I bought this book at the end of my first pregnancy. I love historical books. I wanted to know more about Marie Antoinette. I had a little trouble to start the book and then I dive into it me. I quickly attached to the character that I find extraordinary ... Adored, hated, party girl, whimsical, romantic, carefree ... I think At the age of 14, everything is taken from him on Ile aux Epis, in the middle of the Rhine: a true rite of passage that woman's life. It will soon be talked about at the court. It will avoid to talk to the Comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XIV. Her husband Louis XVI forsake the to hunt and build locks. He forsake even physically .. Louis is low. Ladies Aunts manipulated by it will not happen to the labels of the court. Drop several years we will not show him the real Paris and her poverty. She will live at Versailles knowing that luxury and pomp. She released a secretly hidden holidays, give life fashionable hairstyles quite extravagant, buy tons of jewelry by emptying the coffers of the court, fall in love with the handsome Count Axel de Fersen. Built for the Trianon sy refuge with her children and live a retired life. The trap will close on it ... The intrigues of poor women and men or rich, interested .. will behind it to use and to see the eyes of the people "hungry" as the only guilty of the misery of the French (The Affair of the Necklace). The end of Versailles, the glitz. The failure of her husband to master the situation ... a tragic end. He will humiliate him until the end .. I remember what shocked me most, as a mom: having removed him ... he is accused of fondling his beloved son. What's worse for a mother ... They are made witness his son the bar by making him tell lies for the fall ... I felt pity for this woman who served from an early age to the intrigues of the times ... Thank you for this beautiful book that taught me a lot about the life of this woman before I did not know.
