Flaunting Extravagant Queen (Audible Audio Edition) Jean Plaidy Jilly Bond Isis Publishing Ltd Books
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At the age of 15, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles.
Frivolous and reckless, she flouts the strict and demanding etiquette of the glittering court and discovers the true nature of love, hate and jealousy. But the clouds of revolution are overhead, and Marie Antoinette, who wishes only to enjoy life, learns too late that the price of her enjoyment is very high...
Flaunting Extravagant Queen (Audible Audio Edition) Jean Plaidy Jilly Bond Isis Publishing Ltd Books
Jean Plaidy should be famous. She's a fantastic writer. I've read 72 of her books so far. Yes, I am counting and blogging about it - http://bit.ly/18svseH .It's not high brow literature but it's not trash either. It's probably on a high school reading level. As a middle aged urbanite with a graduate degree who reads The New Yorker, i thoroughly enjoyed it. It's gossip-y and drama-packed. A page turner. It kept me up all night 2 nights in a row - it messed with my sleeping schedule - because I could not stop reading it.
I confess that I never studied the french revolution in school. This book and the 2 before it in Plaidy's FR series have sparked my interest in it and I am doing some self-education on it.
Vive la France!
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Flaunting Extravagant Queen (Audible Audio Edition) Jean Plaidy Jilly Bond Isis Publishing Ltd Books Reviews
I enjoyed the novel very much but as a French speaker I found some of the French extremely grating. For instance, Jean Plaidy refers to Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Henri IV as Louis Quatorze, Louis Quinze and Henri Quatre. I made me wince every time I saw this. In the same way, Louis the Well-Beloved is Louis LE Bien-Aimé, not Louis Bien-Aîmé, and Louis XV's sisters were called Mesdames, not "les Mesdames" which makes no sense in French. I could go on and on. It is a shame because the novel is excellent, but it rather spoilt it for me. Non French speakers will probably not be disturbed and enjoy the book.
I read this book while still a student of Advanced Level European History. I swear I learnt more European History in this and other similar titles, than I did in the class room. The novels were exciting, factual and more engaging than any history class. Thank you Ms Plaidy for keeping the fires of interest burning.
This historical novel about Marie Antoinette is very enjoyable. I picked up the book being interested in Marie Antoinette and looking to find out more about her life. The book follows her from the time her wedding to Louis XVI is announced to her death. It is well written with a good pace. It shows well the different sides of her personality and how while she was obviously disconnected from the reality, at the end of her life she remained a humble yet proud person.
I recommend this book to anyone wanting to familiarize themselves with the life of Marie Antoinette and who look for a historically acurate yet enterntaining account of her life.
Poor Marie Antoinette! She was the wrong person in the wrong place in the wrong time. She grew up in the virtuous court of the Hapsburgs and married into that of scandalous France. There, she found a shy husband, admirers, but mostly enemies. Eventually, the King died, and she and Louis became rulers of France. The people were ready to admire the new king and queen, especially when the new rulers declared France would be great. Fueled by power hungry men and women, the people's love soon turned to hate as the people' became poorer and the aristocracy followed Marie Antoinette's lead and became more extravagant. She didn't understand how her foolishness would lead to downfall until it was too late. Things spiraled out of control, and before they knew it, the royal family was prisoners in the hands of their own subjects. And everyone knows the fate of Marie Antoinette after this the guillotine.
While I was reading this book, I was impatient to finish it, because I wanted to read another one. Even under these circumstances, Jean Plaidy's work never ceased to lose its richness. She is a great author, even to the impatient reader.
A great little read - and one more reason British authoress Eleanor Hibbert (writing here as Jean Plaidy) sold over 100 million books in 20 languages.
Good book!
Jean Plaidy never disappoints me! Her books helped me out so much with my GRE because she used so many of the words listed on my study sheet in her books. She helped me put the words in context and expand my vocabulary. And, because of her wonderful writing, I got a glimpse of a young Marie Antoinette - vulnerable, beautiful, but doomed by her own lack of formal education and assimilation into the ways of the French Court.
Jean Plaidy should be famous. She's a fantastic writer. I've read 72 of her books so far. Yes, I am counting and blogging about it - http//bit.ly/18svseH .
It's not high brow literature but it's not trash either. It's probably on a high school reading level. As a middle aged urbanite with a graduate degree who reads The New Yorker, i thoroughly enjoyed it. It's gossip-y and drama-packed. A page turner. It kept me up all night 2 nights in a row - it messed with my sleeping schedule - because I could not stop reading it.
I confess that I never studied the french revolution in school. This book and the 2 before it in Plaidy's FR series have sparked my interest in it and I am doing some self-education on it.
Vive la France!
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