A solid biography though not always riveting. Not overly dry though. Helped me see more than just the cartoonish figure history has made Antoinette. It's also a bit special for me because it was the book I was reading the night I met my husband ;-)
I found this book to be an easy to read, practically unbiased look at the life of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria. I like the fact that Ms. Haslip doesn't designate anyone to be 'the hero' or 'the villian', which sadly seems to be the case with a number of other biographies about the Empress. She...
I became intrigued by the persona of Madame du Barry after watching the movie Marie Antoinette (the one with Kirsten Dunst), where she was portrayed as crass, uncultured and completely unlikeable. Joan Haslip has done an excellent job of dispelling that mischaracterization for me. The book is a quic...
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