# She becomes queen consort on 10 May 1774 at Louis XVI’s accession as a completed dynastic transfer

Date: 1774

## The fact

Versailles and Britannica print 10 May 1774 as Louis XV’s death and Louis XVI’s accession, making the dauphine queen consort. She did not become a reigning monarch. Household and ministers shared the new reign.

It is one event.

## Context

Petit Trianon’s grant in the same year is a neighbouring household instrument.

[Marie-Antoinette](/people/marie-antoinette)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Lived 1755–1793; queen consort from 1774. Household officers, Austrian diplomats, the king, and later Revolutionary clerks share the file. Cake is a later slogan, not a sourced utterance. The Diamond Necklace is allegation and image. Fiscal crisis is not stored as her unique coefficient. Complex contribution is required.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Versailles and Britannica independently describe the 1774 accession.

Official or archival record: Château de Versailles — Marie-Antoinette (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/marie-antoinette; Établissement public du château, du musée et du domaine national de Versailles).

## Significance

A completed consort transfer is a dynastic-continuity path. It is not a modern election and not a unique fiscal cause.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 10 May 1774 queenship in the received file. Not established: that queenship authored the later deficit.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Marie-Antoinette.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `democratic-resilience` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Marie-Antoinette did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not blame the 1774 title for 1788 loans. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Marie-Antoinette.

## People

- Marie-Antoinette: https://factrail.ai/people/marie-antoinette

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Antoinette-queen-of-France
- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/marie-antoinette

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ma-queen-1774