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Marie-Antoinette - The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queenWho was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, Joh ...Show more
Marie-Antoinette - The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman
$26.95 AUD
Category: European
A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen "Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a symbol whose meaning is in the eye of her beholder . . . neither martyr nor voluptuary but rather a serious participant in politics."--Lynn Hunt, New York Re ...Show more
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."--P. M. Jones, English Historical Review "Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regi ...Show more
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman
$60.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in the thrall of his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes bo ...Show more
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