Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen | John Hardman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen Author: John Hardman Narrator: Jonathan Cowley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 29, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.93 of Total 15 Ratings of Narrator: 1.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously 'out of touch' queen Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how, from the outset, Marie-Antoinette refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, Maria-Theresa, bravely took over the helm from Louis XVI after the collapse of his morale, and, when revolution broke out, listened to the Third Estate and worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it.