Marie Antoinette The Last Queen of France

Family life in Vienna, the wedding at Versailles to Louis XVI, the French court, boredom, hypocrisy, loneliness, allies, enemies, extravagant entertainment, scandal, intrigue, sex, birth & bereavement, lovers, peasant riots, the fall of the Bastille, the attack on Versailles, confinement in the Tuileries, escape & capture, mob rule in Paris, imprisonment, the guillotine. Marie Antoinette is a biographer's dream, & Evelyne Lever's account of the life of the inimitable (and last) French queen is a sumptuous, addictive delight. From Marie Antoinette's birth in Vienna in 1755--the fifteenth child of Austrian Archduchess Maria Theresa & Holy Roman Emperor Francis I--through her turbulent & unhappy marriage to Louis XVI, the turmoil of the French Revolution, her trial for high treason (during which she was accused of incest), & her final beheading, Lever draws on a variety of resources, including diaries, letters, & firsthand accounts, to weave a gripping, fast-paced historical narrative that reads like expertly crafted fiction.Lever, Evelyne is the author of 'Marie Antoinette The Last Queen of France' with ISBN 9780374199388 and ISBN 0374199388.