cover image To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette

To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson. William Morrow & Company, $14 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-688-11611-8

In this smoothly written biography, Erickson contends that Marie Antoinette had only one extramarital love, and depicts her as courageous and dignified at her execution. (June)