Marie-Antoinette

The daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Franz I and Maria Theresia. Marie-Antoinette was born in Vienna on November 2, 1755 and given the name, Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna von Österreich-Lothringen. She married a young French noble in 1770, the dauphin Louis. He would become the King of France and rule with the name, Louis XVI. Marie thus became the queen of France. It was a bad time though to be the queen of France. She was thought by the French to be  frivolous and a lacking in regard for the people. The French called her "that Austrian".  At one point, as legend has it, she said "Let them eat cake!", when informed that the people had no bread. Angry French masses stormed the Bastille in 1789. Marie alienated the French further by her attempts to persuade her brother, the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II to conduct a counterrevolutionary crusade against France. The monarchy was finally terminated in 1792 and she was imprisoned. She survived until 1793 when her head was removed by guillotine.