Marie Antoinette : the journey /
Antonia Fraser.
- xxii, 512 pages : illustrations (some colour), map ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-490) and index.
Madame Antoine -- The Dauphine -- Queen consort -- Queen and mother -- The Austrian woman -- Widow Capet. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4. pt. 5. pt. 6.
"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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Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793