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Marie-Antoinette - The Making of a French Queen (Hardcover)
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A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this
famously "out of touch" queen "Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much
more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye of her beholder . .
. neither martyr nor voluptuary but rather a serious participant in
politics."-Lynn Hunt, New York Review of Books "Splendid. . . .
Masterly. . . . A wonderfully gripping biography."-Allan Massie,
Wall Street Journal Named a Book of the Year (2020) by The
Spectator Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and
reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a
lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed
her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and
sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story. Hardman shows how
Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the
crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how,
from the outset, Marie-Antoinette refused to prioritize the
aggressive foreign policy of her mother, Maria-Theresa, bravely
took over the helm from Louis XVI after the collapse of his morale,
and, when revolution broke out, listened to the Third Estate and
worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional
monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman
demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when
and how she exerted it.
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