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  • Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars

  • Her Life, Her Times, Her Legacy
  • Written by: Elena Maria Vidal
  • Narrated by: Courtney Shelly
  • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars is about the life, death, and legacy of Louis XVI's tragic queen, based upon the author's 30 years of research. Whenever possible, the historical persons speak for themselves out of memoirs and letters.

Marie-Antoinette is seen in light of her Imperial heritage as a child of the Habsburg dynasty. Having assumed the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in the 1400s, the crown that had originated with Charlemagne in the year 800, they were seen as the continuation of the Roman Empire of the West. The Habsburgs and their allies kept the Muslims from overrunning Europe at both the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and at the battle of Vienna in 1683.

The fall of Marie-Antoinette, as both queen of France and the youngest daughter of the Imperial family, is indicative of the end of Christian civilization and the birth of the secular state, which was the object of the French Revolution. Through her death, Marie-Antoinette has been dubbed “Martyred Queen of Christian Europe” for in killing her, the revolutionaries also symbolically killed all that she represented, the ancient heritage of Christendom.
©2019 Mary-Eileen Russell (P)2019 Mary-Eileen Russell
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A brilliant bit of information

The book was good, it was filled with useful and interesting information. I loved that it had genealogical information as well as biographical information about Marie and the people around her. The narration was alright. it could have been paced better and there were a few times where there were extremely long pauses accompanied by snapping or shuffling paper that was very distracting. It could have been edited better.

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