Magnificent very moving book written by a great historian of the XVIII, reads like a novel. This is the story of a young Austrian became Queen of France, married to a good man but indifferent, that was King unprepared and especially who do not have the taste-. All her life she will be torn between the insistence of his mother -avide manipulative power and conquêtes- the formidable Maria Theresa of Austria and obligations of Queen of France. All his short life, Marie Antoinette has been constrained to a dual loyalty, his home country of Austria, his adopted country France. Some criticize her frivolous side, she was young, she was alone. Unfair trial which led to the scaffold two "innocent" -and so many other equally innocent and that probably did not deserve this Execution- of all that was obnoxiously reproached! This is our history is the history of France and in this book is quite interesting!
