Her execution is also described and until now, nobody knows where she is buried. In the following pages, the author describes the execution of Louis XVI and the imprisonment of Marie Antoinette in the Conciergerie. A movie La nuit de Varennes (1982), directed by Ettore Scola with Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla was made based on this escape to Varennes. In the meantime, the book also describes her love affair with the Swede Count Axel von Fersen who played an important role in the attempt to escape from Paris but then the royal family was captured in Varennes. This historical fact is responsible for the advent of the French Revolution. With this affair, the queen credibility was put in charge thus provoking even more the hate of the French people. Alexandre Dumas in his The Queen’s Necklace portrayed in full detail this scandal in the court of Louis XVI. The affair of the diamond necklace was a real disaster to the queen’s reputation. Due to Louis’ impotence in the first years of their marriage, her brother Joseph acted as a counselor in order to save the alliance with France. In the meantime, the Habsburgs are trying to guide her destiny specially when she became Queen of France. In the first part of the book, Antoinette is described as a young monarch which her main concern, once she married Louis XVI, is to enjoy life as much as possible. This book is the most complete biography of Marie Antoinette I have ever read.įirst at all, the author made a huge research work in order to bring the historical facts which surrounded the Marie Antoinette’s life. Memorial to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, sculptures by Edme Gaulle and Pierre Petitot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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