FOR A NOVEL based on the published research of others, I need to acknowledge, with admiration and gratitude, particular nonfiction authors and their works that provided the foundation for my imaginative recreation of Marie Antoinette and her times: Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (2001); Evelyne Lever, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson, Marie Antoinette, The Last Queen of France (2000); Ian Dunlop, Marie-Antoinette, A Portrait (1993); Stefan Zweig, translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman (1933); Olivier Bernier, The Secrets of Marie Antoinette (1985); Olivier Bernier, The Eighteenth-Century Woman (1982); Chantal Thomas, translated from the French by Julie Rose, The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette (2001); Madame Campan, Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France; Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, translated from the French by Lionel Strachey, Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun (1903); Mary D. Sheriff, The Exceptional Woman: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the Cultural Politics of Art (1996); Gita May, Elisabeth Vigée LeBrun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution (2005); Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1998); Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989).
For their administrative support of me as Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville, I express my profound gratitude to James Ramsey, president, and to Blaine Hudson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and to my colleagues of the Departments of English, Humanities, and Modern Languages; I thank as well President Jo Ann Rooney and Vice Presidents L. Randy Strickland and Tori Murden McClure of Spalding University, and the staff, faculty, and students of the brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program, which I serve as program director.
A special note of gratitude is due the J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, for sponsoring an enlightening lecture tour to Paris and Versailles, “The Art and Architecture of the Age of Marie Antoinette,” and to the tour leaders, Barbara Castleman and John Martin, and to my fellow travelers.
—SJN, Louisville, 2006
About the Author
Sena Jeter Naslund is Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville, program director of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA in Writing, and current Kentucky Poet Laureate. Recipient of the Harper Lee Award and the Southeastern Library Association Fiction Award, she is editor of The Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis Press. She is the author of the novels Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, and Sherlock in Love and a collection of stories, The Disobedience of Water. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Credits
Jacket collage: painting of woman courtesy of Château de Versailles, France, Giraudon/Bridgeman Art Library; brisé lacquered fan from the Royal Collection © 2006 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.
ABUNDANCE, A NOVEL OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. Copyright © 2006 by Sena Jeter Naslund. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2006 ISBN: 9780061827402
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Naslund, Sena Jeter
Abundance, a novel of Marie Antoinette / Sena Jeter Naslund.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-082539-3
ISBN-10: 0-06-082539-1
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