#F.W. Kenyon

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We went to an antique market today and I always challenge my kids to find Napoleon amidst the antiques. It's a trick to make them interested in my hobbies but I'm willing to pay them if they find Napoleon so they go along with it. Well I found 3 books so I told them that I get the prize! I already have the first book that I found, Desiree by Annemarie Selinko so I didn't buy it. But I did buy the other two:

The Emperor's Lady by F.W. Kenyon and Seven Men of Gascony by R.F. Delderfield

[vivelareine]

A (very) non-exhaustive list of English-language books about Marie Antoinette. In no particular order.

General Biographies

Marie Antoinette: The Tragic Queen by Dorothy Moulton Mayer

Marie Antoinette by Desmond Seward

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Évelyne Lever

Marie Antoinette by Joan Haslip

Marie Antoinette by John Hearsey

Marie Antoinette by Philippe Huisman

The Indomitable Marie Antoinette by Simone Bertière

Marie Antoinette: Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig

Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin

Marie Antoinette by Andre Castelot

Youth Biographies

Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy by Nancy Lotz

Spilling the Beans on Marie Antoinette by Mick Gowar

Marie Antoinette by Katie Daynes

Who Was Marie Antoinette? by Dana Meachen Rau

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Mary Englar

Marie Antoinette, Fashionable Queen or Greedy Royal? by Sarah Powers Webb

Marie Antoinette, Madame Deficit by Liz Hockinson

Marie Antoinette: Controversial Queen of France by Heather E. Schwartz

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles & Petit Trianon Non-Fiction

Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles by Christain Duvernois

Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles by Martin Chapman

The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer

From Marie Antoinette’s Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album by Elisabeth de Feydeau

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles by Cécile Berly

Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture by Meredith Martin

Other Non-Fiction

Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen edited by Dena Goodman

The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie Antoinette by Chantal Thomas

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Carolyn Weber

The Queen’s Necklace: Marie Antoinette and the Scandal that Shocked and Mystified France by Frances Mossiker

Last Days of Marie Antoinette: An Historical Sketch by Ronald Sutherland Gower

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Harris

Marie-Antoinette Style by Adrien Goetz

The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the Flight to Varennes by Stanley Loomis

A Day with Marie Antoinette by Hélène Delalex

Secrets of Marie Antoinette: A Collection of Letters by Olivier Bernier

Fiction

Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas

Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy

Marie Antoinette Trilogy by Juliet Grey

The Queen’s Confession by Victoria Holt

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund

Versailles: A Novel by Kathryn Davis

Marie Antoinette by F.W. Kenyon

Youth Fiction

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky

The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg

The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer

Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen by Annie Goetzinger

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender

The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Court of Marie Antoinette by Bianca Turetsky

Moi & Marie Antoinette by Lynn Cullen

[napoleondidthat]

Alternate History from a week or two ago here. I'd love a few fics!

I am not sure on fanfics out there, I know they exist, but I’ve never looked into them. However, in Napoleonic fiction here are a few to start. Some are older and out of print so might have to check ABE and Amazon.

Desiree by AnneMarie Selinko

A Queen’s Fortune by Allison Pataki (About Desiree and Napoleon)

The Last Love by Thomas Constain (Novel about Besty Balcombe and Napoleon)

The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. trilogy by Sandra Gulland

Josephine’s Garden by Stephenie Parkyn

The Secret Life of Josephine by Carolly Erickson

The Emperor’s Lady by F.W. Kenyon

The Second Empress by Michelle Moran

Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

The Princess of Nowhere by Lorenzo Borghese (Novel about Napoleon’s sister Pauline)

Napoleon, The Song of Departure Novel 1 by Max Gallo

Napoleon, The Sun of Austerlitz Novel 2 by Max Gallo

Napoleon, The Emperor of Kings Novel 3 by Max Gallo

Napoleon, The Immortal of Saint Helena Novel 4 by Max Gallo

My Brother Napoleon by F.W. Kenyon (Novel with Caroline, Napoleon’s sister)

Shadow of the Corsican by F.W. Kenyon

Napoleon’s Last Island by Thomas Keneally

The Thunderer: A Romance of Napoleon and Josephine by E. Barrington

The Monsters of St. Helena, A Novel by Brooks Hansen

Napoleon In America by Shannon Selin

There’s a few to start! :)

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Lush, beautiful cover for the 1968 Dodd, Mead hardcover edition of F.W. Kenyon's The Naked Sword. 

[vivelareine]

A (very) non-exhaustive list of English-language books about Marie Antoinette. In no particular order.

General Biographies

Marie Antoinette: The Tragic Queen by Dorothy Moulton Mayer

Marie Antoinette by Desmond Seward

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Évelyne Lever

Marie Antoinette by Joan Haslip

Marie Antoinette by John Hearsey

Marie Antoinette by Philippe Huisman

The Indomitable Marie Antoinette by Simone Bertière

Marie Antoinette: Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig

Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin

Marie Antoinette by Andre Castelot

Youth Biographies

Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy by Nancy Lotz

Spilling the Beans on Marie Antoinette by Mick Gowar

Marie Antoinette by Katie Daynes

Who Was Marie Antoinette? by Dana Meachen Rau

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Mary Englar

Marie Antoinette, Fashionable Queen or Greedy Royal? by Sarah Powers Webb

Marie Antoinette, Madame Deficit by Liz Hockinson

Marie Antoinette: Controversial Queen of France by Heather E. Schwartz

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles & Petit Trianon Non-Fiction

Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles by Christain Duvernois

Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles by Martin Chapman

The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer

From Marie Antoinette’s Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album by Elisabeth de Feydeau

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles by Cécile Berly

Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture by Meredith Martin

Other Non-Fiction

Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen edited by Dena Goodman

The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie Antoinette by Chantal Thomas

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Carolyn Weber

The Queen’s Necklace: Marie Antoinette and the Scandal that Shocked and Mystified France by Frances Mossiker

Last Days of Marie Antoinette: An Historical Sketch by Ronald Sutherland Gower

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Harris

Marie-Antoinette Style by Adrien Goetz

The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the Flight to Varennes by Stanley Loomis

A Day with Marie Antoinette by Hélène Delalex

Secrets of Marie Antoinette: A Collection of Letters by Olivier Bernier

Fiction

Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas

Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy

Marie Antoinette Trilogy by Juliet Grey

The Queen’s Confession by Victoria Holt

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund

Versailles: A Novel by Kathryn Davis

Marie Antoinette by F.W. Kenyon

Youth Fiction

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky

The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg

The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer

Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen by Annie Goetzinger

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender

The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Court of Marie Antoinette by Bianca Turetsky

Moi & Marie Antoinette by Lynn Cullen

[napoleondidthat]

Any good historical fiction featuring Napoleon?

I’m sorry I’m late in replying and that I’ve been absent :( Been a busy week and I took a break for my birthday :)

There are quite a few historical fiction books out there with Napoleon. A lot of them are romances, many with Josephine. Here are a few though:

Desiree by Annemarie Selinko

My Brother Napoleon by F.W. Kenyon (Caroline Murat POV)

The Emperor’s Lady by F.W. Kenyon (Josephine)

The Last Love by Thomas Constain (Betsy Balcombe and St. Helena)

The Thunderer; A Romance of Napoleon and Josephine by E Barrington

Josephine The Great Lover by Pierre Nezelof

The Josephine B. Trilogy by Sandra Gulland

The Second Empress, A Novel of Napoleon’s Court by Michelle Moran

Becoming Josephine by Heather Webb

Two Empresses by Brandy Purdy

Destiny; A Novel of Napoleon and Josephine by Betram Fields

Napoleon Series by Max Gallo (books loosely used for the A&E series) 

1. The Song of Departure 

2. The Sun of Austerlitz

3. The Emperor of Kings

4. The Immortal Man of St. Helena

Napoleon’s Last Island; A Novel by Thomas Keneally

The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys (movie The Emperor’s New Clothes based on

The Princess of Nowhere, A novel by Lorenzo Borghese (Pauline Bonaparte POV)

Honorable Mention: Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo by Brian Faulkner

Honorable Mention: Clisson and Eugenie by Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon tries his hand at being an author, supposedly based on his own love affair with Desiree Clary) 

There’s a few to start :) 

[vivelareine]

A (very) non-exhaustive list of English-language books about Marie Antoinette. In no particular order.

General Biographies

Marie Antoinette: The Tragic Queen by Dorothy Moulton Mayer

Marie Antoinette by Desmond Seward

Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France by Évelyne Lever

Marie Antoinette by Joan Haslip

Marie Antoinette by John Hearsey

Marie Antoinette by Philippe Huisman

The Indomitable Marie Antoinette by Simone Bertière

Marie Antoinette: Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig

Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin

Marie Antoinette by Andre Castelot 

Youth Biographies

Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy by Nancy Lotz

Spilling the Beans on Marie Antoinette by Mick Gowar

Marie Antoinette by Katie Daynes

Who Was Marie Antoinette? by Dana Meachen Rau

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Mary Englar

Marie Antoinette, Fashionable Queen or Greedy Royal? by Sarah Powers Webb

Marie Antoinette, Madame Deficit by Liz Hockinson

Marie Antoinette: Controversial Queen of France by Heather E. Schwartz

Marie Antoinette’s Versailles & Petit Trianon Non-Fiction

Marie-Antoinette and the Last Garden at Versailles by Christain Duvernois

Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles by Martin Chapman

The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette by Marie-France Boyer

From Marie Antoinette's Garden: An Eighteenth-Century Horticultural Album by Elisabeth de Feydeau

Marie Antoinette's Versailles by Cécile Berly

Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture by Meredith Martin

Other Non-Fiction

Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen edited by Dena Goodman

The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie Antoinette by Chantal Thomas

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution by Carolyn Weber

The Queen's Necklace: Marie Antoinette and the Scandal that Shocked and Mystified France by Frances Mossiker

Last Days of Marie Antoinette: An Historical Sketch by Ronald Sutherland Gower

Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Harris

Marie-Antoinette Style by Adrien Goetz

The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the Flight to Varennes by Stanley Loomis

A Day with Marie Antoinette by Hélène Delalex

Secrets of Marie Antoinette: A Collection of Letters by Olivier Bernier

Fiction

Farewell, My Queen by Chantal Thomas

Flaunting, Extravagant Queen by Jean Plaidy

Marie Antoinette Trilogy by Juliet Grey

The Queen’s Confession by Victoria Holt

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund

Versailles: A Novel by Kathryn Davis

Marie Antoinette by F.W. Kenyon 

Youth Fiction

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky

The Secret Diary of a Princess by Melanie Clegg

The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer

Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen by Annie Goetzinger

Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer by Katie Alender

The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Court of Marie Antoinette by Bianca Turetsky

Moi & Marie Antoinette by Lynn Cullen

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His touch, the unexpected kindness of his voice, brought a lump to her throat. Instinctively, she flung herself into his arms and clung to him in the darkness. …

“Are you awake, Louis?” she whispered. “Yes.” “It isn’t what I expected.” “It isn’t what I expected either.” “Getting married is disappointing.” “Yes.” “Goodnight, Louis.” “Goodnight, Marie.”

--Marie Antoinette by F.W. Kenyon

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“But why? Why?”

Louis made a helpless gesture. “One must submit, one must try always to have faith in God.”

“Who is God? What is God? I no longer believe in God.” She said this again when the end came, tears streaming down her cheeks, her heart cold within her. Louis, so badly in need of comfort himself, tried clumsily to comfort her.

“To lose faith now, Marie, is to lose everything.”

“Everything has been lost already. What is there left to have faith in?”

“In each other,” he said.

–Marie Antoinette by F.W. Kenyon