Elisabeth Badinter - Egy mother konfliktusai

In this book, Elisabeth Badinter, drawing from unpublished documents, approaches the fascinating figure of Empress Mária Theresia Habsburg and Queen of Hungary (1717-1780), the most powerful ruler of her time, from the perspective of motherhood. This new portrait reveals the hidden side of Mária Terézia's personality: a mother with a complicated personality, a mother who is concerned about her children, capable of the deepest tenderness, but sometimes harshness and even injustice. A woman who was often pulled by her forced choices between the dictates of the heart and the interests of the state.

"I wanted to know what kind of mother the queen was, how she raised her children, how she behaved towards them. Mária Theresia embodies a new chapter in the history of mothers, in which many women today will recognize her, because this is the story of active motherhood, of a mother responsible for all her children . It belongs to the mother who mourns her dead children, is anxious when they are sick, feels responsible for everything they do, and is also tormented by guilt for their difficulties."

Elisabeth Badinter