Blog Assignment #12-M.Antoinette

     Marie Antoinette was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis 1. At the age of 14, on the day of her marriage to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, she became the Dauphine de France. Initially charmed by her personality and beauty, the French people generally came to dislike her, accusing 'the Austrian' of being profligate and promiscuous, and of harboring sympathies for France's enemies.

                Marie Antoinette's effect on the Revolution of France started well before 1789.