Queen Marie Antoinette. Biography

The book you hold in your hands is not a biography. It is not yet another life story of another ruling figure, intended to evoke the usual tears of delight or sympathy for the fates of the powerful of this... world. The bold, merciless, angry texts of pamphlets and invectives, numerous quotations of which are included in this book, make the life and death of Marie Antoinette, «the queen of glorious Frenchmen», a subject for serious reflection: as you read the book, it becomes much clearer what a fateful combination of circumstances and characters led to the tragically famous end. 
«The queen was frivolous, capricious, imprudent - flaws in an ordinary woman, crimes in a queen. She imagined herself on stage, entertaining the entire state with the spectacle of her pleasures. "I need people to applaud or hiss at me," she said. And they hissed - and then they guillotined her.».