by Sena Jeter Naslund
With this book I got into the head of Marie Antoinette. The author did all the research and based on the known facts delivered what she thought was going on in Marie Antoinette's head. She convinced me. At the end of the book is a list of source material, "A Brief Timeline of Events" and an interest...
**3.5 stars** I think that the reader's voice in my audiobook version was partly to blame for me not liking it more. The story follows Marie from her wedding through her execution and yes she was completely unsympathetic at times. Part of it I imagine had to do with the royal hierarchy she was accus...
At first, I struggled to like this book. There was a lot of ruminating on fatness vs. thinness that felt very much like the author's own opinions being expressed through the narrative, and that was a turn off. I'm glad I didn't stop reading it, though, as the author does an amazing job of transpor...
Reading this was a lot like watching the Marie Antoinette movie with Kirstin Dunst. No surprises, not exactly a lot of character development...I mean, I know it's a historical novel based on a real person's life (about who there's a considerable amount of information), so I suppose there really isn...
At the age of fourteen, Princess Maria Antonia of Austria was sent to France to be married to the fifteen-year-old Dauphin (crown prince) Louis Auguste, thus forging an alliance between their countries and re-christening her as the French Dauphine, Marie Antoinette. Such alliances are cemented by pr...
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