Marie-Antoinette is one of the most spoken about queens in history. She was the queen of France during the French revolution, and she had a very bad reputation. She was known for her wild partying and careless spending, which eventually led France to bankruptcy and poverty. Although she did all of these things, she gets too much blame for the poverty and revolution that existed in France during her reign. Marie was born in 1755, in Vienna. According to lucidcafe.com, she was the fairest-looking daughter of Maria Theresa, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. Her mother made sure that all her daughters married high standard people. Marie married Louis XVI, the heir of the French throne, when she was only 15 and he was 16. The main reason for their …show more content…
It seemed like he was bored with his high governmental role. He focused more on his own hobbies and spent more time practicing them than doing his job (pbs.org). Louis listened to anything his wife said. Marie was bored, too, since she didn't really have any major jobs to do. Her boredom led her to reside to the social life. She was always seen in court wearing the most expensive and latest fashions (pbs.org). She changed the mindset of women in her time. She was looked at as a fashion icon, too. One of her main expenses were her friends, too. Marie would get out of her way to get money so she could spend on them and throw parties for …show more content…
She tried to bring the taxes down on the poor that was 97% of the French population but they did not allow her to do that. At the beginning of the revolution, Louis held the National Assembly. The national assembly was when the members of all three estates of come together to make improvements and amendments in the name of France. This worked out well for a while, but then one day the members from the third estate were locked out of the courtroom. On July 14, a group of angry people raided the Bastille prison and stole weapons. This day is still celebrated today