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What is Marie Antoinette about?

"...[A] behind-the-scenes peek at Versailles...and an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship...[A] graceful guide..." –__The New York Times__This fascinating and poignant collection of letters between Marie Antoinette, the doomed dauphine and future queen of France, and her mother, Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia, provide a revealing portrait of the legendary queen's tragic life and the age in which she lived. Beginning in 1770 when the young princess departed for France and ending with Maria Theresa's death in 1780, these intimate letters reveal the hostility the young dauphine encountered at Versailles, her flouting of court etiquette, and her interference in court politics. Maria Theresa offers her daughter constant advice on everything from matters of state to sex. These remarkable letters are superbly translated by Olivier Bernier, an acclaimed expert on eighteenth-century France, who also provides extensive commentary."[Marie Antoinette] remains an unforgettable royalist heroine...she never fails to move us. [Olivier Bernier's] vision of complicated events is always clear and understandable; his theories of history rethought..

Who reads Marie Antoinette?

Author

Olivier Bernier, New Word City Editors

Publisher

New Word City : New Word City, Inc

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781640191389

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (126 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14