- Queens, History, Biography, Reines
"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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Antonia Fraser
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Anchor Canada, RH Audio, Orion Pub Co
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780739340066
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“On 2 November 1755 the Queen-Empress was in labour all day with her fifteenth child.”
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter. - Wikipedia
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