Random House Publishing Group
Featuring: Marie Antoinette
480 pages ISBN: 0345523865 EAN: 9780345523860 Kindle: B004J4WMXQ Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Most know of the infamous French Queen whose spending habits
were to blame for the fall of the French Monarchy but few
realize that the amazing story started when she was the
pampered youngest daughter of the Queen of Austria. BECOMING
MARIE ANTOINETTE by Juliet Grey tells the story of how a
small child was groomed to be the first lady of one of the
most powerful countries at that time.
This fictional adaptation of the early life of Marie
Antoinette relays that the young archduchess' life was not a
fairy tale as many would believe. Many historical facts
appear through out the story informing the readers to the
trials and tribulations that a young child had to endure in
order to please her mother and her future family. Once she
was married and whisked off to a foreign country, the future
Queen of France suffered severe culture shock and constant
ridicule from those who surrounded her at the court of
Versailles.
This is a wonderful tale of what a person had to overcome to
please all those around her and adapt to foreign
surroundings. The time frame of this first installment of
what is to be a trilogy is from her childhood in Austria to
when she has become Queen. I personally feel this is the
most interesting time of Marie Antoinette's life since the
person she is to become is molded during these precious
years. The story telling of Juliet Grey flows seamlessly as
we learn of actual events in the young Monarch's life. The
budding romance between Marie and her beloved husband Louis
is told in such a way that you picture the shy beauty trying
to win the affection of her awkwardly anti-social groom.
This is a wonderful story for anyone who is interested in
learning about the rise of Marie Antoinette or for novice
historians out there who enjoy reading historical fiction
centered around their favorite people of history.
This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new
trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian
archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen
Marie Antoinette.
Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly
inadequate to my destiny?
Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the
formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia
knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed
to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never
anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon.
Before she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters
in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles,
Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be
accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward
teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Yet nothing can
prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to
become queen.
Filled with smart history, treacherous rivalries, lavish
clothes, and sparkling jewels, Becoming Marie Antoinette
will utterly captivate fiction and history lovers alike.
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