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Marie Antoinette
Ebook656 pages22 hours
By Stefan Zweig, Cedar Paul and Eden Paul
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Bringing to life one of the most complex characters in European history
Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune and history. Zweig describes Marie Antoinette in the King's bedroom, in the enchanted and extravagant world of the Trianon, and with her children. And in his account of 'The Revolution', he describes her resolve during the failed escape to varennes, her imprisonment in the Conciergerie and her final tragic destiny under the guillotine. Zweig's account has been the definitive biography of Marie Antoinette since its publication, inspiring Antonia Frase
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Molly Shannon, Madame de Victoire: I was pregnant with my son and my agent called, saying, “Sofia Coppola wants you to be in some movie but it’s in Paris so we said you’re not available.” I was like, “Wait, you did what?” inom told my ob-gyn, “Look, there’s this movie I’m dying to do but I’d have to be in Paris…” and she said, “When do you need to be there? I’ll induce you, we’ll make this happen.” Now that Sofia has kids she always says, “I cannot believe you told your doctor to push the baby out so you could do my movie.”
Dunst: Getting to work with Molly was such a huge deal to me because I was the biggest SNL fan in the world. Sofia is so good at casting people who work well off of each other. The cast was her reimagining of what the court would look and feel like at that time – there’s the funny one, that one’s the gossip, she’s the mean girl. It was like high school at Versailles.
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