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Marie Antoinette

Portrait of Marie Antoinette

Queen of France and Navarre · Queen of France · 1755–1793

The Austrian queen of France who became the face of a doomed monarchy as the Revolution swept Versailles away.

Why Marie Antoinette is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Marie Antoinette can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Marie Antoinette — five chapters

  1. A Treaty in a Wedding Dress — Vienna, and a fourteen-year-old sent to France
  2. The Queen They Wrote About — Spending, privacy and a river of pamphlets
  3. Revolution and the Flight to Varennes — The royal family become prisoners
  4. The Temple and the Trial — A prisoner, a mother, and a court
  5. The Queen as a Symbol — Two centuries of reinvention

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