Some cousins recently asked me this after we all wrote down our heroes in a get-to-know-you game. Though I’ve studied about Marie-Antoinette the last five years, I stumbled. There’s so much to say! I said first what she wasn’t, which I sort of regretted. One cousin asked if it was the “let the eat cake” lady. I explained that Marie-Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake. ” We talked about where the myth came from and the French Revolution.

But I’ve been thinking of what a simple answer is to “Who’s Queen Marie-Antoinette?”

How about this–

“Queen Marie-Antoinette was queen of France during the French Revolution. She stood by her husband through it all and was very protective of her children.”

I think that’s a good place to start.

Interested in my other posts about my heroine? Then I invite you about to read about how I view Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI as couple, a book review, and how I formed a positive view about her.

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Arrest of Louis XVI and his Family, Varennes, 1791 by Thomas Falcon Marshall