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Carolly Erickson The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette: A Novel
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Marie Antoinette
Biography of the extravagant and frivolous queen Marie-Antoinette, examining her influence over King Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her imprisonment, death threats, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial, and eventual execution by guillotine in 1793. author: Fraser, Antonia; publisher: Weidenfeld & N.
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Marie Antoinette
Biography of the extravagant and frivolous queen Marie-Antoinette, examining her influence over King Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her imprisonment, death threats, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial, and eventual execution by guillotine in 1793. author: Fraser, Antonia; publisher: Weidenfeld & N.
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Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd Spilling the Beans on Marie Antoinette
Pages: 96, Paperback, Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson Marie Antoinette
<I>Marie Antoinette</I>, Antonia Fraser's first book in five years, heralds the welcome return of her wonderfully lucid, engaging style as she disentangles myth from fact regarding the life of the still controversial, and misunderstood, wife of Louis XVI of France. It is also perhaps her most assured work to date. The daughter of Empress Maria Teresa of Austria, the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette, or <I>l'Autrichienne</I& gt;, was sent to France to marry the Dauphin in 1770 in an act of political union between the two countries. Despite her husband's preference for the hunting field over the bedroom, and a somewhat inexpressive personality--his final terse diary entry was to be, appropriately, Rien--a decade of French courtly exuberance entailed. Her disappointment in marriage gave way to an enjoyment of her position, especially on turning 30, yet an increasing number of <I>libelles</I> and scandalous rumours about the new Queen and her sexual proclivities grew from Versailles' whispers to the shouts of what was to be the revolution of 1789. This was followed by her own awful demise and beheading four wretched years later, after the appalling torture of her own young son falsely testifying that he had been sexually abused by her. <p> Those are the skeletal facts of her life, but Fraser fleshes out the story with her customary composed authority. Her stated ambition is twofold. The book's subtitle, The Journey, refers to Marie Antoinette's political significance in a union over which she had no control, but also her own personal story, from the ill-educated, overwhelmed teenage bride to the despised monarch who bore the brunt of all the ills of the <I>ancien régime</I>. Fraser, arch debunker, necessarily removes the apocryphal--Mozart the child prodigy saying that he would marry her, the infamous let them eat cake comment that preceded her by several hundred years, dressing as a milkmaid at her model village in the grounds of Versailles--to reveal a woman whose misfortunes, she concludes, outweighed her failures. Like the Jemima Shore detective novels she also pens, Fraser displays an unerring ability to ask the right questions. Most of all, though, she writes with an understated, unadorned clarity that imparts her learning with an ease to be both envied and savoured. In 1789, Marie Antoinette famously said to a deputation from the Commune of Paris, I've seen everything, known everything, and forgotten everything. There could be no wiser, compassionate and judicious reclaimer of her besmirched reputation than Antonia Fraser.--<I>David Vincent</I>
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Portrait Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
Pages: 416, Paperback, Portrait
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Piatkus Books Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
Pages: 363, Hardcover, Piatkus Books
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Usborne Publishing Ltd Marie Antoinette (Famous Lives)
Pages: 64, Hardcover, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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Marie Antoinette
This title is a biography of a legendary French queen by historian Antonia Fraser. author: Fraser, Antonia; publisher: Orion
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Marie Antoinette
This title presents a new life of this legendary French queen by historian Antonia Fraser. author: Fraser, Antonia; publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group)
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Marie Antoinette
author: Daynes, Katie; publisher: Usborne Pub.
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Marie Antoinette
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Dover Publications Inc. Marie Antoinette Paper Dolls
Pages: 32, Paperback, Dover Publications Inc.
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Routledge, Inc Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen
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Random House USA Inc The Knight of Maison-Rouge: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Pages: 423, Hardcover, Random House USA Inc
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Phoenix Press Marie Antoinette
<I>Marie Antoinette</I>, Antonia Fraser's first book in five years, heralds the welcome return of her wonderfully lucid, engaging style as she disentangles myth from fact regarding the life of the still controversial, and misunderstood, wife of Louis XVI of France. It is also perhaps her most assured work to date. The daughter of Empress Maria Teresa of Austria, the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette, or <I>l'Autrichienne</I& gt;, was sent to France to marry the Dauphin in 1770 in an act of political union between the two countries. Despite her husband's preference for the hunting field over the bedroom, and a somewhat inexpressive personality--his final terse diary entry was to be, appropriately, Rien--a decade of French courtly exuberance entailed. Her disappointment in marriage gave way to an enjoyment of her position, especially on turning 30, yet an increasing number of <I>libelles</I> and scandalous rumours about the new Queen and her sexual proclivities grew from Versailles' whispers to the shouts of what was to be the revolution of 1789. This was followed by her own awful demise and beheading four wretched years later, after the appalling torture of her own young son falsely testifying that he had been sexually abused by her. <p> Those are the skeletal facts of her life, but Fraser fleshes out the story with her customary composed authority. Her stated ambition is twofold. The book's subtitle, The Journey, refers to Marie Antoinette's political significance in a union over which she had no control, but also her own personal story, from the ill-educated, overwhelmed teenage bride to the despised monarch who bore the brunt of all the ills of the <I>ancien régime</I>. Fraser, arch debunker, necessarily removes the apocryphal--Mozart the child prodigy saying that he would marry her, the infamous let them eat cake comment that preceded her by several hundred years, dressing as a milkmaid at her model village in the grounds of Versailles--to reveal a woman whose misfortunes, she concludes, outweighed her failures. Like the Jemima Shore detective novels she also pens, Fraser displays an unerring ability to ask the right questions. Most of all, though, she writes with an understated, unadorned clarity that imparts her learning with an ease to be both envied and savoured. In 1789, Marie Antoinette famously said to a deputation from the Commune of Paris, I've seen everything, known everything, and forgotten everything. There could be no wiser, compassionate and judicious reclaimer of her besmirched reputation than Antonia Fraser.--<I>David Vincent</I>
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Grove Press Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Grove Great Lives)
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Vivisphere Publishing Circle of Tears: The Spiritual Phenomenon of Elian Gonzalez
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Weidenfeld & Nicholson history The Queen's Necklace: Marie Antoinette and the Scandal That Shocked and Mystified France
Pages: 638, Paperback, Weidenfeld & Nicholson history
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Caprice Bortz Marie Antoinette Katarina Nilsson Olle Persson
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