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Marie-Antoinette


John Hardman


A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen

Named a Book of the Year (2020) by The Spectator


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.

 

John Hardman is one of the world’s leading experts on the French Revolution and the author of several distinguished books on the subject.

Category:  Biography & Memoir, History
ISBN:  9780300260946
Publisher:  Yale University Press
On sale:  October 2021
Format:  Paperback
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