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Title: History as a soap opera
Review: A biography which hides, behind an overwhelming amount of details, a disarming lack of substance. Nothing more than a historical soap opera. From Antonia Fraser, author of an exemplary "Mary Stuart", it is legit to demand much more.It is singular that two of the best queen's biographies of the post Zweig and Castelot era were never translated into English: the moving "Chère Marie-Antoinette" (1988) by Jean Chalon and the unreachable "Marie-Antoinette l'insoumise" (2002) by Simone Bertière, maybe the best work on Marie Antoinette I've ever read. Whoever knows French should not miss these books. I also signal the recent French DVD release of the movie "L'Autrichienne" (1989), written by the specialist Castelot, based entirely on the proceedings' minutes of the trial of the queen: a stunning piece of work with an absolutely superb Ute Lemper as Marie Antoinette.
