Marie Antoinette

According to Stefan Zweig, Marie Antoinette, if world history hadn’t gotten in the way, would probably have remained an ordinary court lady at the Palace of Versailles all her life: "She would have danced, chatted, loved, laughed, made visits, and given alms." As it is known, her marriage to King Louis XVI made the young Austrian archduchess not only the queen of France, but also the object of universal envy and hatred. So what ultimately destroyed Marie Antoinette— the aristocracy’s cruelty, the uproar of the dissenters, or her own frivolousness? In his book, Stefan Zweig tries to find answers to these questions, tracing Marie Antoinette’s path from the boudoir to the guillotine.

In Russian, "Marie Antoinette" was first published in Riga in 1933, in the author’s edited version with minor abridgements, translated by V. Zлатогорский, with a print run of 700 copies.

This audiobook was recorded specifically based on that first edition.