Marie-Thérèse, child of terror
Subtitle: the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter
By: Susan Nagel.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781596910577
Subjects: Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, -- duchesse d', -- 1778-1851; Marie Antoinette, -- Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, -- 1755-1793 -- Family; France -- Kings and rulers -- Children -- Biography; France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793; France -- History -- 1789-1815
Genres: Biography.
Description: The biography of Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution and the woman who helped shape the future of nineteenth-century Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-392) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Sinner; title: Sex and politics; title: Child of France; title: Playmates; title: Once upon a time; title: Storm clouds over the palace; title: The end of the fairy tale; title: A new home; title: A dangerous game; title: The losing side; title: Two orphans; title: Sole survivor; title: Pt. 2. Saint; title: Every inch a princess; title: Vienna; title: The Émigrés; title: The birth of a strategist; title: A bride; title: The new antigone; title: Country life; title: The only man in the family; title: Restoration; title: Birth, death and a new dauphine; title: Mending fences; title: Suspicious confirmed; title: Blackmail; title: Queen of France; title: The matriarch.