Marie Antoinette

About this book

"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.

Subjects

• biographies
• biography
• france, history, 18th century
• histoire
• history
• kings and rulers
• marie antoinette, queen, consort of louis xvi, king of france, 1755-1793
• queens
• reines