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Title: Farewell, My Queen: A Novel by Chantal Thomas, Moishe Black ISBN: 0-8076-1514-5 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read!
Comment: Chantal Thomas did a wonderful job on this one-it made up for that travesty of a book, 'The Wicked Queen'. I wasn't sure if I should read it at first, because of her depiction of Marie Antoinette in her last book. Presented in memoir form, this is told from the perspective of M.A.'s reader, while in exile in Vienna during the reign of Napoleon. It is fascinating to read about daily life in the chateau de Versailles and the court of France during the Revolution. I would reccomend this to anyone who likes Marie Antoinette, the French Rev., or daily life in the past.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bastille Day remembered
Comment: This is the way I like to read history, from the point of view of a nobody caught in the unavoidable currents of destiny. Chantal Thomas comes by her knowledge honestly having been the Director of Research at the Centre National de le Recherche Scientifique, specializing in 18th literature.
Meet Agathe Laborde who is remembering from her exile in Vienna, those fateful July days of 1789 when, in her youth, she was reader to the myopic, charismatic Marie Antoinette in her fabulous Versailles court.
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN is one of RebeccasReads highly recommended books, rich with earthy insights into & half-glimpsed intrigues of a long lost way of life where adoration of & loyalty to royalty could cost you your life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful read
Comment: ...This is a wonderful, atmospheric book that in my mind really succeeded in giving a sense of the ways that the French Revolution completely took apart the aristocracy. Thomas helps the reader to understand how it must have felt to feel the very marble floors crumbling under your feet, as everything you knew is suddenly gone. It's clear, also, what a house of cards it was -- full of gold, diamonds, and mirrors, to be sure, but a house of cards nevertheless, completely dependent on the support of a vast system of nobles, retainers, servants, etc. etc. I liked the narrator very much, and felt real pity for the king and queen, even as I thought, "You brought it all on yourself." Give "Farewell, My Queen," a try.
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Title: The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA by Deborah Cadbury ISBN: 0312283121 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Versailles: A Novel by Kathryn Davis ISBN: 0316737615 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Known World (Today Show Book Club # 17) by Edward P. Jones ISBN: 0060557540 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Fox's Walk by Annabel Davis-Goff ISBN: 015101020X Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier ISBN: 0525947671 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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