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Article: Abundance.(Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette)(Book review)
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- January 1, 2007
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Abundance
A Novel of Marie Antoinette
By Sena Jeter Naslund
The absorbing story of a self-absorbed queen.
Most people know how Marie Antoinette's story ended, but few know how it began. Sena Jeter Naslund fills in the details of the queen's life as she follows her from her days as Maria Antonia, a 14-year-old Austrian archduchess married off to the future French king Louis XVI in 1770 to seal a political alliance. Naslund then chronicles Marie's efforts to produce an heir and outshine her rivals in the opulent French court as unrest grows among the populace. The more familiar part of the story--the Revolution and the ...