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Marie Antoinette (1755 - 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 is regarded as one of the most colorful figures in the French Revolution and divided nine months after her husband's fate on the scaffold. Wood engraving after a paintng by Jean-Baptiste van Loo (French painter, 1684 - 1745), published in 1873.