the costs of the government out of their own pockets with higher taxes. Marie Antoinette earned her famous nickname of "Madame Déficit" in the summer of 1787 as a result of the public perception that she had single-handedly ruined the finances of the nation.
The death of Marie Antoinette's son, the Dauphine, would normally have been nationally mourned but was virtually ignored by the French people who were instead preparing for the next meeting of the Estates General and a hopeful resolution to the bread crisis. The situation began to escalate violently in July as the National Assembly began to demand more rights, and Louis XVI began to push back with efforts to suppress the Third Estate. Paris was eventually besieged by riots at the news, which culminated in the famous Storming of the Bastille on July 14. In October, a dinner conducted
