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This is a nice, thick non-fiction about the life of the French queen, from birth through to her execution. It's my first bio of Antoinette so even though Fraser writes from an almost completely sympathetic angle, and that isn't to say a skewed angle, I learned so much. I didn't even know that the woman wasn't French but Austrian!
After reading hundreds of pages, seeing her go from a rather neglected Austrian princess to a neglected French princess, living through the early years of her marriage t ...more
After reading hundreds of pages, seeing her go from a rather neglected Austrian princess to a neglected French princess, living through the early years of her marriage t ...more
Interesting biography, but excessively sympathetic. A careful chronicle of Marie Antoinette's good personal qualities and random good deeds does not mask the fact that she chose a life of monumental selfishness and stupidity at a time when the French people had lost patience with such behavior. Neither she nor her husband were fit to rule anybody. They couldn't even take care of themselves.
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