Article: The Queen Goes Courting. (Books).(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)(Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France)

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

by Antonia Fraser

Doubleday. 608 pp., $35.

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

by Evelyne Lever

Farrar Straus & Giroux. 352 pp., $30.

WHAT'S all the fuss about Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France? Two biographies are being published almost at the same time, Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey, and Evelyne Lever's Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France. Whatever the source of this sudden nostalgia for the ancient regime--a sentiment to which I personally don't subscribe-- I was heartened to discover that my suspicions about Marie Antoinette's sex life were ...

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