Marriage of Louis-Auguste and Marie Antoinette
1770 · Event
The fourteen-year-old Austrian archduchess marries the French dauphin at Versailles to seal the alliance between Habsburgs and Bourbons; the marriage goes unconsummated for seven years.
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