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Marie Antoinette was not very popular to the French. Although she was married to king Louis XVI, it was rumored that she had numerous affairs. Not only that, but the French people hated her for her Austrian blood and her formerly frivolous ways. The queen was blamed for the country’s financial problems. It is true that she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; her mother wrote to warn her that “a queen can only degrade herself by this sort of heedless extravagance in difficult times.” Marie Antoinette however, was not quite as foolish and spoiled as the public believed. It