Marie Antoinette

"Hey, my hair is a boat."

- Marie Antoniette

Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI and the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She has hair that some people say is like a boat.

Biography
Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1755 in Vienna. When she was aged 15, she married to Prince Louis of France. During their wedding all the nobles watched them getting into bed together. After the death of her grandfather-in-law, her husband became king. France's poor, suffering under the strain of economic ruin, watched as the nobility continued to live as though nothing was wrong. In particular, peasants grew increasingly disdainful of the queen as she continually to spend France's money on her own luxurious lifestyle and fashion. This eventually earned her the nickname Madame Deficient." While the peasants were breaking their backs in the fields, she was walking around with her boat hair. A crowd managed to break into a royal palace in Versailles with the intention of killing the Queen, who narrowly escaped through a secret passage in her bedroom. She and her husband tried to escape from France, but their plan failed, and both of them were executed for treason.

Appearances

 * The French Revolution (both parts)

Trivia

 * Marie's hair comes in different forms over the French Revolution series, including an AT-AT walker from Star Wars.
 * She is best remembered for her legend that when her subjects demanded her for food, she said, "Let them eat cake."
 * She has been nicknamed "L'Autrichienne," which means "The Austrian Dog" in French.
 * Like her husband, her character pin comes with a detachable head. This was likely meant to symbolize their deaths via the guillotine.
 * She was the first female OverSimplified character to have a character pin.