"Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette Exhibition: The Magnificent Habsburgs - A Story of Mother and Daughter," supervised by Riyoko Ikeda, 2005 Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) Born into the Habsburg family, one of the most powerful European houses since the Middle Ages, she was the French queen who married into the French Bourbon dynasty at the young age of 14. In 1789, the French Revolution abolished the monarchy, and following King Louis XVI, she was sent to the guillotine in 1793 at the young age of 37, ending her life as a tragic queen. Empress Maria Theresa of Austria planned a strategic marriage, a Habsburg family tradition, and married her daughter, Marie Antoinette, to Louis-Auguste (later Louis XVI), the grandson of King Louis XV of France. Biography World Art