Marie Antoinette The last queen of France
Book - 2000
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- Published
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin
[2000]
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Item Description
- Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.
- Physical Description
- viii, 357 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-344) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780312283339
- 1.. Daughter of Maria Theresa
- 2.. Great Expectations
- 3.. A Royal Marriage
- 4.. The Versailles Court
- 5.. Madame la Dauphine
- 6.. End of a Reign, End of an Era
- 7.. A Happy Accession
- 8.. "Little Twenty-Year-Old Queen"
- 9.. The Coronation
- 10.. The Queen's Circle
- 11.. Venus and Vulcan
- 12.. The Queen's Intrigues
- 13.. The Brother's Visit
- 14.. Motherhood
- 15.. Fersen
- 16.. Queen of Trianon
- 17.. Birth of a Dauphin
- 18.. Fersen's Return
- 19.. Last Illusions
- 20.. Scandal in the Air
- 21.. The Diamond Necklace Affair
- 22.. "Madame Deficit"
- 23.. "My Fate Is to Bring Bad Luck"
- 24.. "Do You Know a Woman More to Be Pitied Than Me?"
- 25.. The Fall of the Bastille
- 26.. The Last Summer at Versailles
- 27.. The Tragedy of October 1789
- 28.. The Tuileries
- 29.. Escape Plans
- 30.. The Varennes Drama
- 31.. The Impasse
- 32.. The Last Show of Strength
- 33.. The Fall of the Monarchy
- 34.. The Death of the King
- 35.. The Conciergerie
- 36.. Trial and Death of the Queen
- Epilogue: What Became of Them?
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index