Marie Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel (2008-04-12) - Hardcover

Susan Nagel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747581592 ISBN 13: 9780747581598

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

In January, 1796, Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI arrived in Vienna in the care of her first cousin, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, who had smuggled her out of France after the Reign of Terror. For three years Francis tried to convince Marie-Therese to assert her hereditary rights and allow him to invade the newly vulnerable democracy, but Marie-Therese refused, ultimately fleeing her cousin's Hofburg Palace for Mittau, where her exiled uncle, King Louis XVIII, married her off to his son. At Mittau, Marie-Therese wrote her memoirs, and, upon their publication, immediately became the enduring symbol of the Bourbon Restoration and a figure of fascination around the world. Yet for all of her fame Marie-Therese's later life remains shrouded in mystery. To this day, many believe that the real Marie-Therese, traumatized following her family's sudden execution, was spirited away to Eastern Europe, where she switched identities with a childhood pla

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Nagel is the author of Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, a critically acclaimed biography of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin. A professor in the humanities department of Marymount Manhattan College, she lives in New York.

Review:

'A poignant biography that recreates royalty, terror, tragedy, revolution, and restoration with verve and vividness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A powerful story told with wonderful verve: a triumph' Amanda Foreman PRAISE FOR MISTRESS OF THE ELGIN MARBLES: 'A sympathetic and emotionally charged portrait of Mary ... [written] with insight and compassion yet without sentimentality.' Publishers Weekly 'A unique life related with animation, admiration, and affection but also faithfully and unfancifully.' Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747581592
• ISBN 13: 9780747581598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448