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Marie Antoinette's remarkable life-story continues to arouse mixed feelings. To numerous people, she is still 'la reine mechante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular fighting epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are evenly excited in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny. In such a biography Antonia Fraser examines her effect over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which increased French cultural life, her imprisonment, the fatality threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young child was pressured to testify to sexual misuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.
