Category:Marie Antoinette

Articles relating to Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), Queen consort of France (term 1774-1792). She was the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed, by guillotine, on the Place de la Révolution. Politically engaged authors have deemed her the quintessential representative of class conflict, western aristocracy and absolutism. Some of her contemporaries, such as Thomas Jefferson, attributed to her the start of the French Revolution.