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Marie-Antoinette

queen of France
Also known as: Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna von Österreich-Lothringen, Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe-Jeanne d’Autriche-Lorraine(Show More)
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Marie-Antoinette (born November 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria—died October 16, 1793, Paris, France) was the Austrian queen consort of King Louis XVI of France (1774–93). Her name is associated with the decline in the moral authority of the French monarchy in the closing years of the ancien régime, though her courtly extravagance was but a minor cause of the financial disorders of the French state in that period. Her rejection of reform provoked unrest, and her...

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