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Through a marriage between royal families arranged by her mother, the Queen of Austria
Explanation
It was Marie Thérèse, Queen of Austria, who pushed for her daughter to be wed to the heir to the French throne. This in turn led to her being crowned. The most solid pillar supporting the monarchies were marriages between royal families, and in this case Marie's mother was trying to protect their alliance with France which until that time had not been seen as a good deal for the residents of Versailles.
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Dressing and undressing of Marie, with the help of a team of ladies-in-waiting
Explanation
Hour after hour it was one ritual after another and always the same, including dressing upon waking, lever – which included the “toilette” carried out with the help of a party of ladies-in-waiting – and the undressing, coucher. The "privilege of entering" these "functions" was a much-aspired-to sign of prestige.
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“Pardon me, Sir, I meant not to do it"
Explanation
Having arrived at the square where the guillotine was set up, with her "gliding" step that in the rooms of Versailles the courtiers had observed with great enthusiasm, she climbed the steps to the guillotine, stopping only to apologize to the executioner for having stepped on his foot: " Pardon me, Sir, I meant not to do it”.
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She played hide-and-seek and ran up and down the long galleries of the imperial palace.
Explanation
Marie Antoniette was a happy, lively, and carefree child, who loved to play hide-and-seek running breathlessly along the corridors of the imperial palace. Its two thousand six hundred rooms, which were functional but not spacious, offered her a chance for lots of fun...and lots of hiding places!
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It was a scam perpetrated by Countess with the queen as its victim
Explanation
Jeanne de Saint-Rémy, Comtesse de la Motte, who was gifted with inventiveness and diabolical cunning, had convinced the unwitting and naïve Cardinal de Rohan to purchase a very expensive necklace at the queen's request, a request that did not actually exist. The dishonest and complex plot was hard to explain and caused a stir, contributing to ruining Marie Antoinette's reputation and the monarchy’s prestige.
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Locks
Explanation
The king loved hunting and mechanical works, and he had a small laboratory where he built locks.
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Mozart
Explanation
Surrrounded by their children, Marie Thérèse and Francis listened to the young Mozart and his sister for six hours. Legend has it that the "six-year-old" genius took advantage of the occasion to throw himself at Marie Antoniette's feet to declare that he would marry her one day. This may not be the way things really went, but the anecdote is quite plausible.
Right answer:
The director of a station along the way, who recognized the queen
Explanation
On 10 June 1791, during the night, the hopeful and bold flight from Paris of the royal family began. Unfortunately, a series of complications, delays, changes of the horses and the wrong road taken caused the director of a station along the way in a small town in Northern France to recognize the queen, and assume that the man next to her was the king. He sounded the alarm and called the soldiers, who did not manage to block the fugitives, however. But it was just a matter of time: in a nearby town they were stopped and arrested.
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