As the attacks upon the queen grew ever more vicious, the popularity of the monarchy plummeted.
The worsening political situation however had little effect on Marie-Thérèse, as more immediate tragedies struck when her younger sister, Sophie, died in 1787,[REF] followed two years later by the Dauphin, Louis-Joseph, who died of tuberculosis, on 4 June 1789,[REF] one month after the opening of the Estates-General.