The novel opens in August 1785 with Marie Antoinette as a happy queen, playing at Trianon. It follows the scandal of the Queen’s Necklace, the hostility of court enemies, the coming of the Revolution and the imprisonment of the royal family, then turns to the fate of her young son, the uncrowned Louis XVII.
Popular historical fiction in the grand nineteenth-century manner, for readers fascinated by the last queen of old France. Download the free EPUB.