MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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She was Austrian
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She was accused of interfering with political decisions that her husband was expected to make.
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She built a make-believe peasant village at Le Petit Trianon
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All of the Above
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Detailed explanation-1: -She was accused of interfering with political decisions that her husband was expected to make.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to the penal code of France, this warranted her death. Marie Antoinette could not have avoided her fate that awaited her at the guillotine. Since the time of her arrival in France in 1770, Marie Antoinette was constantly criticized and humiliated for her supposed failures as both a wife and a royal.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marie-Antoinette was queen of France from 1774 to 1793 and is associated with the decline of the French monarchy. Her alleged remark “Let them eat cake” has been cited as showing her obliviousness to the poor conditions in which many of her subjects lived while she lived decadently, but she probably never said it.
Detailed explanation-4: -The former French queen was found guilty of treason in October, 1793, and sentenced to death. In 1793, four years after the French Revolution began, Marie Antoinette was no longer Queen of France.