The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette

Author: Marie-France Boyer List Price: $19.95 You save: USD -39.70 (-198%) Buy new: $59.65 Buy used: $5.20 Avg.Rating: ( reviews) Sales rank: 459909 Qty: 34 in stock Media: Edition: Reading Level: Pages: 112 Number Of Items: Shipping Weight (lbs): 97 Dimensions (in): 787 x 890 x 55 ISBN: 0500286329 EAN: 9780500286326 ASIN: 0500286329 Publication Date: 2006-09-25

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"Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat."—Interior Design

Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793. She has been romanticized as the martyred queen, admired as the personification of eighteenth-century French royal style, and vilified as the Austrian whose frivolous extravagance and foreign sympathies fired the French Revolution.

This book turns aside from the official portraits and great historical events to rediscover the private places and objects that reflect Marie Antoinette's personality and reveal her more directly to our modern gaze. Beautifully photographed by François Halard, the rooms and buildings she inhabited are shown here in fascinating detail, from the distinctive fabrics and furnishings to the queen's favorite objects—an amber curiosity, a Chinese lacquer gift from her mother, a porcelain bowl. 123 illustrations, 108 in color.