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Article: Marie Antoinette (1755–1793)
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MARIE ANTOINETTE (1755
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1793)
MARIE ANTOINETTE
(1755
–
1793), queen of France. Jos
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phe-Jeanne-Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia, archduchess of Austria) married Louis-Auguste, dauphin of France, on 16 May 1770. Louis XVI (ruled 1774
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1792) and Marie Antoinette ascended the throne in 1774. The youngest daughter of the sixteen children of Maria Theresa (1717
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1780), archduchess of Austria and queen of Bohemia and Hungary, and Francis I (ruled 1745
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1765), Holy Roman emperor, Marie Antoinette wed at age fifteen to secure a tenuous Franco-Austrian alliance. A French tutor educated the archduchess in religion, history, the classics, and the arts. Not an ...