For more than two centuries Marie Antoinette has been vilified as the heartless, frivolous queen who spent lavishly while her people starved. Now, in the tradition of The Birth of Venus and The Other Boleyn Girl, this moving new novel tells her side of the story. 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 lifeâ??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. Carolly Erickson takes us deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing flight from France in disguise, her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her beloved son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again. Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, 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.… (más)
Livesinthestars: Both books are historical fiction based on women often trying to follow their own desires in a time when their gender was often rendered powerless.
Y si la noche anterior a su muerte en la guillotina MarÃa Antonieta hubiera dejado en su celda de la cárcel un diario en el que contara su vida? Su privilegiada infancia como archiduquesa austriaca, los lujosos años de gran dama de Versalles y los meses de condena durante la Revolución francesa ya no serÃan uno de los secretos mejor guardados de todos los tiempos. Carolly Erickson deja hablar por sà misma a una de las mujeres más calumniadas de la Historia: el miedo en la aterradora noche en que la muchedumbre parisina irrumpió en el dormitorio de palacio con la intención de asesinarla junto al resto de su familia; el angustioso intento de huir de Francia disfrazada; la captura y los lúgubres meses de dura cautividad; y su sufrimiento cuando su esposo fue guillotinado y su hijo arrancado de sus brazos para siempre.
For more than two centuries Marie Antoinette has been vilified as the heartless, frivolous queen who spent lavishly while her people starved. Now, in the tradition of The Birth of Venus and The Other Boleyn Girl, this moving new novel tells her side of the story. 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 lifeâ??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. Carolly Erickson takes us deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing flight from France in disguise, her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her beloved son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again. Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, 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.
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Carolly Erickson deja hablar por sà misma a una de las mujeres más calumniadas de la Historia: el miedo en la aterradora noche en que la muchedumbre parisina irrumpió en el dormitorio de palacio con la intención de asesinarla junto al resto de su familia; el angustioso intento de huir de Francia disfrazada; la captura y los lúgubres meses de dura cautividad; y su sufrimiento cuando su esposo fue guillotinado y su hijo arrancado de sus brazos para siempre.