The Queen's annual clothing budget surpassed $3 million, according to journalist Laurence Benaim, author of "Fashion and Versailles ... ended up after the French Revolution.
Marie Antoinette was heavily disliked by many of the French people, who believed that her fondness for expensive fashion was helping ... but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie ...
The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...