Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 038548948X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fraser makes no attempt to hide the queen's shortcomings, in particular her poor political skills, but focuses on her personal warmth and noble bearing during her final ordeal. Far from being the licentious monster later depicted by the radicals who sent her to the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution, young Marie Antoinette was quite prudish, as well as thoroughly humiliated by her husband's widely known failure to have complete intercourse with her for seven long years (the gory details were reported to any number of concerned royal parties, including her mother and brother). In the past, Antonia Fraser's bestselling histories and biographies have focused on people and events i
Brian McIver said A savory tale I couldn't put down. I don't know why it took me so long to pick up this book. Ms. Fraser does an excellent job telling the story of this misrepresented and tragic Queen. She was truly a political pawn throughout her life as most young women of her rank were for hundreds of years. Although I knew her doomed fate, I learned so much more that took place between the storming of the Bastille and march on Versailles to the untimely death of Louis and Marie Antionette. If you enjoy historical accounts of royalty (how they lived, loved, suffered, etc) with political intrigue, then I highly recommend this. Scapegoat of the Revolution Marie Antoinette has fascinated countless generations since she met her untimely death at the guillotine during the height of the French Revolution. Was she a wanton woman concerned only with her own pleasure or was she loving wife and mother, caught up in circumstances beyond her control? The general consensus now seems to be the latter and biographer Antonia Fraser makes a strong case for this perception. While Marie Antoinette had many faults (reckless spending chief amongst these), Fraser points out that Antoinette was only fourteen when she married Louis Auguste, the Daup. Christine Cazeneuve said Easy reading. I love Marie Antoinette and wanted to learn more about her. This book covers it all. Very enjoyable reading.
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. Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. Meanwhile, longing for a family and the birth of an heir who would have cemented the Franco-Austro alliance, the French queen had to endure more than eight years of public humiliation for her barren marriage before the delivery of her first of four children.As these problems unfold, Antonia Fra