Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which enhanced French cultural life, her imprisonment, the death threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793. Marie Antoinette’s enemies threw women at him, but he ignored them. Antonia Fraser’s best-selling biography Marie Antoinette: The Journey, which offered a more humane vision of the queen, was the basis for her rebirth as a modern-day princess in Sofia. Dont miss it INDEPENDENTFraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate SUNDAY TIMES.
Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny. Marie Antoinette, Paperback / softback Book. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Antonia Fraser is the author of many internationally bestselling historical works, including Love and Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, which was made into a. the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLIC HERALDMarie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. ĭon't miss it' INDEPENDENT'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched. įascinating' GUARDIAN'Beautifully paced, impeccably written.
'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here.
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