Queen Mary: Marie An-toinette (1755-1793) Wife of King Louis XVI of France. Born in Vienna, she is the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francois I. Out of political needs, the Austrian court married her to the French crown prince, later Louis XVI, in 1770. After arriving at the French court, he was keen on dancing parties, fun and banquets. He was extravagant and was known as the "Lady in Deficit". After the revolution began, he was more assertive and stubborn than Louis XVI. When the masses attacked the Bastille on July 14, 1789, they persuaded Louis XVI to take the soldiers to take refuge in Metz. She supported the king's rejection of the National Assembly's request to abolish the feudal system and restrict the king's power, which became a target of public criticism. In October 1789, he moved back to Paris from Versailles with Louis XVI, under the surveillance of the revolutionary masses. She acted secretly, begging for help from a group of exiled nobles, and fled secretly with the king in June 1791, but when she arrived in the border city of Waren, she was discovered and attempted to escape. In 1792, France declared war on Austria. She continued to collude with Austria and provided combat plans to foreign intervention forces in an attempt to suppress the revolution through external forces. After the incident was revealed, the French people were angered and led to the uprising of the people in Paris on August 10, 1792, which overthrew the monarchy. She was imprisoned in Dampur prison with the king. In October of the following year, he was handed over to the Revolutionary Court for trial, sentenced to death and sent to a guillotine.
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