Marie Antoinette (/mri ntwnt/ or /ntwnt/; French: i t t ; baptised Maria [1] Antonia Josepha (or Josephina) Johanna; 2 November

1755 16 October 1793), born an Archduchess of Austria, was Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and Queen of France and Navarre from 1774 to 1792. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa. In April 1770, upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, she became Dauphine of France. Marie Antoinette assumed the title of Queen of France and of Navarre when her husband, Louis XVI of France, ascended the throne upon the death of Louis XV in May 1774. After seven years of marriage, she gave birth to a daughter, Marie-Thrse Charlotte, the first of four children. The Palace of Versailles (English /vrs / vair-SY or /vrs / vr-SY; French: v sj ), or simply Versailles, is a royal chteau in Versailles in the le-de-France region of France. In French it is the Chteau de Versailles. When the chteau was built, Versailles was a country village; today, however, it is a wealthy suburb of Paris, some 20 kilometres southwest of the French capital. The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of theFrench Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Rgime. The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuseThe Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tu fl]) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the [1] world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; [2] [2] 6.98 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010. s of the monarchy: its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.