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Question: Is it true that Marie Antoinette could not speak up for what she believed in!.!.!.!?
because she was a woman!?
Like for her husband, because he was known to be weak, timid and quiet!.
So was she allowed to speak about how she felt at all!?

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Unfortunately, there would not have been anything Marie Antoinette could have said that would have made any difference!.

Marie Antoinette was very unpopular with the French people, so they would not have been likely to have been swayed by anything she said at her husband's trial anyway!. She was not asked to speak at his trial, and it woul dno thave done any good anyway!.

However, if she had been allowed to speak, she might have pointed out that Louis had been a conscientious king and had always meant well!. He had given generously to the poor intimes of hardship,l and had tried to get the tax system made fairer, by making the rich pay more (he was defeated by the selfishness of the nobility, who refused to agree to the changes)!.

At her own trial, Marie Antoinette actually spoke quite eloquently when she was questioned (for fifteen hours at a time)!. She was particularly eloquent when answering the disgusting charge that she had sexually abused her young son, and in fact managed to get the sympathy of the women in the gallery, who until then had been implacably hostile towards her!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

He wasn't "guilty" of anything other than being King!.

There was nothing she could have said, they didn't care about the truth!.

The Revolutionists were drunken murderers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com