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Marie Antoinette: Fashionable Queen or Greedy Royal?
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Explore the controversial life of Marie Antoinette. Engaging yet authoritative text and historically accurate images bring the biography of this divisive but captivating queen to life. Infographics, sidebars, and fact boxes help add to readers' understanding of Marie Antoinette and the time in which she lived.
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