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  Marie Antoinette (Paperback) By (author) Antonia Fraser

  

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  Short Description for Marie AntoinetteThe major movie about the legendary French queen, directed by Sofia Coppola, is based on this book by bestselling historian Antonia Fraser
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 30 May 2002
  • Format: Paperback 640 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Royalty | European History | Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
  • ISBN 13: 9780753813058 ISBN 10: 075381305X
  • Sales rank: 32,387

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• Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny. Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which enhanced French cultural life, her imprisonment, the death threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.