CONTENTS

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DEDICATION

FAMILY TREES

MAP OF EUROPE 1770

AUTHOR’S NOTE

PART ONE          •          MADAME ANTOINE

CHAPTER ONE          •          A SMALL ARCHDUCHESS

CHAPTER TWO          •          BORN TO OBEY

CHAPTER THREE          •          GREATNESS

CHAPTER FOUR          •          SENDING AN ANGEL

PART TWO          •          THE DAUPHINE

CHAPTER FIVE          •          FRANCE’S HAPPINESS

CHAPTER SIX          •          IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE WORLD

CHAPTER SEVEN          •          STRANGE BEHAVIOUR

CHAPTER EIGHT          •          LOVE OF A PEOPLE

PART THREE          •          QUEEN CONSORT

CHAPTER NINE          •          IN TRUTH A GODDESS

CHAPTER TEN          •          AN UNHAPPY WOMAN?

CHAPTER ELEVEN          •          YOU SHALL BE MINE . . .

CHAPTER TWELVE          •          FULFILLING THEIR WISHES

PART FOUR          •          QUEEN AND MOTHER

CHAPTER THIRTEEN          •          THE FLOWERS OF THE CROWN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN          •          ACQUISITIONS

CHAPTER FIFTEEN          •          ARREST THE CARDINAL!

CHAPTER SIXTEEN          •          MADAME DEFICIT

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN          •          CLOSE TO SHIPWRECK

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN          •          HATED, HUMBLED, MORTIFIED

PART FIVE          •          THE AUSTRIAN WOMAN

CHAPTER NINETEEN          •          HER MAJESTY THE PRISONER

CHAPTER TWENTY          •          GREAT HOPES

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE          •          DEPARTURE AT MIDNIGHT

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO          •          UP TO THE EMPEROR

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE          •          VIOLENCE AND RAGE

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR          •          THE TOWER

PART SIX          •          WIDOW CAPET

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE          •          UNFORTUNATE PRINCESS

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX          •          THE HEAD OF ANTOINETTE

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN          •          EPILOGUE


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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BY ANTONIA FRASER

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