Annie Martin (beach volleyball)
Annie Martin( born 7 September 1981) is a Canadian female beach volleyball player.
She has represented her country at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Her current playing partner is Marie- Andrée Lessard.
Évelyne Lever
Évelyne Lever( known simply in English as Evelyne Lever) is a contemporary French historian and writer.
She was married to a French historian, Maurice Lever, who is the author of" Sade".
Lever was previously a research engineer at CNRS, and then began to focus more on 18th- century history.
In particular, she focuses on certain people, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour.
" Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France" was her first book to be published in the United States.
It is less extensive than Lever's French version(" Marie- Antoinette: la dernière reine"), and was written specifically for an American audience.
She continues to write on and about 18 th- century history.
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg.
She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Lodomeria and Galicia, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma.
By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Holy Roman Empress.
She started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died in October 1740.
Charles VI paved the way for her accession with the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 and spent his entire reign securing it.
He neglected the advice of Prince Eugene of Savoy, who averred that a strong military and a rich treasury were more important than mere signatures.
Eventually, he left behind a weakened and impoverished state, particularly due to the War of the Polish Succession and the Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739).
Moreover, upon his death, Saxony, Prussia, Bavaria, and France all repudiated the sanction they had recognised during his lifetime.
Frederick II of Prussia (who became Maria Theresa's greatest rival for most of her reign) promptly invaded and took the affluent Habsburg province of Silesia in the seven-year conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession.
In defiance of the grave situation, she managed to secure the vital support of the Hungarians for the war effort.
Over the course of the war, despite the loss of Silesia and a few minor territories in Italy, Maria Theresa successfully defended her rule over most of the Habsburg empire.
Maria Theresa later unsuccessfully tried to reconquer Silesia during the Seven Years' War.
Maria Theresa and her husband, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, had eleven daughters, including the Queen of France, the Queen of Naples and Sicily, the Duchess of Parma, and five sons, including two Holy Roman Emperors, Joseph II and Leopold II.
Of the sixteen children, ten survived to adulthood.
Though she was expected to cede power to Francis and Joseph, both of whom were officially
her co-rulers in Austria and Bohemia, Maria Theresa was the absolute sovereign who ruled with the counsel of her advisers.
Maria Theresa promulgated institutional, financial and educational reforms, with the assistance of Wenzel Anton of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz and Gerard van Swieten.
She also promoted commerce and the development of agriculture, and reorganised Austria's ramshackle military, all of which strengthened Austria's international standing.
However, she despised the Jews and the Protestants, and on certain occasions she ordered their expulsion to remote parts of the realm.
She also advocated for the state church and refused to allow religious pluralism.
Consequently, her regime was criticized as intolerant by some contemporaries.
Countess Lerchenfeld
Marie Walburge Gräfin Lerchenfeld, also known as Countess Lerchenfeld or Madame de Lerchenfeld, (died 1769) served Maria Theresa in Vienna as the governess of several of her children.
Marie Antoinette, future queen of France, was among her charges.
She appears in the book "Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles" from "The Royal Diaries".
In the book, she is a wonderful dancer and a kind woman, whom Marie Antoinette affectionately calls "Lulu".
Marie Antoinette Murat
Marie Antoinette Murat,( 3 January 1793, Labastide- Murat, Lot, French Republic – 19 January 1847, Sigmaringen, Principality of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen) was a member of the House of Murat.
Through her marriage to Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen, Marie Antoinette was also a member of the House of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen and Princess consort of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen.
Marie Antoinette was the niece of Joachim Murat, King of Naples from 1808 to 1815 and a brother- in- law of Napoleon Bonaparte, through marriage to Napoleon's youngest sister, Caroline Bonaparte.
Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg
Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, also "Manette" (Marie Antoinette Margarethe Mathilde; 28 May 1884 – 26 October 1944) was the second daughter of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and the Austrian-born Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz.
Rosalie Lamorlière
Rosalie Lamorlière (Rosalie Lamorliere in English; March 3, 1768 - February 2, 1848) was the last servant of Marie Antoinette, while the queen was in the Conciergerie, awaiting her trial and execution.
She was born on 19 March 1768, in Breteuil, France, to a shoemaker and his wife (who later died when Lamorlière was 12), and was one of seven siblings.
Although she never married, she had a child whose father is unknown.
Lamorlière lived some part of her life in "rue de Sèvres" in Paris.
Following the September Massacres, she was engaged for work by the Richards, up until 1799.
It is unknown what she looked like, as the only portrait known to be painted of her has been lost.
Apart from that, the only other existing painting of Lamorlière is "Marie-Antoinette, le matin de son exécution", painted by Tony Robert-Fleury during the 19th century, and he had never seen her.
Her tomb was erected by her daughter at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
"Rosalie Lamorlière, dernière servante de Marie-Antoinette" by Ludovic Miserole, a book on Lamorlière, was published in 2010.
It is only available in French.
Diva Amon
Diva Joan Amon is a marine biologist from Trinidad.
She is a Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions( MSCA) Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London.
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (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 were 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.
Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793.
Marie Antoinette's trial began on 14 October 1793, and two days later she was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on the Place de la Révolution.
Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers-Schlösser
Rose Marie Antoinette Blommers- Schlösser( Eindhoven, 1944) is a Dutch herpetologist and entomologist.

Question: What nationality is Marie Antoinette's mother?
Answer: Habsburg Empire