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I highly recommend becoming marie antoinette by juliet grey. Marie antoinette is a hard personality for me to like. Becoming marie antoinette by juliet grey, 9780345523860, available at book. Biography audiobooks antonia fraser marie antoinette part 02. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen. She has extensively researched european royalty and is a particular devotee of marie antoinette, as well as a classically trained professional actress wit. Jun 14, 2011 book trailer for juliet greys novel becoming marie antoinette, the first title in a historical fiction trilogy about the life of frances most glamorous and notorious queen.
Wellresearched and lovingly written with sparkling detailsthis new trilogy is not one to be missed by any lover of historical fiction or marie antoinette centered works. I previously knew very little about marie antoinette, only that she was the queen of france who was beheaded during the french revolution and that she once said, of the starving masses, let them eat cake. Granted, becoming marie antoinette is simply book 1 in a series, but i had wished it had continued a little bit longer just when the story starts to. Like many children in this period of time 2 of the children of marie antoinette died prematurely, sophie beatrix was not even a year old, and the dauphin, louis joseph died at the age of 7 from tuberculosis. This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the. Marie antoinette audiobooks listen to the full series. But behind the extravagance of the young queens elaborate silk gowns and dizzyingly high coiffures, she harbors deeper fears for her future and that of the bourbon dynasty. He is best known for his novels the three musketeers, the count of monte cristo, the man in the iron mask and many others. Aug 09, 2011 becoming marie antoinette is the 1st in the trilogy starting with the early childhood of marie antoinette the austrian archduchess and the early years of her marriage to louis auguste. Becoming marie antoinette marie antoinette trilogy, book 1 by. Becoming marie antoinette audiobook cd king county. Order of alexandre dumas books alexandre dumas, pere 18021870 was a french author of historical fiction and adventure novels, in addition to being a playwright. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read becoming marie antoinette.
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