Life as a public figure was not easy for Marie Antoinette. In fact, the story of a fatuous noblewoman who said “Let them eat cake!” appears in the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, which was written around 1766 (when Marie Antoinette was just 11 years old). It was the beginning of Marie Antoinette’s life in the public eye.ĭid you know? There is no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever said that starving peasants should “eat cake” if they had no bread. More than 5,000 guests watched as the two teenagers were married. (They were 15 and 16 years old, and they had never met.) On May 16, 1770, a lavish second wedding ceremony took place in the royal chapel at Versailles. Four years later, Marie Antoinette and the dauphin were married by proxy in Vienna. In 1766, as a way to cement the relatively new alliance between the French and Habsburg thrones, Maria Theresa promised her young daughter’s hand in marriage to the future king Louis XVI of France. Marie Antoinette, the 15th child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1755–an age of great instability for European monarchies. She was convicted and sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793. In 1793, the king was executed then, Marie Antoinette was arrested and tried for trumped-up crimes against the French republic. After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal family was forced to live under the supervision of revolutionary authorities. The young couple soon came to symbolize all of the excesses of the reviled French monarchy, and Marie Antoinette herself became the target of a great deal of vicious gossip. Marie Antoinette: The French Revolutionīorn in Vienna, Austria, in 1755, Marie Antoinette married the future French king Louis XVI when she was just 15 years old.
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