Marie-Th�er�ese, child of terror the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter
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- ISBN: 9781415945193 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415945195 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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remote - Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2008.
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General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 18:15:08. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Rosalyn Landor. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 262307 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution. Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an era, the tumultuous last days of the crumbling ancien r�egime. Nagel brings the formidable Marie-Th�er�ese to life, along with the age of revolution and the waning days of the aristocracy, in a page-turning biography that will appeal to fans of Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette. In December 1795, at midnight on her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Th�er�ese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, escaped from Paris's notorious Temple Prison. To this day many believe that the real Marie-Th�er�ese, traumatized following her family's brutal execution during the Reign of Terror, switched identities with an illegitimate half sister who was often mistaken for her twin.