http://womenshistory.about.com/od/rulerspre20th/p/marieantoinette.htm
Main points:
-Marie Antoinette was promised in marriage in order build a diplomatic alliance between her birth family and the family of her husband
-married the french dauphin
-Her frivolity contrasted with the withdrawn personality of her husband
-The French were suspicious of her ties to Austria and her influence on the King in attempting to foster policies friendly to Austria
-Affair of the Diamond Necklace in which she was accused of having an affair with a cardinal in order to obtain a costly diamond necklace, further discredited her
-Marie Antoinette and French Revolution
-After the Bastille stormed, the queen urged the king to resist the Assembly's reforms, making her even more unpopular, and leading to the attribution to her of the remark-- "Let them eat cake!"
-they were forced to move to paris to a prisonal cell like place
-queen and family tried to escape
-king first executed, then queen at age 37 on oct 16 1793
More info with french revolution
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