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Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.

Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.

Queen of France from 1774 to 1792
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORYFRANCE18TH CENTURYHISTORICAL EVENTS
🗓️ 19 April 1770

Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

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