Vive Madame la Dauphine

Book one of the Marie Antoinette Trilogy

By what means might Marie Antoinette win the heart of "Papa Roi" and so avoid being sent home? How will La Dauphine steer a course through the pitfalls laid for her by her enemies? How cope with the venomous letters from her mother, Marie Therese, Empress of Austria?

Arriving as a fourteen-year-old girl in Versailles, Marie Antoinette awaits her wedding day on 16th May 1770. Just four years later she will become queen of the greatest nation in Europe. Read how, fifteen years before the storming of the Bastille, the first signs of revolution were already discernible. But what was the role of Marie Antoinette in all of this, and might she have saved herself from her fated execution by guillotine?

Lose yourself in eighteenth-century life at the Palace of Versailles. Witness the social change, the gathering unrest that ultimately erupted in a malignant outburst that set all Europe simmering. In Book One of the Marie Antoinette Trilogy you encounter Madame la Dauphine as she transforms herself from child bride into the Queen of France, a crucial yet largely neglected period of her life. Accompany the young Marie Antoinette of Vive Madame la Dauphine through the years of inexperience, meeting one by one the figures that will be key to her life. What was the real role played by Austrian ambassador, Comte de Mercy? What effect did the Swedish Count Axel von Fersen have upon her young heart and mind? Was it possible for her to love her husband Louis XVI, or he her?

Historical novelist André Romijn (antoniovivaldi.co.uk) conducts you into the presence of a new Marie Antoinette, a woman capable of holding her own amidst the chaos and acrimony of court life at Versailles, one who rises magnificently to the challenges of sovereignty, motherhood and love. But who allows herself finally and fatally to be caught up in the maelstrom of destruction that is the French Revolution.

This compelling and emotionally charged novel is based on fact.  Vive Madame la Dauphine will be released on 16th October 2008.
     
Order your copy now or ask for it at your nearest bookshop.

ISBN: 978-0955410024
Author: André Romijn
Binding: paperback
No of pages: 240 pages
Size: 15 x 22 cm

Roman House Publishers Ltd    
Roman House
Ripon
HG4  1LE North Yorkshire
United Kingdom