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Query: An historical curiosity

This biography of Anne of Austria has all the benefits and drawbacks of the period in which it was written. It is lengthy and detailed, but depicts Louis XIII and Richelieu not as real people but caricatures. About its subject, Queen Anne, it is curiously ambivalent. On the one hand it constantly asks for pity for her unhappy life (apparently because she was blonde and blue eyed and cried a lot - at least that's the impression I was left with). On the other hand, it is quite harsh about her degree of involvement in the Chalais conspiracy and others, not hesitating to label her activities as treasonous. In its hurry to get to Buckingham it condenses the years 1617-25 into one chapter and thus obliterates the three years in which Anne and Louis were very much in love. I don't know whether this is unwitting or done because it doesn't fit the unremittingly bleak picture being painted. In short: interesting for anecdotes but not very useful for interpretation.