Why was Marie Antoinette unavoidable by the Jacobins

The Queen, though a French by her marriage to Louis XVI, was of Austrian origin, a member of one of the most powerful royal houses of Europe, the Habsburgs.

In the beginning, people liked her, but her extravagant and lavish lifestyle won her the antipathy of the masses in times of great economic hardship and social dispair. The people of Paris came to hate her. Queen Marie Antoinette became the symbol of arrogance, decadence and lack of concern for the plight of the common man often associated with the monarchy, the ancien regime that the revolution tried to smash and replace.