It appears that I'm not the only one who's interest in Marie Antoinette has been piqued.
Marie Antoinette is back in vogue. A two-hour Public Broadcasting Service documentary on the last queen of France will be broadcast September 25, followed by the premiere of Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette on October 20. There has been a remarkable spate of books on this subject: two works of historical fiction last year's The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette, by Carolly Erickson (St. Martin's Press), and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette, by Sena Jeter Naslund (forthcoming from William Morrow in October) plus a scholarly study, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, by Caroline Weber, a professor of French at Barnard College (Henry Holt, due out this month).
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