the most obvious resource

[trystbat]

Because you really must start with this if you are interested in Marie-Antoinette & especially if Coppola's movie left you scratching your head a little. Pick up Antonia Fraser's biography of the queen, Marie-Antoinette: The Journey (yes, there's even a cute paperback version with Kirsten Dunst on the cover -- or check eBay for earlier editions

Comments

fraser's book

[christineu]

I generally liked this book, but I read it as part of my research for a project on one of Marie-Antoinette's portraitists, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, and I found some inaccuracies in the book regarding this person and her circle. So it made me suspect the other facts, though I think the main ones are correct