Few historical figures continue to excite the imagination as Marie Antoinette does. Beautiful, willful, compassionate, and imperious, her actions in the French court of Louis XVI continues to generate heated debate nearly 2 centuries after her death aat the guillotine. Marie Antoinette's tenure as Queen of France coincided with the increasingly virulent citizen's revolt and many hold her responsible for the chilling events that befell her subjects.
In the Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Madame Campan tells the story from her eyewitness position in the court as her Lady-in-Waiting. A devout royalist who served the court for more than 2 decades, Campan relates what she heard and saw, providing a treasure trove of truth and detail about the everyday life and personality of Marie Antoinette against the backdrop of a court slowly unraveling in the madness of the French Revolution.
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