Marie Antoinette's full name was Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, and she lived from November 2, 1755 to October 16, 1793. Marie was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France. She also was the Queen of Navarre and was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. When she was fourteen she married Louis Auguste, Dauphin of France. She became Dauphine de France because of the marriage.
Marie's husband ascended the throne of France as King Louis XVI, in May 1774 because of the death of King Louis XV. That is when she obtained the name, Queen of France and Navarre. After they have been married for seven years, they had a daughter named, Marie Thérèse Charlotte. The stories of Antoinette's excesses are vastly overstated. In fact, rather than ignoring France's financial crisis, she reduced the royal household staff, which eliminated many unnecessary positions that were based on privilege. That caused a mob of people to get angry.
She is often credited with saying the famous phrase “If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!” Oddly enough, there is no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever uttered those words. During her reign of royalty she was known as an extravagant woman who spent excessive amounts of money on clothing, furniture, gambling and diamonds. After an attempted escape from France from the mobs of people that turned wrong, the royal family was held captive for several years until they were put on trial for treason. After Marie Antoinette’s short and unfair trial she was condemned to death. Marie Antoinette was beheaded on October 16th, 1793 at the Place de la Concorde in Paris at age thirty-seven.
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