Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette (; ; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre, which she held
Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette well as Elena Maria Vidal's 1998 book "Trianon". A 2000 book in the young adult "the Royal Diaries" series is about Marie Antoinette's journey to France as a teenager, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France, 1769-1771). The two best-known movie portrayals of Marie Antoinette have been in the 1938 film "Marie Antoinette", directed by W. S. Van Dyke, in which the Norma Shearer played the queen, and the 2006 film "Marie Antoinette", directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst. "The Affair of the Necklace" is a 2001 film in which Hilary Swank played Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy and Joely Richardson