Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey is a sympathetic 2001 biography of Marie Antoinette,the Queen of France (1774 - 1792) by Lady Antonia Fraser. It is the basis for the 2006 Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette. It has also been translated into French, been awarded the Enid McLeod Literary Prize, received widespread critical success and been described as "definitive" by British historian, Amanda Foreman, author of a bestselling biography of Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, another influential 18th-century woman. It is considered, by some modern historians, as the most thorough and balanced biography of the queen, though it naturally builds upon earlier biographies, first hand accounts, and even the infamous libelles which destroyed the queen's reputation.
First editions
- London: Wedenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. ISBN 0-297-81908-9
- New York: Doubleday, 2001. ISBN 0-385-48948-X
Paperback edition
- London: Orion Publishing Group, 2006. ISBN 0-753-82140-0 (10). ISBN 978-075-382140-4 (13).
