Marie Antoinnette was the daughter of the Austrian Emperor Francis I, the French Queen and the wife of Louis XVI. A controversial character of that epoch, was executed during the French Revolution.
Maria Antoinette was born in 1755 and was the youngest doughter of the Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She married Louis at the age of 15 years and she always thought that thanks to her charm she will achieve what she wants. The wedding took place May 16, 1770. The first years at the Versailles Palace were happy. Louis was a shy young man and did not participate to the social life. Marie Antoinnette loved to dance, to play cards or society games all night long. She liked entertainment.
The young couple became King and Queen in 1774 when Louis XV died of a rare disease, but this fact didn’t changed their boring and extravagant lifetyle: Louis XVI continued to put his delicious meals on the first places in the top of his priorities and Marie Antoinnette continued to amaze everyone with her sleepless and full of entertainments nights.
The Queen first became mother at 20 years. She gave birth to four children, but unfortunetly only two survived. She loved and adored her children, but despite this fact she continued her tumultuous life : friends, clothes, trips, parties.
While the royal couple was spoiling all their vanities, the French ordinary people were very poor and lived in misery. Marie Antoinnette was calm and sure that all this anger will pass. It wasn’t like that: the whole country shuddered at the atrocities. The furious Parisian crowed stormed Versailles and the Queen and the King were arrested and they spend almost two years in prison. June 20, 1791 the royal couple tried to escape, but their plan was a failure and were tranferred into a dark building from Paris. In January 1793 started the trial and the King was executed. Under the pressure of the people the court senteced Marie Antoinnette to death. She was carried through the parisian streets in a dirty wagon and the crowd hooted and insulted her. She was brought to the guillotine.
The victims of senseless human cruelity in the history remain in our minds, reminding us now of our irrational and imperfect thinking.
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