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Zweig analyzes the chemistry of a womans soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a queen under the weight of misfortune. While it is a biased biography, it gave me some insight into the people in marie antoinettes life, especially her enemies. Stefan zweig wrote his biography of marie antoinette in the 1930s so i expected it to be quite hard going compared to more recent fare. Freud particularly when we come to her early womanhood.
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