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A fascinating book of regal scandal and wealthy vision, Days of Elegance, Days of Sadness covers fifteen years within the reign of Marie-Antoinette, France’s many renowned and infamous queen.Paris, 1774. At the tender age of eighteen, Marie-Antoinette ascends to the French throne alongside her husband, Louis XVI. But behind the luxury of the youthful queen’s sophisticated cotton robes and dizzyingly large coiffures, she contains further worries for her future and that of the Bourbon dynasty.From the first growing problems of relationship to the pleasure of conceiving a kid, from her enthusiasm for Remedial army attaché Axel von Fersen towards the disastrous Event of the Diamond Necklace, Marie-Antoinette attempts to go above the news and rivalries that encompass her. But as innovation flowers in The Usa, a bigger risk looms permanently beyond the French monarchy that could be swept away by the gilded gates of Versailles—one.