Marie Antoinette's Role Model

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“There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.” Marie Antoinette is a person of interest to some people, specifically historians. Her birthday was in Vienna, Austria on the specific date of November 2, 1755. Marie Antoinette grew up with royalty and immense number of financial assets. Also to add, she was not called Marie Antoinette while growing up, she later took that name after her she was relocated to France. During her child hood, she was known and called by Antonio or Antoine. While growing up, she had luxuries that the lower class back then could not afford such as private tutoring. Despite the tutoring and the combination of schooling, she did not establish any satisfactory results. However she did develop a good music talent …show more content…
Most outcomes of her reign were negative but were later fixed by the people by revolting and staging a coup. The only two good things that came out of her reign was the alliance seal between France and Austria that was weakening after the war with Prussia, and the change for the poor and hungry citizens and inhabitants of France of which Marie Antoinette put them into first. After Marie’s royal governing, she did not influence anyone to think or behave how they behave. She did such a bad job of leading a country that no person in history intended and did similar deeds. Nor was she anyone in history’s role model. Her only achievement that went in history is that for a revolution to happen, a negative is needed to stay in place. And Marie took that role of the negative for the change. Marie, in a way, helped kindle the fire to change for the French …show more content…
Her reign provided much dissatisfaction for the people of France. She essentially built her own casket and dug her own grave. “Courage, I have shown it for years; think you shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?” Her execution happened on October 16, 1793. “Executed by guillotine. Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your father.” Her death happened by decapitation of the French revolution capital execution machine, the guillotine. Antoine Louis created the guillotines design, but the contraption was named after a French medical doctor, Joseph Ignace Guillotine. Joseph Guillotine was against the death penalty set in France and wanted to develop a more “humane” way to execute a person. The guillotine was most commonly used for executions in the French revolution in 1789. “I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.” Her decapitation happened after the angry citizens of France rushed the building that Marie Antoinette was seeking asylum at. Her spouse, King Louis XVI also died by the “hands” of a guillotine. He was also taken hostage by the angry mobs of France and dragged him to a guillotine. His death took place at the Place de la Revolution separate from his spouse’s. Being a royal couple, it would only make sense that