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By Chantal Thomas, Julie Rose (Translator)

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The Wicked Queen is not a biography of one of the most infamous queens in history. Rather, Chantal Thomas presents the history of the verbal and visual representations of Marie-Antoinette, the history of her mythification. Almost as soon as Marie-Antoinette, archduchess of Austria, was brought to France in 1771 as the bride of Louis XVI, she was smothered in images.

In a monarchy increasingly under assault, the charm and horror of her feminine body and her destructive political power as a fo...

The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette

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