Marie Antoinette

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Marie Antoinette (1755–93) Queen of France. Daughter of Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa of Austria, she married the future Louis XVI in 1770. Her life of pleasure and extravagance contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. She initiated the royal family's attempt to escape in 1791, was held prisoner, and then finally guillotined.

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