Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

by Stefan Zweig · first published 1932

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (German: Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters) is a 1932 biography of the French queen Marie Antoinette by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Viking Press published the first English-language edition, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, in 1933. The book served as the inspiration the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Marie Antoinette starring Norma Shearer, and the Japanese manga series The Rose of Versailles written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda.

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Genre:

Biographical

Original language:

German

Year page:

1932