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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 14 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Maggi-Meg Reed. |
| Summary |
For more than two centuries Marie Antoinette has been vilified as the heartless, frivolous queen who spent lavishly while her people starved. Now, in the tradition of The Birth of Venus and The Other Boleyn Girl, this moving novel tells her side of the story. 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 as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glamorous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution. Carolly Erickson takes us deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing flight from France in disguise, her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her beloved son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again. Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, her suffering. We follow, mesmerized, as she reveals every detail of her remarkable, eventful life, from her teenage years when she began keeping a diary to her final days when she awaited her own bloody appointment with the guillotine. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Fiction.
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Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 -- Fiction.
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Fersen, Hans Axel von, greve, 1755-1810 -- Fiction.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Fiction.
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France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793 -- Fiction.
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Queens -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Reed, Maggi-Meg.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781593978303 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1593978308 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11822728 |
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