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Marie Antoinette : the journey / Antonia Fraser.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : N.A. Talese/Doubleday, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xxii, 512 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 038548948X
  • 9780385489485
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944.035092 21
LOC classification:
  • DC137.1 .F73 2001
Contents:
pt. 1. Madame Antoine -- pt. 2. The Dauphine -- pt. 3. Queen consort -- pt. 4. Queen and mother -- pt. 5. The Austrian woman -- pt. 6. Widow Capet.
Review: "Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. But the story of her journey, begun as a fourteen-year-old sent from Vienna to marry the future Louis XVI, to her courageous defense before she was sent to the guillotine, reveals a woman of greater complexity and character than we have previously understood. We stand beside Marie Antoinette and witness the drama of her life as she becomes a scapegoat of the Ancien Regime, when her faults were minor in comparison to the punishments inflicted on her."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 944.035092 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A415061B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-490) and index.

pt. 1. Madame Antoine -- pt. 2. The Dauphine -- pt. 3. Queen consort -- pt. 4. Queen and mother -- pt. 5. The Austrian woman -- pt. 6. Widow Capet.

"Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. But the story of her journey, begun as a fourteen-year-old sent from Vienna to marry the future Louis XVI, to her courageous defense before she was sent to the guillotine, reveals a woman of greater complexity and character than we have previously understood. We stand beside Marie Antoinette and witness the drama of her life as she becomes a scapegoat of the Ancien Regime, when her faults were minor in comparison to the punishments inflicted on her."--BOOK JACKET.

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