What ensures this is the particular approach Hardman takes. Of course, that alone does not guarantee that this biography will provide a major contribution to the subject. As the author of the standard biography of her husband, Louis XVI, John Hardman has every qualification for turning his attention to Marie Antoinette. The answer, as this fascinating biography proves, is emphatically yes. After so many books and so much polemic about the queen and her fate, is there anything more to say? At an early age, however, both left home for France (Marie Antoinette at fifteen, Napoleon at nine), and both were defined by the most extraordinary event in its modern history, the French Revolution – Napoleon as its beneficiary, Marie Antoinette as its victim. A fter Napoleon, Marie Antoinette is probably the most famous French historical figure in Britain, even though she was originally Austrian and he was Corsican.
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