Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average WomanGrove Press, 2002 - Всего страниц: 476 Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history. "Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work." -- The New Republic "Excellent biography." -- The New York Times |
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A CHILD MARRIAGE | 3 |
SECRET OF THE ALCOVE | 20 |
DEBUT AT VERSAILLES | 32 |
FIGHT FOR A WORD | 42 |
CONQUEST OF PARIS | 59 |
THE KING IS DEAD LONG LIVE THE KING | 68 |
PORTRAIT OF A ROYAL COUPLE | 76 |
QUEEN OF THE ROCOCO | 89 |
MIRABEAU | 277 |
PREPARATIONS FOR ESCAPE | 288 |
THE FLIGHT TO VARENNES | 298 |
THE NIGHT IN VARENNES | 308 |
RETURN TO PARIS | 314 |
RECIPROCAL DECEPTION | 323 |
THE FRIENDS LAST APPEARANCE | 332 |
FLIGHT INTO WAR | 342 |
TRIANON | 104 |
THE NEW SOCIETY | 116 |
A FRATERNAL VISIT | 125 |
MOTHERHOOD | 136 |
THE QUEEN BECOMES UNPOPULAR | 144 |
A THUNDERCLAP IN THE ROCOCO THEATRE | 156 |
THE DIAMOND NECKLACE | 170 |
TRIAL AND SENTENCE | 187 |
THE PEOPLE AND THE QUEEN AWAKEN | 200 |
THE DECISIVE SUMMER | 208 |
FRIENDS DESERT | 217 |
A FRIEND APPEARS | 226 |
WAS HE OR WAS HE NOT? | 237 |
THE LAST NIGHT IN VERSAILLES | 248 |
THE HEARSE OF THE MONARCHY | 258 |
SELFAWARENESS | 266 |
LAST CRIES | 350 |
THE TENTH OF AUGUST | 356 |
THE TEMPLE | 367 |
MARIE ANTOINETTE ALONE | 381 |
FINAL SOLITUDE | 389 |
THE CONCIERGERIE | 401 |
A LAST ENDEAVOUR | 408 |
THE SUPREME INFAMY | 416 |
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION | 427 |
ON TRIAL BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL | 434 |
DRIVE TO THE SCAFFOLD | 448 |
THE KEENING | 455 |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | 462 |
POSTFACE | 466 |
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