Marie Antoinette is a Queen of France and her husband Louis XVI were deposed by the French Revolution and ended their lives at the guillotine. Those who knew the queen say she didn’t read a single book to the end, and always avoided serious conversations. Maria absorbed only that both amused her. In accordance with her inclinations the daily routine of royal personages was lined up. Sidonie Laborde, the queen’s nominal reciter is a girl, whose duties included reading books for the queen was always beside her. In her memoirs, she recalls the days spent with Marie Antoinette after the capture of the Bastille.