Best Marie Antoinette Biography - April 2024

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

The national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII.  France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially lighthearted, privileged, but otherwise unremarkable child was thrust into an unparalleled time and place, and was commanded by circumstance to play a significant role in histo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385489498
• ASIN: 0385489498
• ISBN: 0385489498
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong

Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, He... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000URWYUW
• ASIN: B000URWYUW
• Manufacturer: Crown Archetype

A Day with Marie Antoinette

Featuring personal correspondence, lavish illustrations, and a wealth of unpublished material, this handsome slipcased volume reveals an intimate portrait of Marie Antoinette, her personal collections, and Versailles. Marie Antoinette was a mirror of her time. Never has a queen been so passionately admired and adulated, then hunted, vilified, and defamed. Spanning her tragically brief yet passionate life—from the young queen playing a shepherdess on stage, unaware of the turmoil in the capital, to France’s guillotined “martyr queen"—the author demystifies the legend, unveiling the w... [Read More]

• ASIN: 2080202103
• ASIN: 2080202103
• ISBN: 2080202103
• Brand: Flammarion-Pere Castor
• Manufacturer: Flammarion

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen Of France

• ASIN: 0374199388
• ASIN: 0374199388
• ISBN: 0374199388
• Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Who Was Marie Antoinette?

From the palaces of Austria to the mirrored halls of Versailles, Marie Antoinette led a charmed life. She was born into royalty in 1755 and married the future king of France at age 15. By 21 she ascended to the throne and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of masquerade balls, sky-high wigs, and extravagant food. But her taste for excess ruffled many feathers. The poor people of France blamed Marie Antoinette for their poverty. Her spending helped incite the French Revolution. And after much public outcry, in 1793 she quite literally lost her head because of it. Whether she was blameless or guilty is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0448483106
• ASIN: 0448483106
• ISBN: 0448483106
• Brand: MELIA PUBLISHING SERVICES
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe

The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion.   Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen’s household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, she gained a unique perspective of the lavishness and daily intrigue at Versailles.   Born into the famous House of Savoy in Turin, Italy, Marie Thérèse was married at the age of seventeen to the Prince de Lamballe, heir to one of the r... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NCE73K3
• ASIN: B01NCE73K3
• Manufacturer: Pen & Sword History

Marie Antoinette

This 476-page hardcover was published by Garden City Publishing Co. in 1933.

• ASIN: B005KDJ4TA
• ASIN: B005KDJ4TA
• Manufacturer: Garden City Publishing, Co.

Marie Antoinette

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes her resolve during the failed escape to varennes, her i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1906548307
• ASIN: 1906548307
• ISBN: 1906548307
• Brand: PUSHKIN PRESS
• Manufacturer: Pushkin Press

The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Royalty, revolution, and scientific mystery---the dramatic true account of the fate of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and an extraordinary detective story that spans more than two hundred years.Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything. Drawn into the horror of the French Revolution, his family was incarcerated and their fate thrust into the hands of the revolutionaries who wished to destroy t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000FA5TWE
• ASIN: B000FA5TWE
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the YearWhen her carriage first crossed over from her native Austria into France, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette was taken out, stripped naked before an entourage, and dressed in French attire to please the court of her new king. For a short while, the young girl played the part.But by the time she took the throne, everything had changed. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber tells of the radical restyling that transformed the young queen into an icon and shaped the future of the nation. With her riding gear, her white furs, her pouf hairstyles, and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312427344
• ASIN: 0312427344
• ISBN: 0312427344
• Brand: Weber, Caroline
• Manufacturer: Picador

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order)

Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism for the modern ar... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N6CJWVB
• ASIN: B01N6CJWVB
• Manufacturer: Chronicle Books LLC

Marie-Therese

This volume recounts the life and times of Marie-Thaeraese Charlotte de France (1778-1851), the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. After the execution of the King and Queen in 1793, their young daughter remained imprisoned. Released on her seventeenth birthday, she faced an uncertain future. Rumor spread that the traumatized princess had switched places with an illegitimate half sister, to live out her days as the mysterious "Dark Countess." Now, two hundred years later, this volume contends that it has solved this mystery, creating a biography of a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0747596662
• ASIN: 0747596662
• ISBN: 0747596662
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette

This book turns aside from the official portraits and the great historical events to rediscover the private places and objects that reflect Marie Antoinette's personality and reveal her more directly to our modern gaze. In retreat from the stifling protocol of the French court and in pursuit of her own tastes (influenced by her free and happy childhood in the Austrian court), Marie Antoinette created her own personal domain - and cultivated a new royal 'style'. At Rambouillet, Versailles and Fontainebleau, her apartments, her pavilions, cottages and dairies set in 'rustic' landscapes, were exq... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0500016909
• ASIN: 0500016909
• ISBN: 0500016909
• Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson

Marie Antoinette's Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution

Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for the daring in style and fashion that she brought to 18th century France. For the better part of the queen’s reign, one man was entrusted with the sole responsibility of ensuring that her coiffure was at its most ostentatious best. Who was this minister of fashion who wielded such tremendous influence over the queen’s affairs? Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship, Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, The Queen, and the Revolution charts the rise of Leonard Autie from h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0762791535
• UPC: 660813791535
• ASIN: 0762791535
• ISBN: 0762791535
• Manufacturer: Lyons Press

Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women―Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution.Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an era, the tumultuous last days of the crumbling ancien régime. Nagel brings the formidable Marie-Thérèse to life, along with the age of revolution and the waning days of the aristocracy, in a page-turning biography that will appeal to fans of Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette and Amanda Foreman's G... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1596910577
• ASIN: 1596910577
• ISBN: 1596910577
• Brand: Brand: Bloomsbury USA
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

Marie Antoinette : The Journey

Describes the life of Marie Antionette from her betrothal as a fourteen-year-old girl to the future King Louis XVI, through her life in the French court, to her courage in the face of revolutionaries who

• UPC: 1876391

Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow : A Novel of Marie Antoinette

A captivating Parisian novel of rich spectacle and royal scandal that spans 15 years in the fateful reign of Marie Antoinette, France's most legendary and notorious

• UPC: 19484917

Becoming Marie Antoinette : A Novel

Includes a reader's guide and an excerpt from Days of splendor, days of sorrow: a novel of Marie

• UPC: 15565983

Confessions of Marie Antoinette : A Novel

A fictionalized account of the final days of Marie Antoinette bring to life not only a country in turmoil, but the deeply human story of a wife and mother who became one of the most

• UPC: 23079787

Queen of Fashion : What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinettes bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of

• UPC: 5961814
• Rating: 5.0

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer

Colette Iselin is thrilled be in Paris, France, on her spring break class trip. But a series of gruesome murders is taking place around the city, putting everyone on edge. And as she tours the

• UPC: 23565160

The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette

While seeking the perfect dress for her friend's birthday party, twelve-year-old Louise Lambert dons a vintage gown and finds herself with a young Marie Antoinette in eighteenth-century France where, between cute commoner boys and glamorous

• UPC: 23368906

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer - eBook

Heads will roll! Paris, France: a city of fashion, chocolate croissants, and cute boys. Colette Iselin is thrilled be there for the first time, on her spring break class trip. But a series of gruesome

• UPC: 577102364
• Rating: 3.0

The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 - eBook

Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's MARIE ANTOINETTE is back in print with a gorgeous new package! To forge an incredibly powerful political alliance, thirteen-year-old Marie Antoinette of Austria is betrothed to Dauphin Louis Auguste, who

• UPC: 362420802
• Rating: 3.625

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette : A Novel

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life—from her privileged childhood

• UPC: 25953216
• Rating: 2.833