Marie Antoinette To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. Please improve the article or discuss proposed changes on the talk page. See Wikipedia's guide to writing better articles for suggestions. Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lorraine (usually known as Marie Antoinette; 2 November 1755 - 16 October 1793) was Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria. She was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria; wife of Louis XVI of France; and mother of "lost dauphin" Louis XVII. As Louis XVI's wife, she was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution in 1793 and subsequently interred with her husband in the royal crypt at the Saint Denis Basilica in Paris.