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-The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette- is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the significant role women have always played in history. It is one of a series of six biographies of the queens, regents and royal mistresses of the French monarchy. In it, the highly acclaimed Simone Bertiere re-reads the innumerable source materials about Marie-Antoinette, and in a most engaging style, paints a startlingly new portrait of the queen. With great psychological insight, she brings Marie-Antoinette and her circle back to life not as representatives of their class, but as flesh-and-blood human beings in positions of extraordinary power and privilege, facing profound changes in the world they could not understand but were supposed to lead.

Why -indomitable-? Because however frivolous her tastes may have been, the fierce determination she showed in getting what she wanted was only matched by her resistance to anything she didn't. She willfully carved out a private life for herself in the face of opposition from a most rigid and hierarchical court. And despite being ill prepared for it, she would in the end play a key political role in the French Revolution, incurring the hatred of the masses rising up against the crumbling monarchy.

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708 pages
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French
Publisher

de Fallois
Publication date

February 28, 2018
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6 x 1.42 x 9 inches
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2877068463
ISBN-13

978-2877068468
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ de Fallois (February 28, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ French
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 708 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2877068463
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2877068468
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.42 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,429,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Barbara Roberts

A Fascinating Look at a Tragic Queen.

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2015

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A fascinating look at one of history's most misunderstood women. Gracefully written by Madame Bertiere and superbly translated by Dr. Mary Hudson, this book was hard to put down even knowing how it would all end. Barbara Roberts, MD

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Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2015

I have been wanting to read this book for YEARS
I was always got upset that it was never translated into english . THANK YOU so much for explaining WHY it is impossible to gef this book!
makes me kind of mad though that now it is in english and i can not get it still
WOW at that price!!

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Dory Green

Withholding of book a disgrace

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2014

This is a delightfully well-written translation of a French biography of the French queen Marie Antoinette by Simone Bertiere. It is no longer available at a fair price or in reasonable quantities due to the desire of Amazon to make a larger profit on sales. The book, translated into English by the estimable Mary Hudson, is virtually unavailable in the U.S. because Amazon is trying to force book distributor Hachette Group into a sales agreement that is unfair and unreasonable. You, the consumer, therefore are overcharged or denied access to the book at any reasonable price or in e-Book format at all.

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francesco

The best biography of Marie Antoinette Queen of France

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2019

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I consider Simon Bertiere's biography as one of the best along with Castelot's and Fraser's. While Castelot is too strict to the Queen's conduct in politics and court affairs and Fraser is perhaps too sympathetic to the Queen, Bertiere is more balanced in that proves how really influential Marie Antoinette was in strictly political issues before the Revolution and how stubborn and domineering she could be and was when dealing with her favourite minions and the life at Versailles and her pursuit of her desires as Queen of Versailles and mistress of the Trianon. The question of her marital life, Bertiere gives a more plausible explanation. While during her first years as Dauphine and Queen she had to cope with Louis XVI's clumsiness and lack of trust towards her, she eventually avoided the marital bed as part of her ribelliousness and distraction in her pursuit of her luxurious life. As far as her role in the Revolution, Bertiere maintains that her involvement was caused by the timid nature of the King, her goal to protect her son's inheritance, avoid the fall of the monarchy and save the Royal Family. This is in contrast with Castelot's effort at showing a meddling, arrogant foreign Queen. The problem of studying any historical character is applying one's political and moral categories to an individual who lived in a different time and context. This is not an apology but a question of coherence Bertiere fully applies to this misunderstood Queen. I wish this excellent biography could go mainstream as it is perhaps the only one that gives a really nuanced and balanced view of Marie Antoinette Queen of France.

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