Myths You Believe About Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette is known today as the last queen of France before the French Revolution toppled the French monarchy in the late 1700s. She has also been associated with a lifestyle of decadence and excess that prompted revolutionaries of the time to call her Madame Deficit. France's financial crisis at the time was blamed on Antoinette's lavish spending and she was swiftly convicted during her trial for high treason and executed by the infamous guillotine. She may be an infamous figure in history, but recent movie depictions of Marie Antoinette has softened views of her. Here are myths about her that you have believed in the past.

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Let them eat cake | 0:00
Heartless toward the poor | 1:19
She was an ice queen | 2:00
She was blonde | 2:47
She was French | 3:46
She bankrupted France with shopping | 4:39
She wore only the finest clothes | 5:41
She was obsessed with shoes | 6:51
She was promiscuous | 8:01
She held the real power | 8:46
An inevitable execution | 9:53

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