Marie Antoinette the last queen of France
This volume is a biography of the Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France Marie Antoinette (1755-1793). The author captures all the drama and pathos of Marie Antoinette's short life. Born in 1755, this carefree, fun-loving daughter of Austrian empress Maria Theresa inherited neither her...
| Main Author: | Lever, Evelyne. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin ,
2001, c2000.
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| Edition: | 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Daughter of Maria Theresa
- Great expectations
- A royal marriage
- The Versailles court
- Madame la Dauphine
- End of a reign, end of an era
- A happy accession
- "Little twenty-year-old queen"
- The coronation
- The queen's circle
- Venus and Vulcan
- The queen's intrigues
- The brother's visit
- Motherhood
- Fersen
- Queen of Trianon
- Birth of a Dauphin
- Fersen's return
- Last illusions
- Scandal in the air
- The diamond necklace affair
- "Madame deficit"
- "My fate is to bring bad luck"
- "Do you know a woman more to be pitied than me?"
- The fall of the Bastille
- The last summer at Versailles
- The tragedy of October 1789
- The Tuileries
- Escape plans
- The Varennes drama
- The impasse
- The last show of strength
- The fall of the monarchy
- The death of the king
- The conciergerie
- Trial and death of the queen
- Epilogue: what became of them?