To many people, she is still ‘la reine méchante’, 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’. Marie Antoinette’s dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. ‘Superbly researched … the definitive work on the ill-fated queen’ CATHOLIC HERALD ‘Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Beautifully paced, impeccably written … Don’t miss it’ INDEPENDENT ‘Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it’s all here … Fascinating’ GUARDIAN
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