Index Card #5

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95nov/antoinette.html
Again another website on overall main things that happened in her life (brief summary, small biography)
Main points:
-nov 2, 1755 birth
-youngest most beautiful daughter of Francis Stephen I and Maria Theresa
-brought up beliveing her destiny=become queen of france
-she reduced the royal hoosehold staff, eliminating many unnecessary positions that were based solely on privilege.
-added scandalous stories spready by royal hopefuls
-a mob descended on the palace at Versailles and demanded the royal family move to the Tuilerie palace inside Paris
-King and Queen were virtual prisoners
-royal family ended up being arrested in suspicion of treason and imprisonment
-cruely treated during her final days of her captivity
-Her children (Marie Therese and Louis XVII) were taken from her.
-Louis XVII was subjected to abuse by the family's jailers and later died, supposedly of Tuberculosis and malnutrition.
-Marie Therese, her firstborn daughter was the only family member to survive
-She was executed without any proofs of her crimes