Quiz*Easy facts bout France 2

Mona Lisa and her famous smile. What Leonardo forgot were the eye brows. Perhaps, this was the fashion trend during the Renaissance period. We have piercing, tatooing and shaving ... the heads. What were you thinking about?

Statue can be found inside the grounds of the Versailles Palace.

Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Empress of Austria, Maria Theresa, was married to the King of France, Louis XVI. Both were beheaded thru guillotine. This room has a escape route for emergency purposes. Can you see the cabinet on the left side with 4 golden statue decors? That's the escape route. They wanted to escape the angry mob but they were caught, tried and imprisoned. The King was executed first and months later, Marie was beheaded. The proletariat uprising was headed by Marianne shouting aloud Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. The French Republic was born. Marie's relatives in Austria never helped her to escape back to Austria. The Austrian people disliked her maybe because of her ostentatious living and her loyalty to France rather than her birth country and the French people hated her because of the military alliance of France with Austria which caused tremendous loss of money and lives. I am sure, she was just misunderstood.