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Nancy Lotz
Lotz's look at Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution serves as a passable biography, but I think there are better works out there for teenage readers.
One of the troubles that I had with this book was the strange editing and lack of thorough writing.
The author seemed to skip around from topic to topic with little transition, elaborate on some events and skim over others, and the result is a very choppy book.
For example, they spent several pages describing Maria Theresa and the engagement of Maria Antonia, . . but only took two paragraphs to describe the planning of the royal family's escape from the Tuileries, the actual flight, and return to Paris.
If this book is about the decline of the French monarchy, shouldn't the focus be on the actions that contributed to that decline
The book,
according to Amazon, is for grades, but the author doesn't acknowledge when something is her own opinion, and doesn't elaborate on many important terms and events.
A student would be better off reading one of the sources she lists in the back, I really enjoyed this simple book, It was short with large print and lots of amazing color pictures, The history was arguably accurate, A very easy to read biography! Great for both pleasure and informative reading and would be a great resource for students doing a research paper on Marie Antoinette.
Of all the daughters of the formidable Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Archduchess Maria Antonia was the least prepared to become queen of France.
Sweet and kind, she did not like school and showed no interest in politics, Nevertheless, at age fourteen she was sent to the opulent palace at Versailles, outside Paris, to marry the future King Louis XVI.
Marie Antoinette's new husband, intelligent but shy and indecisive, was not a strong king, His days were filled with hunting, and hers with games and socializing, Neither seemed aware of the tension building in France because of high taxes, scarce food, and political injustice, The queen's spending habits and foreign birth caused the people of France to turn their anger on her, When the French Revolution erupted in, Louis was unable to maintain control, He was arrested, imprisoned, then beheaded Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine nine months later,
One of the troubles that I had with this book was the strange editing and lack of thorough writing.
The author seemed to skip around from topic to topic with little transition, elaborate on some events and skim over others, and the result is a very choppy book.
For example, they spent several pages describing Maria Theresa and the engagement of Maria Antonia, . . but only took two paragraphs to describe the planning of the royal family's escape from the Tuileries, the actual flight, and return to Paris.
If this book is about the decline of the French monarchy, shouldn't the focus be on the actions that contributed to that decline
The book,
according to Amazon, is for grades, but the author doesn't acknowledge when something is her own opinion, and doesn't elaborate on many important terms and events.
A student would be better off reading one of the sources she lists in the back, I really enjoyed this simple book, It was short with large print and lots of amazing color pictures, The history was arguably accurate, A very easy to read biography! Great for both pleasure and informative reading and would be a great resource for students doing a research paper on Marie Antoinette.
Of all the daughters of the formidable Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Archduchess Maria Antonia was the least prepared to become queen of France.
Sweet and kind, she did not like school and showed no interest in politics, Nevertheless, at age fourteen she was sent to the opulent palace at Versailles, outside Paris, to marry the future King Louis XVI.
Marie Antoinette's new husband, intelligent but shy and indecisive, was not a strong king, His days were filled with hunting, and hers with games and socializing, Neither seemed aware of the tension building in France because of high taxes, scarce food, and political injustice, The queen's spending habits and foreign birth caused the people of France to turn their anger on her, When the French Revolution erupted in, Louis was unable to maintain control, He was arrested, imprisoned, then beheaded Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine nine months later,
Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy brings to life the tragic story of the lovely but naive queen who paid with her life for the mistakes of the entire ruling class
.