Marie Antoinette - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Marie Antoinette was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife effectively executed the real power of those positions. With his wife, Maria Theresa, he was the founder of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty...

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In April 1770, on the day of her marriage to Louis-Auguste

Louis XVI of France

Louis XVI was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793....

, Dauphin of France, she subsequently became Dauphine of France. Marie Antoinette assumed the title of Queen of France and of Navarre when her husband, Louis XVI of France

Louis XVI of France

Louis XVI was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793....

, ascended the throne upon the death of Louis XV

Louis XV of France

Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...

in May 1774.

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Quotations

I put on my rouge and wash my hands in front of the whole world!

Expressing her irritation at her very public life as royalty. She gave birth to her first child in her bedchamber before an audience of hundreds of courtiers.

A son would have belonged to the state, but you shall be mine, and have all my care; you shall share my happiness and soften my sorrows.

About her first child, Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte|Marie Thérèse Charlotte.

Mon chou d'amour is charming, and I love him madly. He loves me very much too, in his own way, without embarrassment.

Of her youngest son Louis XVII of France|Louis Charles

I'm fine, don't worry.

Short note to the Austrian ambassador to France, after the march on Versailles|Versailles

The Church. The Church... we're next.

Whispered to the Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel|Marquise de Tourzel on learning of the creation of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy|Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790) subordinating the rights and privileges of the Roman Catholic Church to those of the revolutionary government of France.

If I have not replied it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother.

When pressed to answer accusations that she had sexual relations with her young son.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

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