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Marie Antoinette by Antonia, Fraser is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Marie Antoinette about?
In the past, Antonia Fraser's bestselling histories and biographies have focused on people and events in her native England, from Mary Queen of Scots to Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot . Now she crosses the Channel to limn the life of France's unhappiest queen, bringing along her gift for fluent storytelling, vivid characterization, and evocative historical background. Marie Antoinette (1755-93) emerges in Fraser's sympathetic portrait as a goodhearted girl woefully undereducated and poorly prepared for the dynastic political intrigues into which she was thrust at age 14, when her mother, Empress Maria Theresa, married her off to the future Louis XVI to further Austria's interests in France. Far from being the licentious monster later depicted by the radicals who sent her to the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution, young Marie Antoinette was quite prudish, as well as thoroughly humiliated by her husband's widely known failure to have complete intercourse with her for seven long years (the gory details were reported to any number of concerned royal parties, including her mother and brother). She compensated by spending lavishly on
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Antonia, Fraser
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (126 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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