Product Description: This `untold story' is a vivid and poignant portrait of the last, desperate days of the Bourbons"" - Sunday Times. Farr's careful reading of contemporary sources reveals a queen who, from the day she arrived in France in 1770, was the victim of political intrigue, captive to a destiny from which she could not escape...read more

Product Description: Parisian nobility in the reign of Louis XVI is usually dismissed as a privileged, frivolous, and decadent élite, a cause of revolution in France rather than a catalyst for reform. Farr draws on contemporary sources to provide an insight not only into the royal infamous love affairs and scandals, but also the relations between king and court, the aristocracy's support for liberty and equality long before the unwahsed jumped on the wagon, and the increasing isolation and unpopularity of Marie-Antoinette"" - Reference & Research Book News...read more