Index Card #11

http://www.who2.com/marieantoinette.html
Summary: This article like the other ones I found mainly talks about how she became the dauphine of France, her extravagant lifestyle, and how she went down in history as the arrogant monarch who said let them eat cake when told that the peasants were starving because they had no bread. She was known as a big spender and was addictided to gambling. The daughter of Francis I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. She married the prince of France in 1770. 4 years late she became queen. As revolution swept Paris in 1789, the king and queen tried to flee but failed. While the revolutionaries were trying to hash out a new system of government, Marie and Louis XVI were stuck as prisoners at the palace at Tuileries. Failing to get help from royal supporters in England, Prussia and Austria, they were arrested and charged with treason in 1792. Louis was beheaded on 21 January 1793 and Marie was beheaded months later, on 16 October 1793.