Featuring personal correspondence, lavish illustrations, and a wealth of unpublished material, this handsome slipcased volume reveals an intimate portrait of Marie Antoinette, her personal collections, and Versailles.
Hélène Delalex is Heritage Conservation Manager at the Château de Versailles. She has curated exhibitions, contributed to numerous books, and appears regularly on television history programs in France. Francis Hammond’s photographs have been published in Martha Stewart Living, Elle Décoration, and Historic Houses of Paris (2010), Versailles: A Private Invitation (2011), Entertaining in Grand Style (2013), and A Day at Versailles (2013).
"A Day With Marie Antoinette by Hélène Delalex is a
beautifully crafted, intimate look at the life and legend of Marie
Antoinette as told through the objects, places and people that
defined her story: the furniture, paintings, etchings, lavish rooms
and gardens of Versailles where she spent most of her ultimately
tragic life are highlighted in this concise, charming overview of
Marie Antoinette."
-VIVE LA QUEEN BLOG
"Hélène Delalex follows the breathless and unsettling pace of
change set by Marie Antoinette at Versailles, visiting the
sumptuous palace interiors that are imbued with her memory, such as
the Gilded Cabinet or the Cabinet de la Méridienne, and the Queen’s
Hamlet, still so strongly marked by her presence and determination
to break with the conventions of court life. Until that fateful day
in October 1789, when she was forced to flee the palace of
Versailles, which will always embody the ambivalences of her
spirit."
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