by Elisabeth Badinter · French and European Publications Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081377721
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«Le pouvoir au féminin» is Elisabeth Badinter's essay on Maria Theresa of Austria, published in paperback (368 pages, in French).
Biography of Maria Theresa of Austria (1717-1780), mother of Marie Antoinette and heiress of the Habsburgs. Drawing on her private correspondence, Badinter analyses how she reconciled her role as wife of an unfaithful husband, mother of sixteen children and absolute ruler of a vast empire for forty years, and the contradictions this posed for her.
The full subtitle is «Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, 1717-1780 - L'impératrice-reine». The work was published in 2016 and includes bibliographic references and an index.
For readers interested in European history and biographies of women in power.
Élisabeth Badinter is a French philosopher, author and historian.
