author
Maxime de La Rocheterie
1837–1917
Best known for his deeply researched books on Marie-Antoinette and the French Revolution, this 19th-century French historian wrote with a clear sense of drama as well as a taste for archival detail. His work helped keep the final decades of the French monarchy vivid for later readers.
2 Audiobooks
Histoire de Marie-Antoinette, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Maxime de La Rocheterie
Histoire de Marie-Antoinette, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Maxime de La Rocheterie
About the author
Born in Orléans in 1837 and dead in 1917, Maxime de La Rocheterie was a French historian and man of letters from the Laage de La Rocheterie family. Available library and reference records consistently identify him as an author of historical works focused on the late Ancien Régime and the Revolution, especially Marie-Antoinette.
He is most closely associated with Histoire de Marie-Antoinette, later known in English as The Life of Marie Antoinette. Catalog records also show that parts of this work first appeared in the Revue des questions historiques and in the Mémoires de l’Académie de Sainte-Croix, which suggests the careful, document-based approach that shaped his reputation.
Sources found for this overview confirm the outline of his life and the lasting visibility of his books, but they offer only limited biographical detail beyond his dates, origins, and subjects. Even so, he stands out as one of those historians whose name remains closely tied to a single enduring subject: the world of Marie-Antoinette and the last years of the French monarchy.