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Marie Antoinette: A Careless Woman

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Marie Antoinette was she the careless women that said to the citizens of her country “Let them eat cake,” as they were starving to death in the streets, or was she a woman trying her best to keep her life in order during a great crisis, caused by the very people that turned her into a monster. Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution, a time known as the Reign of Terror, and her entire life was being changed in front of her eyes. Marie Antoinette had an extremely posh lifestyle that she was desperate to

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