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1.   2.  Marie-Antoinette (1755-93) married Louis XVI at age 14. As queen, she and her entourage quickly gained a reputation for extravagance and immoral behaviour. Faced with revolutionary republicanism, Louis proved weak and after the storming of the Bastille in July 1789, Marie-Antoinette took control to ensure the survival of the French Crown, even resorting to a plea for military assistance from her brother Leopold II of Austria - but to no avail. She was convicted for opposing the Revolution and in October 1793 sent to the guillotine.      9.   3.   4.   5.   6.   7.   8.  1. Lord Nelson mortally wounded at Battle of Trafalgar, engraving by G Allbank 6. Ludwig van Beethoven composing a mass by Joseph Karl Stieler 1820 2. Third Class by Abraham Solomon (1860-1927) 7. Ribbon for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897 3. Abraham Lincoln reading to his son, photograph by Matthew Brady (1823-96) 8. Giuseppe Garibaldi by Silvestro Lega (1826-95) 4. Broadside issued by the War Department on April 20 1865 following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln 9. Execution of Marie-Antoinette, Danish School 18th Century 5. Karl Marx in his studio painted by Zhang Wun c.1875