Marie-Antoinette : The Making of a French Queen / John Hardman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardman, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.

Marie Antoinette.

Queens--France--Biography.

Queens.

France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

PREFACE

1. From Archduchess to Dauphine

2. The Court under Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

3. A Queen in Search of a Role, 1774-1781

4. Growing Unpopularity, 1781-1785

5. The Diamond Necklace Affair, 1785-1786

6. The Ascendancy of Marie-Antoinette, 1787-1788

7. The Last Year at Versailles

8. Appeasement and Plans for Resistance: The Tuileries and Saint-Cloud

9. The Flight to Varennes

10. 'Marie-Antoinette will become Queen of France again': Government by Letter

11. The Fall of the Monarchy

12. Imprisonment in a Tower

CONCLUSION

EPILOGUE: UBI SUNT?

NOTES

A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24903-9

OCLC:

1117628512