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Article: MARIE ANTOINETTE'S LAST RIDE.(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)
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- Interview
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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A BOLD NEW BIOGRAPHY CHANGES THE PROFILE OF THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN HISTORY
Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake." That's just one fact in an arsenal Antonia Fraser deploys in her highly revisionist, sure-to-be-controversial reappraisal, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, coming out this month) with the Impassioned skill of a master defender. Long before Leona Helmsley, Imelda Marcos and Lizzie Grubman, Marie Antoinette--the Austrian archduchess who was married to the future Louis XVI and then swept away by the revolutionary violence that totaled France's ancien regime--was the icon of conscienceless greed and conspicuous ...
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