Marie Antoinette

This biography follows Marie Antoinette from Austrian archduchess and French dauphine to queen, prisoner and victim of the French Revolution. Fraser examines her marriage to Louis XVI, her public unpopularity, the politics of Versailles, the necklace scandal, the fall of monarchy and the radicalisation of revolutionary France. The book is concerned with the gap between the historical woman and the hostile image created around her by court gossip, pamphlet culture and revolutionary propaganda.