0 St. 6 Min, 16 Okt 1793 Jahr - Antoinette was beheaded on October 16, 1793 ( just 9 months after her husband ) During an economic turmoil in France, she lived extravagantly and encouraged her husband to not reform the monarchy When she was told that the French peasantry had no bread to eat, she allegedly responded with , “Let them eat cake” (Band der Zeit)