Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Fraser, Antonia
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0297819089
- ISBN 13
- 9780297819080
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. Cloth, xviii, 488 pages, [48] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Still a controversial figure - as well as a celebrated one - 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'. She was accused of personal profligacies and sexual excesses. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny. Marie Antoinette remains one of the genuinely romantic and ill-treated characters in history. A compassionate queen and devoted mother, she did little to deserve her tragic destiny. She was born in 1755, one of 16 children of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. At the age of 15 she was to be the bride of the French Dauphin, heir to his grandfather Louis XV. The Dauphin came to the throne as Louis XVI in 1774 and for more than ten years the French court at Versailles glittered under the presidency of its young, beautiful and artistic queen, in what would be seen afterwards as the last throw of the Ancien Regime. In this stunning biography Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, 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, and her trial (during which her 7-year-old son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and eventual execution by guillotine in 1793. / Antonia Fraser is the best-selling author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots and Cromwell: Our Chief of Men. She has written two highly praised books focusing on women in history: The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England and The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot. Antonia Fraser [was] married to the playwright Harold Pinter." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
Antonia Fraser is the author of Mary Queen of Scots , The Wives of Henry VIII , and Faith and Treason , among other international bestsellers. She is the recipient of many literary awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial prize. Antonia Fraser and her husband, Harold Pinter, live in London.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Marie Antoinette: The Journey
- Author
- Fraser, Antonia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0297819089
- ISBN 13
- 9780297819080
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / French; European / 5. Baroque & Rococo; Patronage / Royal;
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