Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France who helped provoke the popular unrest that led to the French Revolution and to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1792. She became a symbol of the excesses of the monarchy and is often credited with the famous quote “Let them eat cake,” though there is no evidence she actually said it.

Marie Antoinette (/ ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t -/; French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] i; Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I.

Marie Antoinette (born Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna von Österreich-Lothringen; November 2, 1755–October 16, 1793) was an Austrian noble and French Queen Consort whose position as a hate figure for much of France helped contribute to the events of the French Revolution, during which she was executed.

Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) Austrian-born queen of France whose misfortune was to be the wife of Louis XVI when that monarch was overthrown in the French Revolution of 1789, and whose poor judgment and provocative behavior led to her execution in the name of the Revolution.

Marie-Antoinette was the wife of the French King Louis XVI. While the common people of France suffered, Queen Marie-Antoinette spent money wildly and thought only of herself. This helped lead to the French Revolution. Marie-Antoinette stood for everything that the people of France disliked about the royal family.