Royal Charles by Antonia Fraser5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Weaving together charges against Marie – her alleged contribution to the downfall of the French monarchy and lack of sympathy for the plight of the French population – and the sympathetic readings of her defenders – that she was (and is) the victim of misogyny and the cruelty of Revolutionary France – Fraser shows how the ‘true’ consort was often shrouded beneath the various layers, demands and expectations which the formal life of court, vying political interests, and popular demand placed on her. Fraser presents the life of one of history’s most hotly contested figures: Marie Antoinette, the Austrian Habsburg Princess who married Louis XIV and was ultimately executed in 1793 following the French Revolution. ![]()
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