Zweig said: She was too young at that time and did not know that all the gifts of fate had a price. This is the core chapter of "The Beheaded Queen" and a portrayal of the life of the protagonist, Queen Marie Antoinette. Born into a royal family, married into a royal family, and had no worries about food and clothing. In the end, because of his indulgence in pleasure and luxury, the French people couldn't bear it, rose up in resistance, and were finally sent to the guillotine.
When she was a child, Mary was beautiful, charming, lively and cute, but she was naughty and did not like to study. Just a few months before she got married, her mother discovered that she couldn't write and didn't even have the most basic knowledge and education. So her mother tried her best to make up lessons for her, ate and stayed with her, and had long talks with her. She is a naughty person who cannot listen to her mother's serious teachings at all. The wedding day was getting closer, but Mary made no progress. The helpless mother could only shake her head and sigh. At the grand wedding, people saw joy, but in the eyes of this wily mother, she saw a tragedy unfolding quietly.
However, beyond the scope of the whip, the daughter deviated from the classics again and again, only to be disappointed again and again by the mother. Once, her brother came to visit Marie from Austria. Seeing his sister's current situation, he also gave him good advice: "You are the queen of France now. Can you read for one hour every day? It is not difficult." Mary said to her brother: "I don't like reading. She likes to enjoy life. "In Trianon, she built a small library for herself on a whim, but the books were all intact and had never been opened. In this way, Mary became dizzy, squandered her youth, and spent her time in sensuality. She could only usher in the end of being executed.
"The Beheaded Queen" tells the legendary story of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, wife of Louis XVI, and daughter of Queen Maria Theresa of Austria. Based on in-depth research and analysis of historical materials, Zweig described his life from a human perspective with meticulous psychological insight. In Zweig's writing, she is neither the pure and flawless saint described by the royalists nor the despicable prostitute attacked by the revolutionaries, but "a mediocre person", "an ordinary woman, not particularly smart, Not particularly stupid; neither fire nor ice; no special strength to do good, no strong will to do evil...a woman who is neither good nor bad, has neither the heart to be a devil nor the ambition to be a hero.
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