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To the Scaffold

To the Scaffold

by Carolly Erickson (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $24.64

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    Paperback 2000

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    Hardcover 1998

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Synopsis

One of history's most misunderstood figures, Marie Antoinette represents the extravagance and the decadence of pre-Revolution France. Yet there was an innocence about Antoinette, thrust as a child into the chillingly formal French court.

Married to the maladroit, ill-mannered Dauphin, Antoinette found pleasure in costly entertainments and garments. She spent lavishly while her overtaxed and increasingly hostile subjects blamed her for France's plight. In time Antoinette matured into a courageous Queen, and when their enemies finally closed in, Antoinette followed her inept husband to the guillotine in one last act of bravery.

In To the Scaffold, Carolly Erickson provides an estimation of a lost Queen that is psychologically acute, richly detailed, and deeply moving.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed
 Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
Published: 30 Jul 2004
ISBN 10: 0312322054
ISBN 13: 9780312322052

Media Reviews
Carolly Erickson brings an immediacy and easy intimacy to her study.
- Los Angeles Times Book Review
For lovers of history or lovers of a great romantic story, this book is a must.
- Louisville Courier-Journal

Carolly Erickson brings [an] immediacy and easy intimacy to her study.
- Los Angeles Times Book Review
For lovers of history or lovers of a great romantic story, this book is a must.
- Louisville Courier-Journal

Carolly Erickson brings [an] immediacy and easy intimacy to her study. Los Angeles Times Book Review

For lovers of history or lovers of a great romantic story, this book is a must. Louisville Courier-Journal


Carolly Erickson brings [an] immediacy and easy intimacy to her study. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

For lovers of history or lovers of a great romantic story, this book is a must. --Louisville Courier-Journal

Author Bio

Distinguished historian Carolly Erickson is the author of Rival to the Queen, The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots, The First Elizabeth, The Hidden Life of Josephine, The Last Wife of Henry VIII, and many other prize-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Tsarina's Daughter won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Historical Fiction. She lives in Hawaii.