The Emperor tells of the young Mozart proposing marriage to his sister, Antoinette. This was Marie Antoinette, then Queen of France. Later - when talking about how "The Marriage of Figaro" may incense the people - the Emperor mentions that she has written to him, feeling "afraid of her own people". As "Figaro" was written in 1782-83, this foreshadows Marie Antoinette's eventual fate: fettered into constitutional monarchy during the French Revolution in 1789, and eventually deposed, trialed and executed in 1793.

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