Part of Abbott’s Makers of History series, this narrative follows Marie Antoinette from her childhood at the Austrian court and her marriage to the future Louis XVI to the splendour of Versailles. It covers the affair of the diamond necklace, the mob that marched on Versailles, the flight to Varennes, imprisonment and the tragedy of the Revolution.
A readable nineteenth-century life of the queen, written with frank sympathy for its subject. Download the free EPUB.