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100 1 _aBelloc, Hilaire,
_d1870-1953
245 1 0 _aMarie Antoinette
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2022-12-14
508 _aMWS, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Marie Antoinette" by Hilaire Belloc is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the life of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, during a tumultuous period marked by the approaching French Revolution. It delves into her upbringing, the impact of political machinations on her life, and the influences that ultimately led to her tragic fate as queen. The opening of the work sets the stage for understanding the complex world in which Marie Antoinette lived, beginning with the backdrop of the 18th-century Diplomatic Revolution, which profoundly affected her life. It emphasizes her role as a pawn in the political strategies of her family and others, detailing how her marriage was part of a larger political alliance designed by her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The text highlights Marie Antoinette's early life, the pressures of her royal duties, and the sense of doom that surrounded her existence, as events unfolded that would lead to her untimely end. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited Kingdom: Methuen & Co., 1909
653 _aFrance -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
653 _aMarie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
653 _aQueens -- France -- Biography
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/marieantoinette00bell
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69542
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