| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, genealogical table ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
The biography of Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution and the woman who helped shape the future of nineteenth-century Europe. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-392) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Sinner -- Sex and politics -- Child of France -- Playmates -- Once upon a time -- Storm clouds over the palace -- The end of the fairy tale -- A new home -- A dangerous game -- The losing side -- Two orphans -- Sole survivor -- Pt. 2. Saint -- Every inch a princess -- Vienna -- The Émigrés -- The birth of a strategist -- A bride -- The new antigone -- Country life -- The only man in the family -- Restoration -- Birth, death and a new dauphine -- Mending fences -- Suspicious confirmed -- Blackmail -- Queen of France -- The matriarch. |
| Subject |
Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, duchesse d', 1778-1851.
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France -- Kings and rulers -- Children -- Biography.
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Family.
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France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
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France -- History -- 1789-1815.
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| ISBN |
9781596910577 |
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1596910577 |
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