Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, a Holy Roman Emporer, King of Hungary and Bohemia and Grand Duke of Tuscany, a Governor of the Duchy of Milan, Modena and Reggio and one who would become the very last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette.
She is alleged to have said 'Let them eat cake' when she found out the people of France were out of bread and starving which makes her sound a right bitch but in an impressive game of Chinese Whispers which included the British writer Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, it became attributed to her.
She married Louis XVI when she was 14 and he was 15 and the main part of why she was so hated by the French was because the country was bankrupt due to him sending massive amounts of Francs to support the American Revolution but she did have particular grand tastes, liking diamonds, gold and beautiful clothes and on the farm attached to the Palace she had the animals sprayed with expensive perfume because they stank which seems fair enough, more perfume at farms is a ruling i could definitely agree with.
Once imprisoned by the Revolutionaries and after a disastrous escape pan was foiled, it was off to the guillotine they went and after watching her husbands head bounce off the block and into a basket, she climbed the steps and accidentally stepped on the executioners foot and naturally apologised for her clumsiness.
Looking back now she probably should have just kicked him really, really hard in the knackers because what was the worst he could do?
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