How could she be executed if she became a queen being an heiress.

Pure girl I feel horrible for the people who were excecuted on made up charges just because someone wants to get rid of her.

The Woman didn't want to be a queen she could just have abdicatted the throne and be a Dutches or something like that.


It's really tragic that she died so young or what about something like what Edward Henry's son recived which is king for just a few years till heiress is ready to rule her country

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Thanks for your explanation and information you gave me
it helped me a lot.

Of course I still think her death was unfair and sad but at least makes more scense now.

First she wasn't french

Second I now finally know she was a consort queen so the excecution was possible but unfair because like Anne Boleyn was excecuted by made up charges.


Third well seems like the monarchy was kind of fake.
They were just rich people with a noble tittle.

Why are you equating British Monarch history and facts with French Monarch history and facts and this movie which is a playful, colorful movie showing HOW MA got to be beheaded???????


I just felt that something in her tragic death didn't make sense to me and maybe it's silly but I just though France and England being similar countries I thought the rules for their monarchs were almost the same.



She was NOT a queen by heritage... not in France, anyway. Not even in Austria. She was a princess of Austria, the Dauphine of France and then Queen of France because she married Louis


I didn't know this before i wrote my original post and wait she still was part of a royalty since she was born.
Couldn't have that help her

tecnically, marie-antoinette's execution stemmed from her being found guilty of all charges against her at her trial, to include dilapidating the nation's finances, molesting her son, and, most importantly, treason in the form her sending intelligence to france's enemies. at a more symbolic level, she represented perceived abuse of the ancien régime, and so had to go. she couldn't abdicate, because, as others have mentioned, she was not a queen regnant and never actually ruled, and at any rate the monarchy had been abolished in august of 1792.

it's more complicated than that. the king's execution was a complex political statement meant to undo centuries of tradition and symbolism attached to the person of the king as well as establish once and for all the french republic in the eyes of other european powers. by trying the king before a jury, physically beheading him, and buying the remains in an unmarked grave, the revolutionaries destroyed the aura of monarchy, reducing him to a mere mortal and, it was believed, setting a precedent against the future establishment of monarchy in france.

the queen's execution was different. she had no official political power before or after the fall of the ancien régime, and as a woman did not stand to inherit any. she might have served as regent for her son, but she would never have been allowed to rule as a queen regnant because of salic law, which only allowed men to rule in france. in essence she was executed to satiate revolutionary blood lust and because her name had become synonymous with pre-revolutionary excess and treason against the republic. she was found guilty on all counts, including abusing her son, despite the fact that no proof was ever presented. sure, she had sent papers to austria, but by the time of trial, the evidence was vienna, not paris. it was a complete sham.

so yes, the royal family was "taken out" for a more democratic system to be born... a system that in france lasted less than 10 years, at which point napoléon came to power wielding more authority than louis XVI or even louis XIV ever did. did the king's wife and sister have to die? did his son have to suffer a year of abuse and isolation in prison at the hands of his revolutionary "caretakers?" i don't think so.

I have mixed feelings about Marie Antoinette's fate, especially since it doesn't seem like she was old enough or aware enough of her country's condition to know why she was hated. Most of those who hated her didn't know why, really, other than the fact that they were starving. Much of this was caused by a terrible series of years in which the temperature fell, summers became cold and wet and grain wouldn't grow.

In countries like England, they switched to staples like potatoes, but the French refused to do so, demanding their bread! It was their downfall. The French Revolution, like its monarchy was quite disorganized and confused, unlike the preceeding American revolution, which wasn't just people reacting to hunger and envy, but wanting economic and political freedom. Just look how quickly the French adopted a new dictator: Napoleon!

But as someone said, the lifestyles of the monarchy in those times are very similar to that of the rich today. They are isolated and all the young people do is jet around, partying and buying outrageously expensive things while their hedge fund parents destroy the Western economy! And amazingly, NOBODY goes to jail for it! Not as yet (exc. for a few patsies).

So, I see Marie & Louis as just another couple of spoiled, witless teens who needed to get serious and appease the people, but were too out of it to do so. They had terrible advice from their elders, or none at all.



She deserves her revenge, and we deserve to die.

Okay, but why execute? Why not just abolish the monarchy( which was done) and dethrone the royals? What possible danger could Marie Antoinnete present, after 1792- or even before. But definitely after. It shows deep bloodlust and massive insecurity. Even if Louis tried to conspire with the Austrians to invade France, it is very, very unlikely that MA would have attempted any such thing on her own.

I was thinking along those same lines.

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Our originator watches a program that portrays the legal protocol during the stable years of a dynasty, in England, 500 years ago and after watching a movie, "has huge doubts about the execution" of Antoinette after she/he? applies the program to what took place in FRANCE, 200 years ago, during one of the bloodiest revolutions in modern history that ended French Royalty.

Makes perfect sense.

For the record, almost ALL the Royals,(by birth or marriage) and Nobility who remained in Paris during the revolution were executed with little or no legal process.