Marie Antoinette, born Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, and later Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Navarre is perhaps best remembered for her legendary excesses, and for her death by guillotine at the height of the French Revolution. A leading fashion icon and trendsetter of her time, traditional histories have portrayed Marie Antoinette as a shallow, weak, and self-indulgent person. Recent years, however, has somewhat changed that view. In 1933, Stefan Zweig wrote a biography of her, praising her extraordinary courage during the final years of her life. Deborah Cadbury, in her biography of Louis XVII, praised Marie Antoinette's devotion to her family and Munro Price, in his political study on the fall of the French monarchy, described her and Louis XVI's policy between 1789 ...more >>and 1792 as consistent and highly conservative. Indeed, Marie Antoinette was "a woman more sinned against than sinning."