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by: ANTONIA FRASER
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780297819080
Format: Import
ISBN: 0297819089
Label: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Manufacturer: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Sales Rank: 1512051
Studio: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
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Rating:  - A pleasant surprise
This biography was a pleasant surprise! I thought it would be tedious to read and even harder to sift through the writer's biases. However, Antonia Frasier provided a wonderful insight into not only what Marie Antoinette's world was like, but also her strengths and weaknesses as a queen, mother, and woman. Frasier lent an air of sympathy which kept me enraptured until the very end of the book - not an easy task in a biography!
Rating: - History as readable as a novel.
Fraser's biography is now considered one of the more complete contemporary works on Marie Antoinette's life, and beyond that is a fascinating peek into the end of imperial French life.
We all know the story as well as if it were a Greek tragedy; the beautiful young princess who desired too much, the lascivious old king who left "le deluge" to wash over his descendants, and the harrowing end for the last heir to the thrown in a Gothic prison. Fraser, however, brings all these scenes that ... Read More
Rating: - Marie Antoinette the journey
Wonderful book about the Queen of France. From her early days as the Arch Duchess of Austria, to Dauphine of France to finally the Queen of France. It follows her life (journey)to her death. It also gives insight into the last surviving member of King Louis Auguste and Queen Marie Antoinette, Marie Therese.
Rating: - Marie Antoinette in depth
I have read many books on the Dauphine over the years and this is one of the best.
It covers in detail all of the daily life of a queen and the sacrifice she made by becoming a queen.
It seems that the paparazzi today are angels compared to what the people of France and all of Europe did to their monarchs.
The book is well researched, and well done and like all good books on her, this one doesnt speculate but clarifies the life of this often misunderstood young woman.
I recommend ... Read More
Rating:  - Not a very Fluently written book
Hard to get into. The movie is better except the movie leaves out one of the children and I am sure alot more. Maybe onday I will be able to get into it.
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