TY  - GEN
T1  - Marie-Antoinette : the making of a French queen
A1  - Hardman, John, 1944-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1117628512
AB  - 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
OP  - 363
CN  - DC137.1 .H37 2019
SN  - 9780300249033
SN  - 0300249039
SN  - 9780300243086
KW  - Marie Antoinette, : Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, : 1755-1793.
KW  - Marie Antoinette, : Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, : 1755-1793
KW  - Queens : France : Biography.
KW  - Reines : France : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Royalty.
KW  - Biography.
KW  - Queens
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -