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Who is Queen Maria Theresa of Austria from To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette and what is their importance?
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Antoinette's mother, the ruler of the Austrio-Hungarian empire. Maria Theresa was a strict mother who held definite views on morality and the proper role of the nobility in society, which she tried to pass on to her children.