Antonia Fraser Livres

Marie-Antoinette : une figure mythique. jugée sévèrement par ses contemporains, et par l'Histoire, perçue tour à tour comme une reine "scélérate", puis une victime expiatoire, elle a pourtant toujours été unanimement admirée pour son inébranlable courage face aux grands cataclysmes du siècle. Devenue reine de France à peine sortie de l'adolescence, elle est investie par sa mère, la puissante impératrice Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, de la mission de protéger les intérêts de son pays auprès du roi. Toute sa vie elle jouera un rôle politique ambigu, s'attirant d'abord la méfiance et bientôt la haine du peuple français. Avec l'objectivité et la précision qui caractérisent toute son œuvre d'historienne, Antonia Fraser retrace le voyage initiatique de la reine. Elle examine, avec un foisonnement de détails, sa personnalité et son parcours : l'enfance, l'influence des liens familiaux, les relations conjugales marquées par un mariage longtemps non consommé, la venue tant attendue de ses enfants, son idylle avec le comte Axel Fersen, ses contacts avec de grandes figures de la Révolution, et enfin ses efforts héroïques pour sauver sa famille, et la monarchie, de la tempête révolutionnaire.

A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.

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What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fraser brings to life the many women she has researched.

Each of Antonia Fraser’s four Jemima Shore mysteries has enlarged the audience for that redoubtable and unpremeditated sleuth. This new one is set against a theatrical background and shows all the narrative skills that have marked the works of its distinguished author along with an ever-increasing quality of suspense. It is the chilling story of Christobel, a beautiful and profligate actress, who thought she could just come back, repent, and resume with impunity the life she had deserted.

The New York Times bestselling history of the legendary six wives of Henry VIII--from the acclaimed author of Marie Antoinette. Under Antonia Fraser's intent scrutiny, Catherine of Aragon emerges as a scholar-queen who steadfastly refused to grant a divorce to her royal husband; Anne Boleyn is absolved of everything but a sharp tongue and an inability to produce a male heir; and Catherine Parr is revealed as a religious reformer with the good sense to tack with the treacherous winds of the Tudor court. And we gain fresh understanding of Jane Seymour's circumspect wisdom, the touching dignity of Anna of Cleves, and the youthful naivete that led to Katherine Howard's fatal indiscretions. The Wives of Henry VIII interweaves passion and power, personality and politics, into a superb work of history.

A portrait of Edward VII in all his as the young Prince of Wales, bon viveur and leader of a fashionable and scandalous set; as husband to Alexandra and father to six; and as a statesman adapting the monarchy to a new role in the Constitution.

No Englishman has made more impact on the history of his nation than Oliver Cromwell; few have been so persistently maligned in the folklore of history. The central purpose of Antonia Fraser's book is the recreation of his life and character, freed from the distortions of myth and Royalist propaganda. Cromwell was a man of contradictions and surprising charm. This decisive and ruthless commander was also a country gentleman and a passionate connoisseur of music. Of Cromwell's fitness for high office, this fascinating biography leaves no doubt. Under his rule English prestige abroad rose to a level unequalled since Elizabeth I, yet his campaign in Ireland has cast a shadow over his reputation. Antonia Fraser displays great insight into this complex man and reveals a totally unexpected Cromwell, far removed from the received stereotype.

A definitive series on the monarchs who changed English history

The story of King Charles II is one of enduring fascination. In this meticulously researched biography Antonia Fraser offers important judgements and reassessments on central questions of the reign, such as his patriotism and religious beliefs.