Hot Topics is featuring books on Marie Antoinette, the French Revolution, and Versailles.  If you’ve seen Sophia Coppola’s new film Marie Antoinette learn more about the tragic French queen, the court life at the royal palace, the history of the fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the First Republic, and the murder of the Royal Family, check out these titles from the library’s collection:

 
November 2006

 

Bernier, Olivier.  Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood: The Mob, The Monarchy, and the French Revolution.  DC138 B42 1989

Burke, Edmund.  Reflections on the Revolution in France.  DC150 B8 2003

Carlyle, Thomas.  The French Revolution: A History.  DC161 C3 2002

Cobb, Richard.  Voices from the French Revolution.  DC162 V65 1988

Cole, Robert.  A Traveller’s History of France.  DC55 C67 2005

Cronin, Vincent.  Louis and Antoinette.  DC137 C76 1975

DeJean, Joan.  The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour.  DC128 D454 2005

Erickson, Carolly.  To The Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette. DC137.1 E77 1991 

Doyle, William.  The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction.  DC148 D688 2001

Doyle, William.  The Origins of the French Revolution.  DC147.8 D69 1988

Doyle, William.  The Oxford History of the French Revolution.  DC148 D69 1990

Fraser, Antonia.  Marie Antoinette: The Journey.  DC137.1 F73 2001

Frey, Linda.  The French Revolution.  DC148 F728 2004

Haine, W. Scott.  The History of France.  DC35 H35 2000

Hardman, John.  Louis XVI.  DC137 H37 1993

Haslip, Joan.  Marie Antoinette.  DC137.1 H37 1988

Hibbert, Christopher.  The Days of the French Revolution.  DC161 H5

Hibbert, Christopher.  Versailles.  DC801 V56 H45

Jones, Colin.  The Great Nation: France From Louis XV to Napoleon.  DC131 J66 2002b

Lefebvre, Georges.  The Coming of the French Revolution.  DC138 L413 1988

Lever, Evelyne.  Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France.  DC137.1 L4813 2000

Loomis, Stanley.  Paris in the Terror.  DC183 L6

Richard, Pascal.  Versailles, The American Story.  DC59.8 U6 R53x 1999

Schama, Simon.  Citizen: A Chronicle of the French Revolution.  DC148 S43 1989

Sully, Vincent.  French Royal Gardens: The Designs of Andre Le Notre.  SB470 L4 B38 1992

Thompson, JM.  Robespierre and the French Revolution.  DC161 T475

Woodbridge, John D.  Revolt in Prerevolutionary France: Prince de Conti’s Conspiracy Against Louis XV.  DC135 C58 W66 1995
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