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toc picture of Marie Antoinette's village "Petit Trianon" (In the palace that king Louis gave to her ) (more pictures at the bottom) = = -France was governed by Louis the sixteenth (Louis XVI) -Louis was absolute monarch(did not share power with anyone) -He lived with thousands of nobles in thousand-room palace of versailles - Louis and Marie Antoinette got married in 1770(Louis was fifteen and Marie was fourteen) -At first they were popular in French public, but people start to dislike them(*especially Marie Antoinette.)
 * France Before the revolution Note #2 pg 13-18 **

Marie Antoinette
reasons why people disliked her: -she was foreign (Austrian) -spend lot of money on clothes, jewellery and gambling. -people though that she is not unfaithful to Louis

ex. In 1774, when Louis gave her small palace in the ground of the palace of Versailles, she spend huge amount of money on create garden, villages(hamlet) that all looked very old. -citizens and even one of loyal courtiers thought that she is wasting money on silly things.

BUT some people defended Marie Antoinette -her foster-brother -some modern historians
 * he said that she settled twelve poor families in village

Use and abuse of power
Another reasons why people disliked royal government: -thought that king had too much power ex. when king used **sealed letters** and wrote someone's name in there, that person had to stay in prison as long as the king wanted -people disliked that even king's ministers could use them -Paris lawyers and people in a little town called Bar complained about the letter too
 * Sealed letters**: a royal warrant ordering the imprisonment or exile of the person who's name was in the letter.

-some were exiled in distant parts of France and some were put into royal prisons.(ex. Bastille in Paris)
 * During Louis XVI's time about 14,000 sealed letters were used to people who disagree with the government

The royal debt
-In 1786, because governments used more and more money each year than they received in taxes, government was close to financial collapse. (This shows how much money government used)

Ways to solve problem: 1. increase taxes 2. reduce government's spending 3. borrow more money

An attempt at reform
**Calonne**: finance minister -government choose to solve problem by increase taxes. -biggest change->there was a tax that all landowners had to pay -Calonne invited 150 leading nobles to discuss about this new taxes -but they (Assembly of notables) disagree with new taxes, then Louis exiled the entire Parlement from Paris.
 * Paris law court = Parlement**

**Questions **:
-Did Marie Antoinette knew that people hated her? -Why did king Louis married with Marie Antoinette? -Did nobles also liked sealed letters?

**Summary ** :
At first, Marie Antoinette and king Louis was popular in public. However when Marie Antoinette start to waste taxes on cloth and jewellery, people start to dislike her. Marie Antoinette wasted most of money on the "Petit Trianon" which was a palace given by king Louis (for create pond and fake villages). Just like how Marie Antoinette wasted money on cloth and build fake villages, government wasted so much money for their benefit and they start to use more money than they received in taxes, so government become close to financial collapse. Even though there were other ways to solve this problem, for government, raising taxes was the most easy way to solve problem, so Calonne, finance minister, made new tax. New tax was a tax that all landowners had to pay. Then, king invited 150 leading nobles to discuss about this. However, they all disagree with new tax so king Louis exiled the entire Parlement from Paris. This caused violent protests in France. As result of this, in August 1788 king Louis had to order election for an Estate General.

=**Fun!** = Movie "Marie Antoinette"

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**//More pictures of "Petit Trianon" //**