Julian Fellowes
Things Got a Little Out of Hand
Marie-Antoinette
By Ian Dunlop
Sinclair-Stevenson 411pp order from our bookshop
On 16 October 1993 it will be two hundred years since the execution of the Queen of France and to mark this anniversary Sinclair-Stevenson have decided to publish yet another biography of her. Familiar as I am with the accounts of her life by Belloc and Zweig, to say nothing of Hearsey, Seward, Haslip et al, I must confess that I approached the book with the leaden query of what on earth anyone could find new to say about this most unhappy of sovereigns.
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