Queen Maria Antoinette. Biography. Her private and intimate life in pamphlets and Pasquili of that time

The book that you hold in your hands is not a biography. This is not another biography of the next reigning person, designed to cause familiar tears of delight or tenderness to the fate of the powers that be. The daring, merciless, angry texts of pamphlets and Pasquili, in many given in this book, make the life and death of Maria Antoinette, the “queen of glorious French”, the subject of serious thoughts: as the book reads, it becomes much more understandable, what a fateful combination of circumstances and characters led To the sad-known end.
The queen was frivolous, windy, unreasonable - shortcomings in an ordinary woman, crime in the queen. She imagined herself on stage, amusing the whole state with a sight of her pleasures. “I need to be applauded or whistled,” she said. And they whistled - and then guillotine. "