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Queen of France from 1774. She was the
daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria,
and married Louis XVI of France in 1770. Her
reputation for extravagance helped provoke
the French Revolution of 1789. She was tried
for treason in Oct 1793 and guillotined.
Marie Antoinette influenced her husband to
resist concessions in the early days of the
Revolution, for example, Mirabeau's plan for
a constitutional settlement. She instigated
the disastrous flight to Varennes, which
discredited the monarchy, and welcomed
foreign intervention against the Revolution,
betraying French war strategy to the
Austrians in 1792.