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Ludvig XVI (fransk: Louis XVI) (født 23. august 1754, død 21. januar 1793) var Frankrikes konge fra 1774 til 1792. Han var den siste franske eneveldige konge, og ble til slutt offer for revolusjonen. Med én stemmes overvekt ble han dømt til døden, og henrettet ved giljotinering den 21. januar 1793.

Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne, born Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the monarchy in 1792. She was beheaded in 1793, during the Reign of Terror, a period of political violence in the French Revolution.

Marie was born an Austrian archduchess, to the house of Habsburg-Lorraine. She was the 15th child of Maria Theresa and her husband Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and the couple's last daughter. In 1769, Marie was betrothed to the dauphin of France, Louis-Auguste, as part of a move to strengthen the Franco–German alliance. She married Louis in 1770, when she was 14 and he was 15, becoming Dauphine of France. In 1774, Louis-Auguste inherited the French throne as Louis XVI, becoming King of France, and Marie Queen.

As queen, Marie Antoinette became increasingly a target of criticism by opponents of the domestic and foreign policies of Louis XVI and those opposed to the monarchy in general. The French libelles accused her of being profligate, promiscuous, having illegitimate children, and harboring sympathies for France's perceived enemies, including her native Austria. She was falsely accused of defrauding the Crown's jewelers in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, but the accusations still damaged her reputation. During the French Revolution, she became known as Madame Déficit because the country's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to social and financial reforms proposed by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker.

Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during the Revolution after the government placed the royal family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in October 1789. The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition were immensely damaging to her image among French citizens. On 10 August 1792, the attack on the Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the Legislative Assembly, and they were imprisoned in the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. On 21 September 1792, France was declared a republic and the monarchy was abolished. Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. Moved to the Conciergerie, Marie Antoinette's trial began on 14 October 1793; two days later, she was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793 at the Place de la Révolution.