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C'était Marie-Antoinette
February 10, 2021
I read this Marie Antoinette biography, by a French historian, in tandem with another with the same title by a British historian, which made for a particularly interesting exercise. Fortunately, both books are quite good. There’s a wealth of information out there about Marie Antoinette and the authors often chose different details to highlight, which kept both interesting, but reading them together makes the books almost impossible to separate now!
This biography was abridged on translation, with the result that it has only 309 pages of text, which makes for a concise and lively telling of Marie Antoinette’s life. Lever’s research seems thorough and her writing is engaging, though quite colorful and opinionated. She cuts through nonsense to get to the point, particularly in her explanation of the Diamond Necklace Affair, which is hopelessly muddled from many writers (from this telling it’s unclear why people find it so complicated: a con woman tricked a cardinal into buying a valuable necklace “for the queen,” pretending to be her go-between, and actually just sold the necklace herself). I’m surprised so many reviewers have criticized Lever for “disliking” Marie Antoinette: first because I’m unconvinced being a partisan is desir
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Marie-Antoinette (biographie de Stefan Zweig)
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Marie-Antoinette — en allemand : Marie Antoinette : Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters — est une biographie de la reine Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, écrite par Stefan Zweig et publiée en 1932 dans l'édition originale en allemand[1], puis en 1933 dans la traduction en français due à Alzir Hella[2].
S'appuyant sur les archives de l'Empire autrichien et sur la correspondance du comte Axel de Fersen, qu'il fut le premier à pouvoir consulter intégralement, Stefan Zweig retrace la vie de cette reine, ni sainte du royalisme, ni prostituée de la Révolution mais une femme somme toute ordinaire.
