Publisher's Synopsis
Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna in 1755, the daughter of the Austrian Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa. In May 1770 she married, when she was fourteen, Louis XVI of France. Once again Stefan Zweig's skill for portraiture and his fine understanding of the human soul come together to draw an extraordinary picture of the most famous victim of the guillotine: her stormy arrival at Versailles, her frustration at the coldness of her husband, her passionate romance with Count Von Fersen and, finally, the chaos and terror that the revolution brought with it.
