There have been many books written about Marie Antoinette and this period in French history. In fact, the biggest reason for France’s empty coffers during her husband’s reign was the enormous amount of money spent on military aid to the American colonists during our revolution. Always perceived as the outsider, Marie Antoinette was blamed for everything from bad harvests and crop failure to the national deficit when France’s treasury was already bankrupted by Louis XV’s government by the time Marie Antoinette arrived. Up until about 15 years before their marriage, their respective countries had been enemies for 950 years. In essence, they became scapegoats for all the ills in France. I researched the lives of Marie Antoinette and her husband Louis Auguste, the dauphin of France for a nonfiction book and the more I learned about the pair of them the more I realized how maligned they were. What is it about Marie Antoinette that brought you to her story?
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