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Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769 (2000)

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Marie Antoinette Princess of Versailles By Kathryn LaskyMarie Antoinette princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky is a really fascinating.This book is real diary entries of Marie Antoinette. But in her entries she tells the life of an Austrian princess is not all fun and games.” I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn... I have become what Mama set out for me to be. Majestic. A Dauphine and eventually a Queen."(Lasky 81)This was written by marie antoinette when she was 13 on October 23, 1769.And when she looked into the mirror she doesn’t see the herself as she wished she would see herself she sees herself as what her mother the queen of Austria molded her into.My opinion of this book is that is it show things in a new perspective to what we have always known.Like children have always thought that princess had to wear pink, had to wear floaty dresses, and they were always beautiful.So not true this show princess in a new light.”Also known as Marie Antoinette, also as Antonia, she was loaded into a cart used for common criminals.She was driven through jeering mobs to a scaffold where the guillotine awaited her.”(Lasky 210)Now this what life was and what did happen to her and her husband.Royal life is not always what we think is or what it is in books this was real and no one could stop it.I would rate this book a 5 stars out of 5 stars.Because it is very composed and it shows that what you do with what you have can sometimes backfire on you and you may end up with your head on the guillotine.Life in this time was not butterflies and flowers it was a time of war and a time of death and no one not even the king of France saw the chaos.

When my mother told me people used to urinate on the floors of Versailles, I laughed at her and chaulked it up to either hyperbole or myth. Sure, Europeans weren’t the cleanest bunch back then, but to relieve oneself indoors on those magnificent palace floors? That’s crossing the line between truth and fiction, right?Wrong.For all of their protocol, manners and customs, the French nobility apparently acted like dogs who have not been properly house trained. Enter Marie Antoinette, an Austrian princess who has been married off to Louis XVI, the Dauphin of France. Can you see why she rebelled against their ridiculous customs? I knew a little bit about the customs of the French court before reading this, but learning the extent of their stupidity was shocking. You learn something new every day, I guess, especially when you read historical fiction like this.Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles is written for ages 10-12 and focuses mainly on Marie Antoinette’s life before her marriage. We get a little bit of her life after marriage, but most of the novel focuses on the time before she became Dauphine. This is not exactly my favourite book in the Royal Diaries series because of its incredibly simplistic style (especially at the beginning), but young readers will love it. They will be able to identify with Marie Antoinette, enjoy a well-written book and learn quite a bit of history without even realizing it. What more can you ask for in historical fiction?I give this book 3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars for Goodreads rating purposes.

What do You think about Marie Antoinette: Princess Of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769 (2000)?

This instalment of The Royal Diaries is definitely one of my all time favourites alongside Anastasia and Kristina. I have noticed that the reality of Marie Antoinette is not perceived in this diary recount of her life and it does not display Marie Antoinette as the selfish, ignorant and oblivious woman she was alongside her husband and The Court of Versailles. But rather it displays her in a much more positive light and shows her as a loving, considerate young woman who was really just pushed into everything she ever did. I found this a lovely novel to read, although as a child I could never really quite grasp the language and concept of the novel completely, and it took awhile for me to finish. Now though I had finished the book within two days and thoroughly enjoyed reading it overall. This novel is definitely one that needs to be re read at least two to three times to fully get the whole ideal of the book. I must admit though, this diary account has inspired me to read into more about Marie Antoinette and sympathise with her throughout everything she did. She has become a very respectful woman to me and it all stems from this book.
—Emmah

I really, really enjoyed this book about Marie Antoinette! I’ve always been a little fascinated with Marie Antoinette, she has a rather interesting life story … and of course, tragic as well. I’ve never been of the mindset that Marie Antoinette was an ignorant, frivolous queen who didn’t care for her subjects and peasants much, and I’m glad this book stresses the naivety of Marie Antoinette and how her upbringing shaped her. After all, being the 15th child, not many people would have expected such a grand future for her.In this book, we only see Marie Antoinette as a preteen, which includes the time before she married her husband, and just a little bit of the time after. This book tells the story of the relationship between Marie Antoinette and her mother, her experience going from the Austrian court to the French court and her rivalry with Madame du Barry (Marie Antoinette’s father-in-law’s mistress). I think this book is definitely one of the best in this series. I think it has one of the more exciting or interesting plots in the series, especially the rivalry part, and it had an ending that left you thinking, “Wow, Marie Antoinette is going to make an amazing Queen!” Of course, in reality, her people did not really think so, but it’s a good way to end the book!Apologies for the short review! It’s a short(ish) children’s book, and I liked it a lot, nothing to complain about here! If you want to venture into the Royal Diaries series, I highly recommend this one to start with (or Cleopatra or Anastasia, these three being my favourites).
—Jinny (Lost-At-Sea Book Reviews)

This book was all about court life and i loved antonia. The past or the real history is a dark one. Antonia when she finally is married of to france she is shocked that her husband is nothing like in the pictures. he is a big fat oaf with dirty nails. But he seems to make a good friend to antonia. In france she has a rival called du barry, actually du barry hates her and antonia hates her too. in the end du barry has to realize that the future queen of france is to be antonia. well according to history......antonia and her husband had been executed. They were fine people but they were young so hence couldn't make capable rulers. It is said that during there time when the most important desicion that they made was which dress to wear today, while people where starving on the streets.
—Tendril Zam

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