About the book: 2014 / Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), Queen of France, guillotined by the revolutionary French people. Known for her love of dress and the frivolous statement “If the people have no bread, let them eat cake,” she at different times aroused either hatred or irrepressible praise. In this book, the author, without condemning or praising his heroine, shows her not from the standpoint of political history, but in the context of the everyday life around her, as her contemporaries saw her - those who loved her and those who tried to use or destroy her . Marie Antoinette is, first of all, a woman, she lives and loves without thinking about the inexorable pace of History, but in times of trial she shows truly royal greatness and fortitude.