Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette follows the Austrian archduchess who married the future Louis XVI and became queen of France. It traces her arrival at Versailles, the pressures surrounding the royal marriage, court faction and the hostile public image created by accusations of extravagance and foreign influence.

The biography places the queen within the monarchy’s deepening crisis, the Revolution and the failed flight to Varennes. It examines imprisonment, trial and execution while separating documented conduct from the rumours and political pornography that helped turn her into a symbol of the old regime.