Marie Antoinette - A Memoir of a Queen

When louis the fifteenth died, his daughter marie antoinette became queen. She quickly changed the mood of the court which had been rank with debaucheries. Her greatest pleasure was the creation and designing of a private garden at petite rienon. The place became a separate world, its community limited to her chosen favourtes. Even socially insulated courtiers seethed with resentment as she treated them like children.