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Article: `Marie Antoinette: The Journey,' by Antonia Fraser; Doubleday.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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Her doltish husband was unable to consummate their marriage for more than seven years. Her overbearing mother blamed her for the bedroom problems in an endless stream of hectoring letters. Scurrilous pamphlets accused her of love affairs with her best girlfriend and with a Roman Catholic cardinal _ among others.

No wonder Marie Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake." Only she didn't really say anything like that, as Antonia Fraser reveals in her sympathetic new biography of the French queen who lost her head to the guillotine.

Since publication of her now-classic "Mary, Queen of Scots" in 1969, Fraser has worked her way through several of Mary's ...

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