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This book describes the 1789 French Revolution, the storming of the Bastille and a violent revolution of French classes of citizens against a monarchy eventually leading to an alternating succession of republics, monarchies, and short-lived empires until the Fifth Republic in 1958.
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In eighteenth-century France, Marie-Antoinette rails against the rules of etiquette that govern her life even as she tries to fulfill her greatest obligation, giving birth to the next king, but she finds diversion in spending money on clothing, parties, and gambling despite her family's warnings and the whispers of courtiers.