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Marie Antoinette


Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI of France. She was born in
1755 in France and was the daughter of the Great Emperor Francis I and Maria
Theresa of Austria. Because here parents came from two countries at war with
each other, their marriage formed a peace treaty. Marie was very spoiled and
grew up with an extravagant lifestyle. She herself became the wife of the
next heir to the French throne to further keep the peace. The heir was Louis
XVI, who was a very dull and unsociable person. She was the opposite. She was
beautiful, vivacious and bent on pleasure. She became very insensitive to the
plight of poor people. When she was queen, her spending only aggravated the
difficult economic crisis of the country. She didn't seem to care. A famous
story about Marie has to do with a court official coming to her to tell her that
the people didn't have any bread to eat. She laughed and just said, "Let them
eat cake, then!". Whether or......

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