Once you begin this book, the intimate details of Marie Antoinette and the court of Versailles start to spill. Each page is filled with a story, a small gem of court intrigues. You will read about posh events held in private apartments, the pay scale, Madame du Barry's favorite servant and even unme[...]
In one of the earliest memoirs of the young Queen of France, Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan--Marie Antoinette's First Lady-in-Waiting and one of her closest and most faithful attendants--paints a dramatic portrait of the queen's personal and political relationship with King Louis XVI of France. Firs[...]