[LOUIS XVI & MARIE-ANTOINETTE]: (1755-1793) Last Queen of France 1774-92, as spouse of Louis XVI. Yo

[LOUIS XVI & MARIE-ANTOINETTE]: (1755-1793) Last Queen of France 1774-92, as spouse of Louis XVI. Yo
[LOUIS XVI & MARIE-ANTOINETTE]: (1755-1793) Last Queen of France 1774-92, as spouse of Louis XVI. Youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. During the French revolution she was known as ''Madame Deficit'' because of her lavish spending, with increasing population disliking her. Marie Antoinette was sentenced of high treason by the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed by guillotine at the age of 37. An original printed booklet copy of ”Notice Historique sur le Testament de Louis XVI” & “Notice Historique sur le Testament de la Reine Marie-Antoinette d´Autriche”, twenty pages, 4to, 1816, in French. Printed by order of King Louis XVIII on laid paper by the Imprimerie de Gillé, printers, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais. The booklet refers to the wills of the King and Queen, their last sentences before execution and reporting on the trial against them, bearing two attractive vignettes to the first page of each will. To the last two pages, the document includes the facsimiles signatures of Marie Antoinette and of her son Louis Charles, Louis XVII, and the ones of the prosecutor of the revolutionary tribunal, Antoine Quentin Fouquier Tinville and few other members of the tribunal. Small overall age wear and toning, mostly to edges, otherwise G