Queen of France, A Biography of Marie Antoinette - Softcover

This is the biography of one of the most tragic women in History. It is the story of a frivolous young girl who threw wild parties and spent a lot of her husband's money and for that reason, and that reason alone, she had her head chopped off in public. The back cover photo here shows Marie Antoinette being given her last rights by a clergyman as she was waiting before the guillotine for the executioners to cut off her head, and while a crowd of thousands watched. Her last words were one of apology to one of her executioners, when she accidentally stepped on his foot. All of the events of the Life of Marie Antoinette are brilliantly explained in this biography by André Castelot. The most haunting and harrowing pages of the biography are Castelot's darkly etched picture of the Queen in the culminating moments of her life. Perhaps it is not in the least a paradox that one of the most arrantly self-indulgent women should, in her adversity, provide one of the most memorable images of mother love.

André Castelot was born André Storms on 23 January 1911 in Antwerp, Belgium. He died on 18 July 2004 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France. He was a French writer and historian. André Castelot wrote 65 biographies, among the best known of which are this biography of Josephine and his biography of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.