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=B. Summary of Evidence (500-600 words) Tips]=

When Marie Antoinette has come on the 7th May, 1770, in France for marrying the Dauphin, Louis August, she was only fourteen years old. Her marriage on 17th May, 1770, in Versailles marked the beginning of the rumours about Marie Antoinette. As example, people were saying that the wedding’s evening that nothing has happened and it could be possible that Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin were infertile. As well, at the court some were saying that the marriage will be cancelled and France will send back Marie Antoinette to Austria. Marie Antoinette didn’t respect the protocol established which made a scandal, at the court. However, in the eyes of French citizens, she seemed still being on old regime. Her education was poor and very limited, she hadn’t been prepared for politics, and it seems that the education of Marie Antoinette was forsaken. As well, she couldn’t see changement of the French kingdom. In addition, Marie Antoinette didn’t approve the relation between the king Louis XV and his mistress, la Comtesse du Barry. Marie Antoinette was one of the favourites of Louis XV, she was asked by her mother to make effort for accepting la Comtesse du Barry as she was. As a result, one day, Marie Antoinette has seen la Comtesse du Barry, and Marie Antoinette has said, “There are a lot of people, today, at Versailles”, du Barry was pleased. For Marie Antoinette, the improvements of a constitutional monarchy weren’t possible. Marie Antoinette is asked several times by the Governor of Austria, Mercy-Argenteau sent by Marie Therese, to have a child with Louis XVI as a result of maintaining the alliance between the two countries. Earlier, in 1773, when Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette have been to Paris, as their” official visit”, the French court and citizens have started to rename her as the “Autrichienne” (Austrian). French didn’t like Marie Antoinette because she was a stranger. Also, most of Marie Antoinette’s friends had a bad reputation, and her interest for Austria, made French in an unsure position. When Louis XV died, Marie Antoinette has changed the principles of Versailles; she established her own lifestyle, she’s used to have when she was a child. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI became Queen and King of Bourbon. Since Louis XV’s death, she started to spend a lot of money, in fact, France was suffering from crisis. Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI lived separately; Marie Antoinette demanded to build the little Trianon. At this time of history, she loved going parties; opera and spending a lot of money for clothes, Versailles’s garden without King’s permission, and she liked gambling, too.