Splendours and Miseries of a sovereign

Collection of personal writings of the famous queen to the tragic destiny, this superb book is embellished gorgeous designs Benjamin Lacombe, under the gaze of lhistorienne Cécile Berly. In a style inspired by what could be done at the time, the author brings a modern touch, both funny and original, a tad surreal, always with an eye for detail and an extraordinary attention to detail. It seems particularly SETRE much fun with the wigs worn Back then at the Court of Versailles, wigs which can not really know if they were so extravagant or if it's Benjamin Lacombe has forced the line

But over the pages, we discover the humor in both the dune squeaky benevolent queen anguish, poor little rich girl, anxieties will go samplifiant Completion outcome that lon knows. And we come to take dempathie and compassion for the woman who definitely seems to have paid, with her husband, for all the escapades of his predecessors. Imprisoned alone, she was guillotined a few months after Louis XVI. She could not even say goodbye, no more Quà children. Far from haughty portrait quen made history Marie Antoinette reveals an endearing and rather human woman. Certainly you could probably blame her toilet and expensive feasts while the French people enduring poverty, he nempêche that the sovereign was mostly a victim, from his birth to his death. Indeed, through the diplomatic alliances, Marie Antoinette was torn at the age of 15 years in his native Austria to go marry a man what navait ever seen in a country that was foreign to him.

Outside laspect outstanding graphical, louvrage be read, if only to realize that all what was understandable, following the excesses dune expensive and selfish monarchy, the French Revolution and its initiators nen were not less than a terrible cruelty .