Marie Antoinette : the journey / Antonia Fraser.

By:

Fraser, Antonia, 1932- [author.]

Material type: Text

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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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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