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Marie-Antoinette : the making of a French queen /
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS; PREFACE; ONE FROM ARCHDUCHESS TO DAUPHINE; THE FALL OF CHOISEUL; TWO THE COURT UNDER LOUIS XVI AND MARIE-ANTOINETTE; THE COURT; MADAME DE POLIGNAC; THE COMTE DE VAUDREUIL; AXEL VON FERSEN; THREE A QUEEN IN SEARCH OF A ROLE 1774-1781; MAUREPAS AND MARIE-ANTOINETTE; MARIE-ANTOINETTE'S EARLY POLITICAL INTERVENTIONS; MOTHERHOOD AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS; THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, NECKER AND MARIE-ANTOINETTE; FOUR GROWING UNPOPULARITY 1781-1785; VAUDREUIL AND MARIE-ANTOINETTE
- THE SAINT-CLOUD PURCHASETHE DUTCH AFFAIR; MARIE-ANTOINETTE AND HER CHILDREN; FIVE THE DIAMOND NECKLACE AFFAIR 1785-1786; SIX THE ASCENDANCY OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE 1787-1788; THE REVOLT OF THE PARLEMENT; SEVEN THE LAST YEAR AT VERSAILLES; THE QUEEN'S UNPOPULARITY DEEPENS; NECKER; EIGHT APPEASEMENT AND PLANS FOR RESISTANCE; THE NEW SITUATION: THE LOCATION OF POWER IN 1790; APPEASEMENT AND RESISTANCE; MIRABEAU; THE ESCAPE PLANS; THE OBJECTIVES; THE KING AND QUEEN DECIDE TO ESCAPE; INTRODUCING BARNAVE; NINE THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES; THE REACTION IN PARIS
- MARIE-ANTOINETTE AND BARNAVE: THE START OF A POLITICAL AFFAIRREVISION AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION; TEN 'MARIE-ANTOINETTE WILL BECOME QUEEN OF FRANCE AGAIN'; WAR; ELEVEN THE FALL OF THE MONARCHY; TWELVE IMPRISONMENT IN A TOWER; THE QUEEN'S TRIAL; CONCLUSION; EPILOGUE: UBI SUNT?; NOTES; A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX