Princess to queen to guillotine: the tragic fate of Marie Antoinette

marie antoinette  The people of France were starving in the streets and it must have came up during a gathering Marie Antoinette lived in a dreamworld of luxury Is “Marie Antoinette” based on a true story? Yes, but with extensive dramatic license Created by British screenwriter Deborah Davis, who co-

Queen of France 1755-1793 Described by her brother, Emperor Joseph II, as “honest and lovable,” Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess and the wife of King A portrait of Marie Antoinette, a naïve teenager who was entirely unprepared to take her place in the turbulent history of late 18th century France

In Fabiola Jean-Louis' photograph, Marie Antoinette is Dead, a Black woman leans back into a sumptuous pillowed seat, her body language Marie Antoinette ăntwənĕtˈ, äNtwänĕtˈ , 1755–93, queen of France, wife of King Louis XVI and daughter of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa and Holy