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Marie Antoinette Booklist

Nonfiction

• Marie Antoinette: The Journey
  Author: Fraser, Antonia
  Publisher: Nan A. Talese $ 35 ISBN: 038548948X Date: 2001
  PW
  The award-winning biographer of such historical figures as Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell, and King Charles II now pens a riveting portrait of the young Archduchess of Austria, who arrived in France in 1770 to marry the future Louis XVI and was guillotined 23 years later.
  Updated 9.25.06
• Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France
  Author: Lever, Evelyne
  Publisher: FSG $ 30 ISBN: 0374199388 Date: 2000
  LJ
  From Antoinette's birth in Vienna in 1755 through her turbulent and unhappy marriage to Louis XVI, the turmoil of the French Revolution, her trial for high treason, and her final beheading, Lever draws on a variety of resources to weave a gripping, fast-paced historical narrative that reads like expertly crafted fiction.
  Updated 9.18.06
• Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
  Author: Weber, Caroline
  Publisher: Holt $ 27.50 ISBN: 0805079491 Date: 2006
  PW
  In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France.
  Updated 7.31.06

Fiction

• Versailles
  Author: Davis, Kathryn
  Publisher: Houghton $ 21 ISBN: 0618221360 Date: 2002
  Wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise, this novel of the life of Marie Antoinette finds the characters struggling to mind their step in the great ballroom of the world.
  Updated 9.25.06
• The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
  Author: Erickson, Carolly
  Publisher: St Martins $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312337086 Date: 2005
  LJ
  Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life--from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glamorous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution.
  
  Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, and her suffering. We follow, mesmerized, as she reveals every detail of her remarkable, eventful life--from her teenage years when she began keeping a diary to her final days when she awaited her own bloody appointment with the guillotine. - Publisher Marketing.
  Suggested Reading: Historical Fiction
  Updated 8.24.05
• Queen's Confession: A Fictional Autobiography
  Author: Holt, Victoria
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 14.95 ISBN: 0385082762 Date: 1968
  The unforgettable story of Marie Antoinette, from her pampered childhood in imperial Vienna, to the luxury and splendor of her days as Queen of France, to her tragic end upon the scaffold in the bloodbath of the Revolution . . .
  Updated 9.25.06
• Love and Terror
  Author: Jolis, Alan
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 24.95 ISBN: 0871137151 Date: 1988
  When Marie Antoinette escapes from prison on the eve of her trial, Joseph Fouche, Robespierre's dreaded police commission, substitutes his lover Nenette, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the queen. Jolis's fast-paced narrative charts Fouche's relentless search for the real queen in time to save his beloved.
  Updated 9.25.06
• Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
  Author: Naslund, Sena Jeter
  Publisher: Morrow $ 26.95 ISBN: 0060825391 Date: 2006
  PW Kirkus LJ Booklist
  From the author of Ahab's Wife and Four Spirits comes her most astonishing work yet--a portrait of a young queen called Marie Antoinette.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 9.13.06
• Farewell, My Queen
  Author: Thomas, Chantal
  Publisher: Braziller $ 22.50 ISBN: 0807615145 Date: 2003
  Kirkus Booklist PW
  A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars | Historical Fiction Stars
  Updated 6.19.03