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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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DOUBLEDAY CANADA, 2001
Marie Antoinette is popularly known for her cruel response to the starving French populace, embodied in the quip, "Let them eat cake!" But according to her biographer, Antonia Fraser, she never said those words. Fraser argues, on the contrary, that this famous Queen of France was slandered and vilified in her own time and over the past 200 years as extravagant, cold-hearted, uneducated, naïve, malicious and licentious. She was, in short, the victim of political manipulation and bad press, and was not the cause of the French Revolution. Born in Vienna in 1755, she married the future king of France at 14, and died at the guillotine in Paris at 37, …
