40 Decadent Historical Facts About Marie Antoinette

“Let them eat cake!” Marie Antoinette is known for living in the lap of luxury and for her extraordinary spending habits. The last Queen of France before the French Revolution, the story of Antoinette’s rise from a young girl in Austria to French fashion icon is one the historians and the media love to embellish upon. However, what was Antoinette’s life really like? Much of what is written about Marie Antoinette is based on the anti-royal propaganda that was spread prior to the French Revolution. She was believed to be someone who overspent on all the luxuries of life, while her people suffered yet this couldn’t be further from the truth. Here at FunnyAnd, we wanted to separate the fact from fiction and provide you with 40 incredible and ravishing facts about Marie Antoinette. We have to warn you though…some may be quite shocking!