Marie-antoinetteMarie Antoinette (17551793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of Frances aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the countrys monarchy. The great material privileges she enjoyed and her glamorous role as an arbiter of fashion and a patron of the arts in the French court, set against her tragic death on the