Marie Antoinette Quotes


In a month's time, I shall be able to give your Majesty news of the Comtesse de Provence, for the marriage is fixed for May 14th; they had prepared many fetes for this marriage, but now they are economising in them for want of money.


Citations

Antoinette, Marie. The Letters of Marie Antoinette. Edited by Charles Duke Yonge, Hurst and Blackett, 1876, p. 28.

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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette
  • Born: November 2, 1755
  • Died: October 16, 1793
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Royalty

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She became dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she became queen.