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Marie-Antoinette

The Making of a French Queen

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Marie-Antoinette

De : John Hardman
Lu par : Jonathan Cowley
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A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen  

Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story.  

Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how, from the outset, Marie-Antoinette refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, Maria-Theresa, bravely took over the helm from Louis XVI after the collapse of his morale, and, when revolution broke out, listened to the Third Estate and worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it.

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The text of the book avoids getting bogged down in detail whilst succeeding to include a lot of detail. Queen Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as an astute and well-informed person rather than being represented as a frivolous lightweight as she usually is. The only other writer I know who hzs fone her such justice is Stéfan Sweig. But the reader almost made me stop listening to this book very early on, the good writing kept me engaged. The reader has a pour delivery ln terms of intonation, pauses, use of ponctuation etc PLUS a terrible and inconsistent use of (what he must have thought) was a decent French accent. It was both distracting and annoying.

Great writer - bad reader

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