Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Anchor (November 2002)
544 pages, eBook (purchased myself for $13.99)
Book Rating: 5 Stars
Beginning with Marie Antoinette's birth and following along her journey of life to her death, at age 37, this account is both thorough and fascinating. For those aspects of her life that cannot be absolutely substantiated by the historical record, an attempt to conjecture viable answers is attempted, but never deemed to be fact, which I appreciated. It's a shame that a long campaign of vicious propaganda, led a people to largely support the violent end to their monarchy, when it might have been otherwise. The sordid, misguided handling of the royal family by the revolutionaries and the ultimate outcome thereof, is best summed up, as was the book, with the Queen's own words: "Oh my God, if we have committed faults, we have certainly expiated them." Excellent Read!
Movie Adaptations/Modern Retellings/Related Works:
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Movie Rating: PG-13
My Rating: 5 Stars
Adaption: Verbatim-Tweaked-Veiled
Eye Candy: Plain-Pretty-Sultry
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