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When the frivolous and loathed French queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded in October 1793, Europe woke up to the reality that no nation could live in peaceful isolation. In the build up to the killing of the queen and her husband earlier in the year, Europe had taken no notice of the goings on.
Marie, King Louis XVI’s queen, was the living symbol of all that had gone wrong in France. She was a figure of hate at home and indifference abroad. Married off to Louis when she was only 15, she never outgrew royal childishness. Her lofty imaginings lived on even after she became the queen. It would cost her head.
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