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Title: The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer, Francois Halard ISBN: 0-500-01690-9 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: July, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Fairy Queen
Comment: I must agree with the other reviewers, and say this a wonderful book. The text is limited, but the photographs make it well worth your while. In all there are 123 illustrations, 108 of them in color, and each is more beautiful than the former.
The photographs focus mainly on the small details of Marie Antoinette's rooms, rather than the entire room itself. It is all those small details that made her style so exquisite.
Represented here are her private apartments at Versailles, the Petit Trianon her little stone treasure, the Hamlet she created so that she could pretend to be a simple county girl, the opulent boudoir at the chateau de Fontainbleau, and the simple yet elegant laiterie at Rambouillet.
Like the former reviewer, I was disappointed in the lack of focus on the interior of the Petit Trianon (there is only an antique postcard depicting her bedroom there), but I think that was my only disappointment. I especially enjoyed the section on her boudior at Fontainebleau, which is Marie Antoinette at her grandest.
Overall, it is a delectable little book that you should enjoy for years to come. After all, those places lucky enough to have been stamped by her unique taste are as timeless as the great lady herself.
Rating: 5
Summary: An absolutely beautiful book!
Comment: A combination of book and little jewel box! A visually stunning book, it captures in its photos and drawings the magnificence of French court life during the reign of King Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette had such exquisite taste and the author conveys this admirably. A definite keeper!
Rating: 5
Summary: Open the cover and journey to Antoinette's Versailles
Comment: As the author of a novel and an award-winning website dedicated to the tragic and dazzling queen, I am a bonafide Marie Antoinette fanatic. For years now, I have read every scrap of paper ever written about Marie Antoinette. I am thrilled to learn new things (like that she drank hot chocolate made with orange water to soothe her sore throat or that she once flicked bread crumbs across the table at Louis XVI). Too, I have been to Petite Trianon and Le Hameau. I have wandered the paths and rolling hills, I have fingered the woodwork in her private rooms.
This beautiful and interesting book is like taking a trip to Versailles (but far less expensive and minus the crowds). The photographs are breath taking, the writing is entertaining.
This book is eye-candy for anyone who appreciates 18th century France, architecture or gardening. It is a MUST OWN book for anyone even remotely interested in My Queen....
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Title: Marie Antoinette : The Journey by Antonia Fraser ISBN: 0385489498 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (Great Grove Lives) by Stefan Zweig, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul ISBN: 0802139094 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Marie Antoinette : The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever, Catherine Temerson ISBN: 0312283334 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 24 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title:Biography - Marie Antoinette ASIN: B000006QGG Publisher: A & E Entertainment Pub. Date: 07 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.95 |
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Title: Farewell, My Queen: A Novel by Chantal Thomas, Moishe Black ISBN: 0807615145 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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