Marie Antoinette
by Evelyne Lever | 
Madame de Pompadour
by Nancy Mitford | 
Marie Antoinette
by Antonia Fraser |
Madame de Pompadour
by Evelyne Lever | 
Madame de Pompadour
by Christine Pevitt Algrant | 
The Black Count
by Tom Reiss | 
Joseph Fouche
by Stefan Zweig | 
Napoleon
by Andrew Roberts | 
To the Scaffold
by Carolly Erickson |
Josephine
by Carolly Erickson | 
The Rose of Martinique
by Andrea Stuart | 
Napoleon
by Paul Johnson | 
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
by Stefan Zweig |
Perdita
by Paula Byrne |
Ambition and Desire
by Kate Williams | 
Mistress to an Age
by J. Christopher Herold |
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans
by Brian Kilmeade | 
Victoria
by Julia Baird | 
Georgiana
by Amanda Foreman | 
Jane Austen at Home
by Lucy Worsley |
Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim, from the time when as a fourteen-year-old she took Versailles by storm, to her frustrations with her aloof husband, her passionate love affair with the Swedish Count von Fersen, and ultimately to the chaos of the French Revolution and the savagery of the Terror. An impassioned narrative, Zweig's biography focuses on the human emotions of the participants and victims of the French Revolution, making it both an engrossingly compelling read and a sweeping and informative history. "Certainly no one can arise unmoved from the reading of this powerful work." -- The New Republic "Excellent biography." -- The New York Times