Marie Antoinette: A Journey is the best sort of biography: vigorously argued, richly detailed, with a clear viewpoint on its subject. The 512-page book ... of the royal family from Versailles ...

Marie Antoinette has been a subject for both biographers and novelists. Since before her beheading by French revolutionaries, her life has been analyzed and mythologized. Biographer Antonia Fraser ...

Following a seven-year renovation, Marie Antoinette’s private rooms in France’s Palace of Versailles reopened to the public this Tuesday in celebration of the former royal residence’s 400th ...

This book’s theme is the way young Queen Marie Antoinette took up ... inherit the throne or exercise royal power, and this future queen had arrived at Versailles politically ignorant and inept.

Versailles was the center not only of French political power but also of French fashion. Since the reign of Louis XIV, French aristocrats looked to royalty to know what not to wear. The French ...

It isn’t easy to feel sorry for Marie Antoinette when you are in the French Garden at Versailles, where the flowers were changed every night to fend off royal ... friend the Princess de Lamballe ...

Presumably, we all know who Marie Antoinette ... to recreate Versailles in her image: free, independent and feminist. But her ...

In June 1792, the royal family attempted its famous failed escape to Varennes. Breteuil eventually gained military support from Marie Antoinette's native Austria. Both Austria and Prussia invaded ...

Marie Antoinette is one of those historical figures whose lives aren’t as well known as people think. We know that she was the last Queen of France, having been dethroned and then executed ...

Marie-Antoinette, who was the Archduchess of Austria, arrived at the Palace of Versailles in 1770 after her marriage to the future King Louis XVI. Having grown up with the less elaborate ...