Louis Antoinette Author:Vincent Cronin A great love story, a great human drama in a reevaluation of the most misunderstood of royal couples . . . — Louis XVI of France has generally been portrayed as a nonentity--an ineffectual monarch, an inadequate husband, almost a butt. As for Marie Antoinette, one falsely ascribed line, "If they have no bread, let them eat cake," has been suffici... more »ent to this moment to establish her as the princess of frivolity. Not so, and in this first joint biography of a star-crossed pair--distinguished by its narrative power and its firm grasp of wide-ranging materials--Vincent Cronin reveals the true dimensions of their lives and characters.« less