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Empress Maria Theresa died on 29 November 1780 in Vienna. Marie Antoinette feared that the death of her mother would jeopardise the Franco-Austrian alliance, as well as, ultimately, herself, but her brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, wrote to her that he had no intention of breaking the alliance.
- Marie Antoinette’s Life at The Conciergerie
- The Years Before Marie Antoinette’s Death
- How The French Revolution Upended The Monarchy
- The Former French Queen’s Trial and Sentence
- Inside The Death of Marie Antoinette
Tucked away in its cavernous halls, Marie Antoinette’s life at the Conciergerie couldn’t have been more divorced from her life of luxury in Versailles. Formerly the seat of power for the French monarchy in the Middle Ages, the imposing Gothic palace lorded over the Île de la Cité in the center of Paris as a part administrative center, part prison d...
Marie Antoinette embraced the frivolity that came so naturally to her in a way that stood out even in Versailles. Four years after coming to the heart of French political life, she and her husband became its leaders when they were crowned king and queen in 1774. She was only 18 and was frustrated by her and her husband’s polar opposite personalitie...
However soft her heart was one-on-one, the underclass of France grew to consider her a scapegoat for all of France’s ills. People called her L’Autrichienne (a play on her Austrian heritage and chienne, the French word for bitch). The “diamond necklace affair”made matters even worse, when a self-styled countess fooled a cardinal into purchasing an e...
In January 1793, King Louis XVI was sentenced to death for conspiring against the state. He was allowed to spend a few short hours with his family until his execution before a crowd of 20,000. Marie Antoinette, meanwhile, was still in limbo. In early August she was transferred from the Temple to the Conciergerie, known as “the antechamber to the gu...
Shortly before she met the guillotine at the Place de la Révolution, most of her snow-white locks were cut off. At 12:15 p.m., she stepped on the scaffold to greet Charles-Henri Sanson, the notorious executioner who had just beheaded her husband 10 months earlier. Though the man in the black mask was an early supporter of the Guillotine machine, he...
13 de may. de 2024 · Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe-Jeanne d’Autriche-Lorraine (Austria-Lorraine) Originally German: Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna von Österreich-Lothringen. Born: November 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: October 16, 1793, Paris, France (aged 37) Notable Family Members: spouse Louis XVI.
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- Marie-Antoinette was queen of France from 1774 to 1793 and is associated with the decline of the French monarchy. Her alleged remark “Let them eat...
- Marie-Antoinette was the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa. She was only 14 when her parents had her married...
- As queen, Marie-Antoinette was always unpopular. She spent lavishly, but her extravagance was only a minor cause of France’s growing debt in the 17...
- Marie-Antoinette was the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa and was married to Louis XVI. Though the first sev...
- Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 after the Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against the state. The royal family had been c...
9 de ago. de 2023 · La decapitación de María Antonieta, la "enemiga" de Francia. Así fue ejecutada la reina más icónica de la historia de Francia; una figura admirada, odiada, controvertida y fascinante. María Antonieta Podcasts. Texto y locución: Víctor Lloret. Actualizado a 08 de agosto de 2023 · 14:22 · Lectura: 15 min.
7 de nov. de 2022 · The trial of Marie Antoinette before the Revolutionary Tribunal lasted from 14-16 October 1793. Who was the first victim of the Reign of Terror? Marie Antoinette, executed on 16 October 1793, was one of the first high profile victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
27 de dic. de 2021 · Home Stories. Marie Antoinette’s Death: How Did She Die and Why? The story of Marie Antoinette’s death still fascinates and horrifies. The former French queen was found guilty of treason in October, 1793, and sentenced to death. Dec 27, 2021 • By Lauren Nitschke, BA Psychology, GradDip in Secondary Education, GradCert in History.
9 de nov. de 2009 · Marie Antoinette was queen of France during a time of increasing hostility toward the monarchy, until she was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution.
