Flaunting, Extravagant Queen

Name: Flaunting, Extravagant Queen
Rating: 4.3 (244 reviews)

by Jean Plaidy Book 3 in the French Revolution series.

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Marie Antoinette arrives at Versailles at fifteen as the Austrian bride of the future Louis XVI. Beautiful, inexperienced and impatient with the rigid etiquette of the French court, she becomes a focus for factional rivalry and gossip while her difficult marriage leaves the succession uncertain.

As queen, her taste for amusement and her resistance to court convention increasingly collide with France’s political and financial crisis. The novel follows the transformation of a sheltered archduchess into a controversial public figure as hostility to the monarchy grows. Personal relationships, court scandal and the queen’s own misjudgements are set against the gathering pressure that will culminate in the French Revolution.