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Lucid Interactive presents a biographical sketch written by Robin Chew about Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), the queen of Louis XVI of France. The sketch highlights the queen's family history and her execution by the guillotine.
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Lucid Interactive presents a biographical sketch written by Robin Chew about Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), the queen of Louis XVI of France. The sketch highlights the queen's family history and her execution by the guillotine.
Author: Nancy Plain Publisher: Marshall Cavendish ISBN: 9780761410294 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 92
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Examines the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, including information about their personal lives and accomplishments and everyday life in Revolutionary France.
Author: Helene Delalex Publisher: Getty Publications ISBN: 1606064835 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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Marie-Antoinette (1755–1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France’s aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country’s monarchy. The great material privileges she enjoyed and her glamorous role as an arbiter of fashion and a patron of the arts in the French court, set against her tragic death on the scaffold, still spark the popular imagination. In this gorgeously illustrated volume, the authors find a fresh and nuanced approach to Marie-Antoinette’s much-told story through the objects and locations that made up the fabric of her world. They trace the major events of her life, from her upbringing in Vienna as the archduchess of Austria, to her ascension to the French throne, to her execution at the hands of the revolutionary tribunal. The exquisite objects that populated Marie-Antoinette’s rarefied surroundings—beautiful gowns, gilt-mounted furniture, chinoiserie porcelains, and opulent tableware—are depicted. But so too are possessions representing her personal pursuits and private world, including her sewing kit, her harp, her children’s toys, and even the simple cotton chemise she wore as a condemned prisoner. The narrative is sprinkled with excerpts from her correspondence, which offer a glimpse into her personality and daily life. Visually rich and engaging, Marie-Antoinette offers a fascinating look at the multifaceted life of France’s last, ill-fated queen.
Author: John S. C. Abbott Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 9781434466259 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (1755-1793), known to history as Marie Antoinette, was born an Archduchess of Austria, and later became Queen of France. She was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14. She was executed at the height of the French Revolution.
Author: John S. C. Abbott Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 9781434466266 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (1755-1793), known to history as Marie Antoinette, was born an Archduchess of Austria, and later became Queen of France. She was married to Louis XVI of France at age 14. She was executed at the height of the French Revolution.
Author: Dana Meachen Rau Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399539751 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 112
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From the palaces of Austria to the mirrored halls of Versailles, Marie Antoinette led a charmed life. She was born into royalty in 1755 and married the future king of France at age 15. By 21 she ascended to the throne and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of masquerade balls, sky-high wigs, and extravagant food. But her taste for excess ruffled many feathers. The poor people of France blamed Marie Antoinette for their poverty. Her spending helped incite the French Revolution. And after much public outcry, in 1793 she quite literally lost her head because of it. Whether she was blameless or guilty is debatable, but Marie Antoinette remains woven into the fabric of history and popular culture.
Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1775411583 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 722
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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette is an inside look into the life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, written by her First Lady in Waiting Madame Campan. Born in 1755 and married to Louis XVI of France at the age of 14, Antoinette was renowned for her fabled excesses. She was condemned for treason in 1793 at the zenith of the French Revolution, forfeiting her life to the razor-edge of a guillotine.
Author: John Abbott Publisher: ISBN: 9781456493974 Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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Marie Antoinette ; Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I.At the age of fourteen, on the day of her marriage to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, she became Dauphine de France. At the death of King Louis XV, in May 1774, her husband ascended the throne of France as King Louis XVI, and Marie Antoinette assumed the title of Queen of France and of Navarre. After seven years of marriage she gave birth to a daughter, Marie-Th r se Charlotte, the first of their four children.Initially charmed by her personality and beauty, the French people generally came to dislike her, accusing "the Austrian" of being profligate and promiscuous, and of harboring sympathies for France's enemies.At the height of the French Revolution, Louis XVI was deposed and the royal family was imprisoned. Nine months after her husband's execution, she was tried, convicted of treason, and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793.
Author: Andre Castelot Publisher: Ishi Press ISBN: 9784871878548 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 448
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This is the biography of one of the most tragic women in History. It is the story of a frivolous young girl who threw wild parties and spent a lot of her husband's money and for that reason, and that reason alone, she had her head chopped off in public. The back cover photo here shows Marie Antoinette being given her last rights by a clergyman as she was waiting before the guillotine for the executioners to cut off her head, and while a crowd of thousands watched. Her last words were one of apology to one of her executioners, when she accidentally stepped on his foot. All of the events of the Life of Marie Antoinette are brilliantly explained in this biography by Andre Castelot. The most haunting and harrowing pages of the biography are Castelot's darkly etched picture of the Queen in the culminating moments of her life. Perhaps it is not in the least a paradox that one of the most arrantly self-indulgent women should, in her adversity, provide one of the most memorable images of mother love."
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Author: Nancy Plain
Author: Helene Delalex
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Author: Dana Meachen Rau
Author: Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan
Author: John Abbott
Author: Emile Henriot
Author: Andre Castelot