The bad queen

By Carolyn Meyer

Subjects: History, Courts and courtiers, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Marie antoinette, queen, consort of louis xvi, king of france, 1755-1793, fiction, Fiction, Courts and courtiers, Kings, queens, rulers, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, fiction, Children's fiction, Louis XVI, 1774-1793, Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction

Description: In eighteenth-century France, Marie-Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she finds diversion in spending money on clothing, parties, and gambling despite her family's warnings and the whispers of courtiers.