Article: Marie Antoinette (17551793)

MARIE ANTOINETTE (1755 1793)

MARIE ANTOINETTE (1755 1793), queen of France. Jos è phe-Jeanne-Marie Antoinette (Maria Antonia, archduchess of Austria) married Louis-Auguste, dauphin of France, on 16 May 1770. Louis XVI (ruled 1774 1792) and Marie Antoinette ascended the throne in 1774. The youngest daughter of the sixteen children of Maria Theresa (1717 1780), archduchess of Austria and queen of Bohemia and Hungary, and Francis I (ruled 1745 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 ...

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