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 life - 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 the reader deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to ...
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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 life - 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 the reader 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; her fears on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing attempted flight from France in disguise; her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; and her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her young son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again. Erickson brilliantly captures the queen's voice, her hopes, her dreads, and 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 HAS DONE A GOOD JOB GETTING INTO THE MIND OF THIS ILL FATED QUEEN WHO HAD SUCH PROMISE BUT ENDED UP BEING SO MISUNDERSTOOD AND SCAPEGOATED FOR SO MANY WHO RULED BEFORE. THIS NOVEL MAKES HER A FLESH AND BLOOD WOMAN WITH EMOTIONS THAT WERE PERHAPS TOO INTENSE. ALL IN ALL A GOOD READ.
GowerMeower
Apr 4, 2007
Marie Antoinette in her "own" words
There have been a plethora of "Hidden Diary" books recently, none more of an exciting read than the hidden diary of Marie Antoinette. Poignantly, Carolly Erickson's fictionalized Marie Antoinette is a victim of a fate she does not deserve, nor that she understands. Why was she so hated by a people she loved and only wanted to please, and who once celebrated her arrival as the new Dauphine? Why were so many scandalous lies and gossips spread about her character? She approaches the puzzlements in a very human fashion, speaking privately in diary format, so that her thoughts are simply stated and the tale told easily and understandably. One feels anguished by the trials and tribulations forced on this woman, once a Queenof France, but also a caring wife to Louis XVI and a paragon of motherhood to her little children, for whom all her actions were focused on saving.
