Project Gutenberg 2022-12-14 Public domain in the USA. 335 Belloc, Hilaire 1870 1953 Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, H. Marie Antoinette $aUnited Kingdom :$bMethuen & Co.,$c1909,pubdate 1910. MWS, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Marie Antoinette" by Hilaire Belloc is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the life of Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, during a tumultuous period marked by the approaching French Revolution. It delves into her upbringing, the impact of political machinations on her life, and the influences that ultimately led to her tragic fate as queen. The opening of the work sets the stage for understanding the complex world in which Marie Antoinette lived, beginning with the backdrop of the 18th-century Diplomatic Revolution, which profoundly affected her life. It emphasizes her role as a pawn in the political strategies of her family and others, detailing how her marriage was part of a larger political alliance designed by her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. The text highlights Marie Antoinette's early life, the pressures of her royal duties, and the sense of doom that surrounded her existence, as events unfolded that would lead to her untimely end. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/marieantoinette00bell 20200512044604belloc 1909 GB Reading ease score: 60.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 Queens -- France -- Biography DC Text Category: Biographies Category: History - European Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: History - Royalty 1214277 2025-06-27T11:30:48.820004 text/html 1173745 2024-10-19T02:41:15 text/html 8845469 2025-06-27T11:31:04.721919 application/epub+zip 8849234 2025-06-27T11:30:52.003032 application/epub+zip 561444 2025-06-27T11:30:50.393988 application/epub+zip 9117558 2025-06-27T11:31:13.845928 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 9036325 2025-06-27T11:31:03.002989 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1059901 2025-06-27T11:30:46.935064 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1039954 2024-10-19T02:41:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16499 2025-06-27T11:31:14.011897 application/rdf+xml 6603 2025-06-27T11:30:50.555005 image/jpeg 1314 2025-06-27T11:30:50.477002 image/jpeg 8861642 2025-06-27T11:30:49.033004 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia