2006-08-25 07:47:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
marie antoinette
2006-08-25 07:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Cheesie M 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Louis was preceded as king by his grandfather, Louis XV. Louis' father was the king's only son, the Dauphin de France (1729-1765), who died young and never ascended the throne. Louis' mother was Marie-Josèphe of Saxony, second wife of the Dauphin, and the daughter of Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
On 16 May 1770, when he was 15 and she 14, he married Marie Antoinette, daughter of Francis I of Austria and Empress Maria Theresa, a Habsburg. They were not able to have children for several years due to the fact that Louis XVI was not circumsized and did not have knowledge of what he was supposed to do. After a relative of Marie visited them, and explained certain situations, they had four children:
2006-08-25 07:53:21 · answer #2 · answered by god knows and sees else Yahoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marie Antoinette
2006-08-25 07:51:07 · answer #3 · answered by uknative 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marie Antoinette. They both lost their heads during the Revolution.
2006-08-25 07:50:03 · answer #4 · answered by graytrees 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marie Antoinette, she who is best known for the phrase, "let them eat cake!"
2006-08-25 07:55:26 · answer #5 · answered by zubinlcooper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, usually known as Marie Antoinette; (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria. She was a daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife Empress Regnant Maria Theresa of Austria and was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14. As Louis XVI's wife and mother of "lost dauphin" Louis XVII, she was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 and, subsequently, interred with her husband in the royal crypt at the Saint Denis Basilica in Paris. She was born Her Royal Highness Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia and Tuscany.
Born at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Maria Antonia was the fifteenth child of Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa. Of the names given at her christening, Maria honoured the Virgin Mary; Antonia honoured Saint Anthony of Padua; Josepha honoured her elder brother, Archduke Josef; and Johanna honoured Saint John the Evangelist[citation needed]. The court official described the new baby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess." She was brought up in the company of her similarly-aged siblings Maria Carolina (two years older) and Maximilian (one year younger); her other brothers, Joseph, Leopold and Ferdinand Karl, were already involved in the Habsburg Empire.
Legend states Maria Antonia and the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met as children, when Mozart gave a short musical concert for the Imperial Family. After the concert, Empress Maria Theresa asked the young Mozart what he would like as a reward. Much to the Empress's amusement, Mozart is said to have asked for the hand of Maria Antonia in marriage.
Maria Antonia's sisters were soon married to other European royalty: The eldest, Maria Christina, to the Regent of the Netherlands; Maria Amalia to the Prince of Parma; and Maria Antonia's favourite sister, Maria Carolina, to King Ferdinand of Naples.
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) was signed in 1748, which was hoped to end nearly a century and a half of intermittent fighting between Austria and France, and during the subsequent Seven Years' War (1756–1763), Austria and France were allied in the conflict. In an attempt to preserve this alliance, it was proposed that Louis XV of France's heir, his grandson Louis-Auguste, marry one of Empress Maria Theresa's daughters. When her elder sisters died of smallpox, Johanna Gabriella in 1762 and Maria Josepha in 1767, Maria Antonia was next in line to be married to the French prince.
After lengthy negotiations, the official proposal for the teenage girl was made by Louis XV in 1769. Only when the marriage treaty was signed did Maria Theresa realize her daughter lacked sufficient knowledge of French language and customs, and teachers of language and dancing tried to prepare the girl for the role as Queen of France as much as possible.
On 19 April 1770 a marriage per procurationem took place in Vienna's Augustine Church. A crying Maria Antonia left Vienna on 21 April 1770 to her mother's parting words, "Farewell, my dearest child. Do so much good to the French people that they can say that I have sent them an angel."
Travelling with a large entourage along the Danube, and then to Munich, Augsburg, Günzburg, Ulm and Freiburg im Breisgau, the Border at the Rhine between Kehl and Strasbourg was reached weeks later.
Marie Antoinette, painted by Franz Xaver Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in 1770On 7 May as a symbolic act [1], Maria Antonia was required to leave her Austrian attire, possessions, servants and even friends behind, and on a neutral island in the Rhine, a pavilion was erected through which the 14 year old crossed the border naked and alone, to be received by messengers from the French court, as Marie Antoinette, as she was known from then on.
2006-08-25 07:58:23 · answer #6 · answered by em. :] 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cheesie is right
2006-08-25 07:49:53 · answer #7 · answered by Penguin Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋