Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman | |
Author: | Stefan Zweig |
Title Orig: | Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters |
Translator: | Eden Paul Cedar Paul |
Country: | Germany |
Language: | German |
Publisher: | Insel-Verlag |
Pub Date: | 1932 |
English Pub Date: | 1933 |
Pages: | 639 |
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (de|'''Marie Antoinette. Bildnis eines mittleren Charakters''') is a 1932 biography of the French queen Marie Antoinette by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
The Viking Press published the first English-language edition, translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, in 1933.[1] The book was the basis for the 1938 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, Marie Antoinette, starring Norma Shearer.[2]