Marie Antoinette
Subtitle: the journey
By: Antonia Fraser.
Publisher: N.A. Talese/Doubleday
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: Marie Antoinette, -- Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, -- 1755-1793; Queens -- France -- Biography; France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen whose excesses have become legend, Marie Antoinette was blamed for instigating the French Revolution. But the story of her journey, begun as a fourteen-year-old sent from Vienna to marry the future Louis XVI, to her courageous defense before she was sent to the guillotine, reveals a woman of greater complexity and character than we have previously understood.

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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 479-490) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Madame Antoine -- -- pt. 2.; title: The Dauphine -- -- pt. 3.; title: Queen consort -- -- pt. 4.; title: Queen and mother -- -- pt. 5.; title: The Austrian woman -- -- pt. 6.; title: Widow Capet.