Queen's Confession

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Summary: Confessions on the Queen
Review: "It is the tale, not he who tells it." Whoever said this has been forgotten in the age of "the medium is the message." The truth is, the tragic story of the doomed queen who loved diamonds and beautiful clothes more than her subjects will outlive the attempts of the most hamfisted biographer. I found a copy of *The Queen's Confession* by Victoria Holt on my mother's bookshelf long before I learned about the absolutist monarchy of Louis IV or his spoiled granddaughter-in-law, the daughter of the Empress of Austria-Hungary. This in no way lessened my enjoyment. Marie Antoinette, the queen who was never meant to be, needs no fictional embellishment or historical elaboration to make her tale palatatable. You don't need to read *Julius Caesar* to appreciate the tragedy of a lively, pretty but none too bright girl forced to answer for the suffering of generations. The fact that a France in agony chose her as one scapegoat is almost excused by the chance we are given to consider her now, without prejudice, as a pivot of history. And no, she never said "let them eat cake." Judge at your own peril.

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Summary: A Wonderful Book
Review: I have read many books about Marie-Antoinette, but none of them was as exciting and captivanting as this one. It tells the story through the queen's own words and that helps us understand her even better.

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Summary: One of Plaidy's best
Review: I prefer Jean Plaidy's books to those written under the name of Victoria Holt, mainly because I have an insane passion for historical fiction. In all of her "I" novels written from the point of view of a Queen, the reader actually becomes that woman's confidante and you feel that you really know her. It's an extraordinary gift for a writer to make someone feel so at home with an aloof historical character.

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Summary: One of Plaidy's best
Review: I prefer Jean Plaidy's books to those written under the name of Victoria Holt, mainly because I have an insane passion for historical fiction. In all of her "I" novels written from the point of view of a Queen, the reader actually becomes that woman's confidante and you feel that you really know her. It's an extraordinary gift for a writer to make someone feel so at home with an aloof historical character.

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Summary: Memorable - one of my favorite books of all time!
Review: I read this book in 1973!? It was so wonderful that I planned my trip to Paris around Marie Antoinette's homes - the Grand and Petit Trianon at Versailles for one stop. The author writes historical fiction so beautifully that you can't help wishing to run to Europe and experience the lives of the queens you've read about!! I'll never orget this book - and others by Victoria Holt!

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Summary: Memorable - one of my favorite books of all time!
Review: I read this book in 1973!? It was so wonderful that I planned my trip to Paris around Marie Antoinette's homes - the Grand and Petit Trianon at Versailles for one stop. The author writes historical fiction so beautifully that you can't help wishing to run to Europe and experience the lives of the queens you've read about!! I'll never orget this book - and others by Victoria Holt!

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Summary: The book that gave me my love of reading.
Review: I read this book many years ago, when I was 13. At the time I was into much younger books for younger readers, but my college aged sister introduced me to this one - and I was totally hooked. A love of historical fiction and gothic romance followed, and I read all of Victoria Holt's novels. There was no end in sight after that, and today, 27 years later, I often wonder where I would be without Victoria Holt. I recommend this book to all young adults. It will introduce you to a whole new world, one of reading.

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Summary: A fantastic book!
Review: I think that "Queen`s confession" is a very good story.It seems like we get a glance into Queen Marie Antoinettes life. It is just like a dairy and when you have read it, you think you know her personally! You should really read it...

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Summary: Great book
Review: I thought this book was great, it cleared up a lot of the things I had heard about Marie Antoinette (even though I'm sure the author colored it a bit) and I really appreciated the fact that the author didn't make her sound like a "can do no wrong" heroine. This book made Marie Antoinette a real person for me, more than any other book featuring her had before.

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Summary: A page turner
Review: I'm glad that this was the first book I read by Victoria Holt.It is engrossing. It makes you feel like you actually got a chance tosee life from the point of view of a woman thrown into a life she doesn't understand......