Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France and wife to Louis XVI. She was a frivolous and selfish individual that escaped her mundane life at the Versailles court by building expensive havens like 'The Petite Triannon', a mile from Versailles, where she would engage in gambling and drinking with her friends. It was even believed she had her secret love affair with Count Axel Fersen in the Triannon. With her extravagence came the regular people's poverty. Taxes were too high and there was a shortage of food and everyone looked to Marie Antoinette, or 'The Austrian Bitch' as to blame for their suffering. Like her husband, she was imprisoned and beheaded in 1793.
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