Marie Antoinette | Wikipedia audio article
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Marie Antoinette


00:02:09 1 Early life (1755–70)
00:03:56 2 Dauphine of France (1770–74)
00:07:10 3 Queen of France and Navarre (1774–91)
00:07:23 3.1 Early years (1774–78)
00:10:08 3.2 Motherhood, changes at court, intervention in politics (1778–81)
00:15:24 3.3 Declining popularity (1782–85)
00:22:25 3.4 Prelude to the Revolution: scandals and the failure of reforms (1786–89)
00:22:39 3.4.1 Diamond necklace scandal
00:24:43 3.4.2 Failure of political and financial reforms
00:30:45 4 French Revolution before Varennes (1789–91)
00:35:04 4.1 Mirabeau
00:37:39 4.2 Civil Constitution of the Clergy
00:39:11 5 Flight, arrest at Varennes and return to Paris (21–25 June 1791)
00:41:29 6 Radicalization of the Revolution after Varennes (1791–92)
00:44:21 7 Events leading to the abolition of the monarchy on 10 August 1792
00:49:02 7.1 Louis XVI's trial and execution
00:49:38 8 Marie Antoinette in the Temple
00:51:55 8.1 Conciergerie
00:52:49 9 Trial and execution (14–16 October 1793)
00:56:18 10 Legacy
00:57:35 11 In popular culture
00:58:55 12 Ancestry
00:59:04 13 Children
01:00:51 14 See also



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Marie Antoinette (; French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt]; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre, which she held until September 1791, when she became Queen of the French as the French Revolution proceeded, a title that she held until 21 September 1792.
After eight years of marriage, Marie Antoinette gave birth to Marie Thérèse, the first of her four children. A growing percentage of the population came to dislike her, accusing her of being profligate and promiscuous and of harboring sympathies for France's enemies, particularly her native Austria. The Affair of the Diamond Necklace damaged her reputation further. During the Revolution, she became known as Madame Déficit because the country's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to the social and financial reforms of Turgot and Necker.
Several events linked to Marie Antoinette during the Revolution, after the government had placed the royal family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in October 1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition had disastrous effects on French popular opinion. On 10 August 1792, the attack on the Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the Assembly, and they were imprisoned in the Temple Prison on 13 August. On 21 September 1792, the monarchy was abolished. Her trial began on 14 October 1793, and two days later Marie Antoinette was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution.