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Marie Antoinette
Marie-Antoinette à la Rose by Vigée Le Brun
Queen consort of France and Navarre
Tenure	10 May 1774–21 September 1792
Spouse	Louis XVI of France
Issue
Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Duchess of Angoulême Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France Louis XVII of France Princess Sophie-Hélène Béatrix
House	House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Father	Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Maria Theresa I of Austria
Born	2 November 1755(1755-11-02) Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria
Died	16 October 1793 (aged 37) Paris, France
Burial	Saint Denis Basilica, France (21 January 1815, at time of Bourbon Restoration)

Marie Antoinette (pronounced /maʀi ɑ̃twanɛt/; German: Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen; French: Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne de Habsbourg-Lorraine); (Vienna, 2 November 1755 – Paris, 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria.

At the age of fourteen, on the day of her marriage to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, she became Dauphine de France. At the death of King Louis XV, in May 1774, her husband ascended the French throne as Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette assumed the title of Queen of France and of Navarre. After seven years of marriage she gave birth to a daughter, Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte de France, the first of their four children.

During the Reign of Terror, at the height of the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette's husband was deposed and the royal family was imprisoned. Marie Antoinette was tried, convicted of treason and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793, nine months after her husband.

In popular culture, the phrase "Let them eat cake" is often attributed to Marie Antoinette. However, there is no evidence to support that she ever uttered this phrase, and it is now generally regarded as a "journalistic cliché"^[1] which first appeared in The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.^[2]

Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Marriage to Louis: 1767–1770 3 Reign: 1774–1792 3.1 1774–1778: The early years 3.2 1778–1781: Motherhood 3.3 1782–1785: Declining popularity 3.4 July 1789–1792: The French Revolution 3.5 1793: "Widow Capet" and death 4 Historical legacy and popular culture 5 Family and ancestry 5.1 Family 5.2 Ancestry 6 Notes 7 References