Marie Antoinette May 1774, the Dauphin ascended the throne as King Louis XVI of France and Navarre with Marie Antoinette as his Queen. At the outset, the new queen had limited political influence with her husband, who, with the support of his two most important ministers, Chief Minister Maurepas and Foreign Minister Vergennes, blocked several of her candidates from assuming important positions, including Choiseul. The queen did play a decisive role in the disgrace and exile of the most powerful of Louis XV's ministers, the Duke of Aiguillon. On 24 May 1774, two weeks after the death of Louis XV, the king
Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette end, starting with her transformation from Maria Antonia of Austria into the Marie Antoinette of France, and ending with the events of the French Revolution and Marie Antoinette's execution. Kate Beaton, cartoonist of webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant", devoted one of her comic strips to Marie Antoinette. In the two-part Season 6 finale of "Totally Spies!" Sam, Clover and Alex win a prize to stay in palace of Versailles itself. There, the spies' and their fashion-designer classmates are in a French fashion show based on Marie Antoinette and her favorite attire as Queen of France in the seventeenth century. Carolyn Meyer