Marie Antoinette Persuasive Speech

Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna best known as Marie Antoinette, was the last queen of
France who helped with the provocation of the popular unrest that led to the French
Revolution and the overthrown of the French Monarchy of that moment in August
1792. She was born in November 2, 1775 and executed in October 16, 1793.She is quite famous in the present with the quote “Let them eat cake”, although there is no evidence she actually said it. She was married to the king Luis XVI. In 1776, she gave birth to Marie-Therese-Charlotte, because there was a rumor that she hadn’t had marriage consummation with her husband so her mother sends her brother to help counsel them. Whatever his counsels were, it worked quite efficiently. Marie
Antoinette had a syndrome,
It is said that the day before her execution her scalp grew totally white.
Marie Antoinette was executed by Guillotine on October 16, 1793.Several months before her husband (King Luis XVI) was executed by guillotine on January 21,1793 because he was put into trial and convicted into treason. By October, a month into the infamous “Reign of Terror” that claimed ten thousand of French citizen lives, Marie
Antoinette was put in trial for treason and theft, as well as her strange and disturbing charge of sexual abuse against her own son. After the two-day trial, she was sentenced to guillotine by an all-male jury. On the night before her execution, she sent her last letter to her sister in law, Elisabeth. "I am calm," the queen wrote, "as people are whose conscience is clear". Then in the moments before her execution, the priest told her to have courage and she responded "Courage? The moment when my ills are going to end is not the moment when courage is going to fail me."
When and where was Marie Antoinette born?
She was born on November 2, 1775, in Vienna Austria.
Family and early
Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI
In 1765, Louis dauphin of France, the son of the French monarch died. His death left the kings 11 th year old grandson in line for the throne. Within months later, Marie
Antoinette and Louis Auguste were pledged to marry each other. In 1768, the king of

France, Louis XV, dispatched a tutor to Austria to instruct his grandson's future wife.
The tutor found Marie Antoinette "more intelligent than has been generally supposed," but added that since "she is rather lazy and extremely frivolous, she is hard to teach." Marie Antoinette was a child only of 14 years, delicately beautiful, with gray- blue eyes, and ash blond hair. In May she set out for France to be married, escorted by
57 carriages,117 footmen, and 376 horses. Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste were married on May 16, 1770. The young woman did not adjust well to a married life for which she was obviously not ready, and her frequent letters home revealed