Madeline Hill P42/21/14“I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do it.” These were the last words of historical figure Marie Antoinette, right before she was executed for treason. Considered very scandalous in her time, she lived a very interesting life: she made the famous quote "Let them eat cake" and was accused of treason. Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1755 in the Hofburg Palace, Vienna, France with the birth name Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna. His parents were Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Empress Maria Theresa. He lived a very relaxed childhood, playing with ordinary children. She and her brothers were treated to gardens and menageries. The education she experienced was typical of an eighteenth-century aristocratic girl, learning mainly religious and moral subjects. Although he had a close relationship with his older sister, Maria Carolina, his relationship with his mother was different. Marie Antoinette resented her mother and did not spend enough time trying to show her love. Her mother left the raising of her children to a governess and pawned her daughters off to several political figures as wives. Marie Antoinette and Louis Auguste were promised to marry in 1765 a few months after the death of Louis Augeste's grandfather, Louis XV, Emperor of France. . Marie Antoinette left for France to get married, escorted by fifty-seven carriages, one hundred and seventeen infantry, and three hundred and seventy-six horses in May 1770. They married on May 16, 1770, although she was not ready for marriage. the wedding. He often wrote home saying he was homesick and felt uncomfortable with some practices in France. She was made queen at the age of nineteen. As for the personalities, Louis and Marie Ant...... middle of paper ......reason and theft and falsely for sexual abuse against their own child. After the two-day trial, an all-male jury found Marie Antoinette guilty of all charges. Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793. In the moments before her execution, when the priest present told her to have courage, Marie Antoinette replied: "Courage? The moment in which my woes will end is not the moment in which the courage will fail me." There are two views on her life: one is that she is a villain. While the other paints her as a heroine of her time. Both of these opinions are proof of how his life was the symbol of the fall of European monarchies in the face of revolution. Thomas Jefferson once said, predicting how Marie Antoinette would be viewed by posterity: "I have always believed that if there had been no queen, there would have been no revolution".."