Marie Antoinette (1755–1793) — an Austrian archduchess, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, married to the future Louis XVI at fourteen to seal an alliance France never trusted. She became queen at eighteen and was blamed for everything: her spending, her foreignness, her influence over a weak king. The line about cake was never hers, but the invention stuck, because France needed a face for its anger. She was imprisoned after the revolution, watched her husband go to the guillotine, was separate