Marie Antoinette : Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters

Marie Antoinette would probably have remained an average noblewoman at the court of Versailles for the rest of her life, according to Stefan Zweig: ‘She would have danced, chatted, loved, laughed, dressed up, paid visits and given alms’ - had world history not got in her way. Because during the French Revolution, the wife of King Louis XVI became the object of hatred par excellence for the citizens. Her peculiar path from the boudoir to the guillotine was ideal material for the incomparably clever and stylistically brilliant biographer Stefan Zweig.