num_pages: 445
description: Confessions of Marie Antoinette the riveting and sweeping final novel in Juliet Greys trilogy on the life of the legendary French queen blends rich historical detail with searing drama bringing to life the early years of the French Revolution and the doomed royal familys final days.Versailles 1789. As the burgeoning rebellion reaches the palace gates Marie Antoinette finds her privileged and peaceful life swiftly upended by violence. Once her loyal subjects the people of France now seek to overthrow the crown placing the heirs of the Bourbon dynasty in mortal peril.Displaced to the Tuileries Palace in Paris the royal family is propelled into the heart of the Revolution. There despite a few staunch allies they are surrounded by cunning spies and vicious enemies. Yet despite the political and personal threats against her Marie Antoinette remains above all a devoted wife and mother standing steadfastly by her husband Louis XVI and protecting their young son and daughter. And though the queen and her family try to flee and she secretly attempts to arrange their rescue from the clutches of the Revolution they cannot outrun the dangers encircling them or escape their shocking fate.
language: English
title: Confessions of Marie Antoinette
publisher: Ballantine Books