Marie Antoinette is probably one of the most remembered yet misunderstood women in history. Her name is not only synonymous with the French Revolution and her infamous saying, "Let them eat cake", but also with selfishness, greed, excessiveness, cold-heartedness and so on (Reid 2). Another aspect that is commonly not associated with Marie Antoinette is that her life was like that of a lot of women in the 18th century. Women, especially those in royalty, were seen more as bargaining tokens than women and marriages were not based on mutual love, respect, and caring, but on some alliance or union (Lewis 1). So is the case with Marie. Even before she started her adolescent life, her life and its course were being dictated by other people and other events beyond her control.
Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1775 as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. Maria Theresa ruled the great Hapsburg Empire from her palace, called Schonbrunn, in Vienna......
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