Hardcover Marie-Thrse: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter Book

ISBN: 0747581592

ISBN13: 9780747581598

Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

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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 regime. Nagel brings the formidable Marie-Therese 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 and Amanda Foreman's Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. In December 1795, at midnight on her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Therese, 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-Therese, 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. Was the real Marie-Therese spirited away to a remote castle to live her life as the woman called "the Dark Countess," while an imposter played her role on the political stage of Europe? Now, two hundred years later, using handwriting samples, DNA testing, and an undiscovered cache of Bourbon family letters, Nagel finally solves this mystery. She tells the remarkable story in full and draws a vivid portrait of an astonishing woman who both defined and shaped an era. Marie-Therese's deliberate choice of husbands determined the map of nineteenth-century Europe. Even Napoleon was in awe and called her "the only man in the family." Nagel's gripping narrative captures the events of her fascinating life from her very public birth in front of the rowdy crowds and her precocious childhood to her hideous time in prison and her later reincarnation in the public eye as a saint, and, above all, her fierce loyalty to France throughout. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0747581592

ISBN13:9780747581598

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Bloomsbury UK

Length:418 Pages

Weight:1.85 lbs.

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Rated 5 stars
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 21, 2008

I loved this book. I have always wondered what happened to Marie Antoinette's daughter, and this really gives you a wonderfully detailed account of her life, and her feelings. Loved it.

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An enjoyable read

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 15, 2008

"Marie-Thérèse: Child of Terror" by Susan Nagel is a greatly anticipated biography which provides an overview of the turbulent life of the courageous daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Rare anecdotes and little-known incidents are pulled together into one volume to make for a consuming read. I would especially recommend it to the readers of the novel Madame Royale since it fills in many gaps which the novel, being...

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Outstanding Achievement

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 1, 2008

Out of the depths of time a life is reborn in the modern world. One very rarely heard anything about Marie-Therese before. A few lines here and there, a portrait in a book on her mother, etc. Nothing much about Marie's life. From the first page to the very end - you become part of the world of Marie-Therese. The author has a very easy flowing unique style that draws you in and hooks you - I really felt as if I had known...

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Gripping Tale of a new Heroine

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 24, 2008

What a feat! My heart was racing from chapter to chapter, and I absolutely fell in love with Marie-Therese. Her world is drawn here with the forensic care of an Edith Wharton character. Nagel's obsessive research and beautifully detailed writing show Marie-Therese as a strong and credible survivor of the swing from Versailles luxury to tower imprisonment to fading and irrelevant royalty. Who needs pictures? Nagel so strongly...

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The story of the valiant princess

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 23, 2008

In the last decade or so, there seems to be have been an explosion of nonfiction books about the French monarchy, with a special emphasis on Marie-Antoinette. But with all of this focus on Marie-Antoinette, there was one glaring omission that really struck me. Namely, no one was really talking about the one surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette -- their eldest daughter, Marie-Therese-Charlotte, Madame Royale. ...

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