Juliet Grey

Live Chat with Juliet Grey Tonight

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | Historical Fiction, Historical Figures, Juliet Grey | No Comments

I am so excited to join Amy Bruno and Juliet Grey on Passages to the Past tonight. Juliet is celebrating the release of her new novel about Marie Antoinette, Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow. I am looking forward to chatting with the author and hearing more about the doomed queen. If you’re into Marie Antoinette, follow the link below to check it out.

http://www.passagestothepast.com/

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Juliet Grey and BECOMING MARIE ANTOINETTE

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 | Juliet Grey | 2 Comments

Like so many people, I am fascinated by Marie Antoinette, and have looked forward to Juliet Grey’s trilogy about the life of this doomed queen. I have bought the novel, BECOMING MARIE ANTOINETTE. Before I dive in, I wanted to post the book trailer here.

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After reading MISTRESS OF THE REVOLUTION, I feel as if I have a better understanding of the Jacobin side of the question, how the poor people were starving for years on end, over taxed and burdened by the costs of the royal court and the nobility of France. I feel I also have a better view of what passed for “justice” under the Old Regime. This is interesting, because I have always sympathized with the royalists, being devoted to a queen myself (Eleanor, of course).  Cut off from the people, Marie Antoinette and her husband Louis XVI were unable to get many of the reforms they asked for past the nobility, who had no interest in conceding to the populace. From all I have heard, Juliet Grey does a marvelous job of speaking for the dead in BECOMING MARIE ANTOINETTE.

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