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Marie Antoinette (/ ˌ æ n t w ə ˈ n ɛ t, ˌ ɒ̃ t-/; [1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution and the establishment of the French First Republic. She was the wife of Louis XVI.
Marie Antoinette, whose birthname was Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, (1755–1793), last Queen of France before the French Revolution; Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (1884–1944), second daughter of Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and Princess Marie of Windisch-Graetz.
Maria, Marie, Miriam and other variants, such as Molly Mary / ˈ m ɛəˌr i / is a feminine given name , the English form of the name Maria , which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek name Μαρία , María or Μαριάμ , Mariam , found in the Septuagint and New Testament .
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Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), French Resistance member and jurist; Antoinette Fouque (1936–2014), French psychoanalyst; Antoinette Frank (born 1971), American convicted murderer; Antoinette Konikow (1869–1946), American physician, feminist, and radical political activist; Antoinette Nording (1814–1887), Swedish perfume entrepreneur
Marie is a variation of the feminine given name Maria. It is also the standard form of the name in Czech , and is also used, either as a variant of Mary or Maria or a borrowing from French, in Danish , English , German , Norwegian , and Swedish .
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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).