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This caused many people to think that the royal family, especially Marie Antoinette, were plotting with foreign governments to overthrow the elected government. She helped plan the royal family's failed escape from Paris in 1791. It is not clear what caused the French Revolution, but there were far bigger causes than her spending. Many of these rumours were started by other people at the court, where Marie Antoinette had few friends. There was a rumour that when she learned that peasants were starving, she said "Let them eat cake," but there is no evidence she said this. There were rumours that she spent too much money, had lovers and supported France's enemies. It was not until during the French Revolution that she became an unpopular symbol of the old French monarchy ( Ancien Régime).
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France's alliance with Austria was unpopular the two countries had been enemies until 1756, and their alliance had led to France's defeat in the Seven Years' War. She was the mother of Louis XVII of France, who never actually became king.Īlthough she was not unpopular at first, many people in France did not want the country to have an Austrian queen. After seven years of marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, and later to three more children. They were not close at first, and at first it was difficult for them to have children. She married Louis in 1770, when she was 14 years old and four years before he became the king. She was born as Maria Antonia as an Archduchess of Austria. Marie Antoinette (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France, as the wife of King Louis XVI, before the monarchy was abolished in the French Revolution. (21 January 1815, at time of Bourbon Restoration)