Audio Book Description:
Imagine that on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antionette leaves behind in her prison cell a diarytelling the story of her life- from her privileged childhood asAustrian Archduchess to her years as glamourous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreakof imprisonment and humiliationduring the French Revolution. Carolly Erickson takes the reader deepinto the psyche of France`s doomedqueen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his lifeto save her; her fears on the terrifying night the Parisian mobbroke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing attempted flight from France in disguise; her recapture and the grimmonths of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotinedand her young son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again.
