Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Marie Antoinette is today known as the French Queen, executed by the guillotine during the French Revolution. Much has been said and written about her, and modern historians agree that her life was a mixture of pleasure and genuine horror.
There is no doubt Marie Antoinette was beautiful when she was young, but she was also naive, and her life in France was not a rose garden. The French people hated her. She had to deal with evil gossip and horrible accusations, but what is the truth behind her dramatic life story? Was she a bad woman or a victim of manipulation she could not foresee?
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