Title: Flaunting, Extravagant Queen (French Revolution)
First published: November 3, 1972
Description: At the age of fifteen, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles. Frivolous and reckless, she flouts the strict and demanding etiquette of the glittering court, and discovers the true nature of love, hate and jealousy. But the clouds of revolution are overhead, and Marie Antoinette, who only wishes to enjoy life, learns too late that the price of her enjoyment is very high...'One of our best historical novelists brings to life wayward, capricious Marie Antoinette' - "News Chronicle". '"Flaunting Extravagant Queen" has the colour, liveliness, and sensitivity with which one has come to associate this author's historical novels' - "Scotsman".
Subjects: France, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Marie Antoinette, in fiction, Fiction, French Revolution, The Reign of Terror, Marie Antoinette, Fiction, historical
People: Marie Antoinette Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France (1755-1793), Marie Antoinette
Time periods: French Revolution
LC classification: PZ3.H5212 Fl, PR6015.I3 Fl