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Marie Antoinette
Even though history portrayed Marie Antoinette in a bad way, she was actually an intelligent and concerned with humanity.
Marie Antoinette was born November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria. She was the youngest and most beautiful daughter one of sixteen children of Francis Stephen I and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. Marie Antoinette was brought up believing her destiny was to become queen of France.
Unlike so many royal couples, her parents had married for love and truly enjoyed family life. Although the court was a place of great formality on important occasions, in private the royal family was rather casual. Marie dreaded her mother but was close to her good-natured father. A shadow fell over Marie Antoinette's sunny life in 1765, when her father died of a stroke at the age of 56.
A few years later, Marie Antoinette’s childhood came to an end. Her mother had arranged Marie Antoinette's marriage to the dauphin (crown prince) of France to cement an alliance between Austria and France. In 1770, at age fourteen, Marie Antoinette left her homeland and traveled to the French palace of Versailles to be married.
Her fifteen -year-old groom, Louis, was fat, awkward, and kind of shy. He neglected his royal duties, instead he enjoyed hunting or working in his locksmith shop. He also suffered from a medical condition known as phimosis, which prevented him from fathering children for the first seven years of his marriage. The public, knowing nothing of this, blamed Marie Antoinette for her failure to bear heirs to the throne, as she would so often be blamed for things beyond her control.
In 1774, the old king died and Marie Antoinette's husband became King Louis XVI. Three years later he had minor surgery that enabled him to father children. Marie Antoinette's first child, Marie Therese Charlotte, (called Madame Royal) was born the following year. By most accounts, Marie Antoinette...
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