Marie AntoinetteMarie Antoinette is perhaps one of the most famous French monarchs. Born an Austrian princess, she because one of the last monarchs to rule the French, Marie Antoinette had a great impact on French history but, above all, on the French Revolution. Unfortunately, she is remembered not as a great queen or ruler, but because of the way she and her husband died on the guillotine. Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1755. Her mother was Empress Maria Theresa and her father was the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. Maria's childhood was vaguely unremarkable; she grew up knowing that one day she would rule France. In 1770, at the age of fifteen, the Austrian princess Marie married the dauphin Louis. He was the heir to the throne of France. After his father's death he would become Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette would become queen. When she married for natural reasons, she lost everything Austrian in her, now she was French. Marie and Louis didn't have the most typical relationship, Marie was the dominant one. Louis showed no m...