Does /lit/ have any historically accurate and fair and balanced

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2016-06-09 23:34:56 Post No. 8145521
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Anonymous 2016-06-09 23:34:56 Post No. 8145521 [Report]

Does /lit/ have any historically accurate and fair and balanced objective yet interesting reads on Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution?

I would like a book that takes an intimate look into her life and separates fact from fiction, such as the alleged "Let them eat cake" phrase, which I learned that there is actually little evidence to support her ever having said that. It would be nice to read about her life and her psyche with the backdrop of the French Revolution.

Any books /lit/ would recommend for a francophile interested in French history, Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution?

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Anonymous 2016-06-09 23:56:26 Post No.8145589
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Anonymous 2016-06-09 23:56:26 Post No.8145589 [Report]

I believe Antonia Frasier has written what you're looking for.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 03:17:23 Post No.8146160
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 03:17:23 Post No.8146160 [Report]

Robert Darnton - The Great Cat Massacre

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 04:08:15 Post No.8146316
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 04:08:15 Post No.8146316 [Report]

Rose of Versailles

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 07:59:13 Post No.8146825
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 07:59:13 Post No.8146825 [Report]

>>8145521
I always felt Marie Antoinette was wrongly vilified by the people of her time and is still too harshly treated by historians.

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 09:06:00 Post No.8146956
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>>8145521
Why did the French people put Marie Antoinette under the sharp blade of the guillotine?

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 09:10:31 Post No.8146963
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>>8146956
>Why did the French people put Marie Antoinette under the sharp blade of the guillotine?

To scrape the barnacles off her hull?

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 09:13:57 Post No.8146967
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 09:13:57 Post No.8146967 [Report]

The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 09:34:51 Post No.8147004
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 10:51:40 Post No.8147085
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 10:51:40 Post No.8147085 [Report]

>>8146963
>>8146956
Wait what? Barnacles? Marie Antoinettte's Hull? Did she spend a lot of time at sea or something... I don't get it?

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Anonymous 2016-06-10 11:08:06 Post No.8147104
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Anonymous 2016-06-10 11:08:06 Post No.8147104 [Report]

Soboul.