During her trial, her composure under intense questioning and horrible accusations remained steadfast. She also showed tremendous courage and unwavering dedication to her husband, refusing ever to leave his side as revolution broiled around them. Accused of being not too bright, a lesbian, an adulterer, and burdened with the nickname ‘Madame Deficit’ for her lavish spending, Marie Antoinette weathered her bad press in style. A young ‘celebrity’ who for awhile gets caught up in the spoils of her fame, the Queen seemed doomed from the start.
From the descriptions of the clothes to the intimate letters she wrote and the abuses hurled at her, Marie Antoinette’s life feels timely and timeless in Antonia Fraser’s pages.
A well written, detailed account of the Queen of France, you can’t help but feel enmeshed in the daily life of Versailles during her reign. Sent from her home in Austria at the age of 14 to be wed to the future King Louis XVI, her tumultuous life at Versailles is vivid in Antonia Fraser’s book.Įverything. I recently finished this biography of the ill-fated Queen of France, famous for words she never uttered.
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