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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
 

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

by Antonia Fraser

In the past, Antonia Fraser's bestselling histories and biographies have focused on people and events in her native England, from Mary Queen of Scots to Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. Now she crosses the Channel to limn the life of France's unhappiest queen, bringing along her gift for fluent storytelling, vivid characterization, and evocative historical background. Marie... (read more)

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Eli
  • Rated 5 stars

“The tragedy and tyranny of Marie Antoinette and Louis are well-trod ground but other books tend to either demonize or idolize, never leaving quite enough room for the reader to understand the person of Marie Antoinette. Fraser does neither, though, doling out facts in a lush, substantive way. One gets the feeling that she was neither the tragic martyr or the hateful symbol of the old world order. She merely was.”

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  • Nancy

    nancy said:

    “If you read and speak french then you wont have a problem with this book. It's as though the author didn't know enough English to write a book entirely in it so with whatever word she didn't know she interjected french. Took me about nine months and a few different dicitonaries to finish it and only gleened few info about the woman.”

    posted Friday, March 21 2008
  • sonia s

    sonia s said:

    “de beste boek ooit”

    posted Monday, November 5 2007
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