Review: "Marie Antoinette"

The key to understanding Marie Antoinette, in my opinion, is its anachronistically modern flavour. I quite enjoyed it. A few years ago I was writing a murder mystery set in the late 19th Century. I needed to do research on the period, and so I turned to the short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. To my surprise, I found that there was very little description of the things I was interested in: hansom cabs, trains and subways, the nature of indoor lighting and plumbing, etc.