TY - BOOK ID - 78708680 TI - Marie-Antoinette PY - 2019 SN - 9780300243086 0300243081 0300249039 9780300249033 PB - New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press DB - UniCat KW - Queens KW - Marie Antoinette, KW - Marii︠a︡ Antonii︠a︡ Avstriĭskai︠a︡, KW - María Antonia, KW - France KW - History KW - Marie-Antoinette [Queen of France] KW - Maria Antonietta, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78708680 AB - A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen. Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on Marie-Antoinette's story. Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how, from the outset, Marie-Antoinette refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, Maria-Theresa, bravely took over the helm from Louis XVI after the collapse of his morale, and, when revolution broke out, listened to the Third Estate and worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it. ER -