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http://www.marie-antoinette.org/Articles/Entries/1997/1/3_Marie_Antoinette%3A_A_Biography.html
This is an artcile from Marie Antoinette online and it is an article with a breif biography on Marie Antoinette. It has good background info such as she was bron to the Empressof Austria. She was married at the age of 15 to the King of France, the dauphin, to which she was not very pleased about and had a boredom life, and the article goes about explaning it and how she became the Queen of France at adolescence. Her husband was boring she was more vibratn and wanted to go out and experience the French nightlife, fashion, arts, dance and beauty. The article has a small heading such as Circle of Friends, Extravagent Life, Queen of France etc...and it gives a small summary which is very helpful. It explains how her peers led her to many scandals. She also started to think of herslef, started to enjoy life and beauty. She enjoyed fashion at a price, which was considered a taboo in that soceity. She spent lavishly on clothes and ornaments and was looked upon by the soceity. Everyone started being angry at her. Diamond Necklace Affair made it even worse (and this is explained in this website) and also how the trial went and it's impact. Then the website tells how it caused the Fall of Bastille and the march of women (which shows the reaction of the women--which is very essential in answering my question). The rest of article is more history of the nation and state and stuff more than her herself, which is what i need for this project, so it is not very important to my project really. The last 1/5th is about fall of monarchy and reign of terror and stuff. The last heading which is "The Queens Fate" has info on how the women reacted and what her fate was and how it had affected Europe.