Marie Antoinette
Antonia Fraser · 2001
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"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.
First sentence: On 2 November 1755 the Queen-Empress was in labour all day with her fifteenth child.
Book details
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Anchor Canada
- Editions
- 10
- Pages
- 512
- ISBN
- 9780385662871
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