One of history\'s most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France.
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Her novel The Tsarina\'s Daughter won the Romantic Times Reviewer\'s Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction.
About the Author: Distinguished historian Carolly Erickson is the author of Rival to the Queen, The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots, The First Elizabeth, The Hidden Life of Josephine, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction.
In To the Scaffold, Carolly Erickson provides an estimation of a lost Queen that is psychologically acute, richly detailed, and deeply moving.
In time Antoinette matured into a courageous Queen, and when their enemies finally closed in, Antoinette followed her inept husband to the guillotine in one last act of bravery.
She spent lavishly while her overtaxed and increasingly hostile subjects blamed her for France\'s plight.
Married to the maladroit, ill-mannered Dauphin, Antoinette found pleasure in costly entertainments and garments.
Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court.
One of history\'s most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France
