: Vienna, Austria
PARENTS: Maria Theresa and Francis I
SPOUSE: Louis XVI ()
CHILDREN: Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Louis-Joseph, Louis XVII, and Sophie
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio

Family and Early Life

Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna, better known as Marie Antoinette, was born on November 2, , in Vienna.

Marie Antoinette was the 15^th and second to last child of Maria T

•

Marie Antoinette Timeline

Marie is born in Vienna to The Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa of the Hapsburgs.

In his work Confessions, Rousseau writes of an overweight noblewoman who ignorantly proclaims, “Let them eat cake!”—years before Marie even entered the public eye.

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are married, first by proxy in Vienna and later face-to-face in the royal palace of Versailles. A cozy relationship between Austria and France is established.

Newly minted King Louis XVI re-gifts the estate Petit Trianon to Marie as a wedding present. Marie commissions an entire remodeling of the gardens, drawing public attention to her penchant for decadence. Meanwhile, protesters in Paris riot after a dismal harvest skyrockets the price of bread.

Joseph II of Austria visits the royal couple to encourage consummation of the marriage.

Marie gives birth to her first daughter, Marie Thérèse Charlotte.

On the heels of Marie’s rumored infide

•

Historical Essays on the Life of Marie–Antoinette, of Austria ()

The public calls the hero wicked, and the wicked a hero; it also calls the virtuous a harlot and a harlot virtuous. . . . So were the Countess Du Barry and Marie Antoinette. Through her dissolute and revolting debauchery, Du Barry amazed the universe in the alleys, and the crossroads of Paris. She did all these things in evil ways. The same debauchery and agitation of passions were observed in Marie Antoinette's life. Men, women, everything was as she liked. She was satisfied with everything. Her clumsiness as well as her careless mistakes involuntarily gave her behavior the publicity du Barry sought. These two famous women were much alike when it came to misleading and degrading the one they owed respect to. Until his death, du Barry fooled Louis XV. She would sleep with any valet as well as with courtiers. Marie Antoinette also was unfaithful to Louis XVI and fooled him too. . . .

Marie Antoinette arrived in