Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), French queen and wife of Louis XVI

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Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), French queen and wife of Louis XVI

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1755–1793

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A daughter of Maria Theresa and the Emperor Francis I, she married the future Louis XVI of France in 1770, becoming queen four years later. She became a focus for opposition to reform and won widespread unpopularity through her extravagant lifestyle. Like her husband she was imprisoned during the French Revolution and eventually executed.

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Kerr, A. and Wright, E. (eds.) (2015). A Dictionary of World History, 3 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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