Farewell My Queens: from Marie Antoinette to Farah Diba (Paperback 2022)

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The diversity of human experience helps us appreciate cultures, ideas, arts, engineering, and traditions that are not our own, moreover, to recognize them as meaningful products of specific
times and places across the globe. history helps us to realize how different our lived experiences are from our ancestors, yet how similar we are in our goals. Oral history which is identified as people passing down their memories in a speech fashion, (also taped recording since 1886) written history and documented files are part of contemporary times and post-modern interpretation today.

During any history writing, one has to look at historians and, in this book, we remember the following writers and their contribution. In 1961, E. h. Carr wrote a book called What is History? in which he highlighted how history is defined. From this discussion the history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals, which includes oral history, society, and moral judgments in history became prevalent. Carr did several lectures at Cambridge university in the uK, and these were intended as a broad introduction into the subject of the theory of history. Their accessibility has resulted in What is history? and was one of the key texts in the field of historiography.

Alongside what Carr produced, The Practice of History was written by G. r. Elton in 1967. his interpretation was controversial and a little against Carr however, Elton praised Carr for rejecting the role of ‘accidents’ in history. Nevertheless, he stated that Carr’s philosophy of history was an attempt to provide a secular version of the medieval view of history as the working of God’s master plan. Elton’s focus is on historical facts, and he views history as a series of events. This highlights how history was understood and put forward for a contemporary society, the readers and learners of history. Please note that at the time of each event in history, fashion, art, music and architecture were all contemporary for that given time, as they are today. The French revolution showed that there were historians, Clergymen, The royal Family, Aristocrats, and Society, who all showed their views, which are in historical books today.

E. P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class in 1963, which drew attention to several factors in history. Thompson uses the term ‘working class’, rather than ‘classes,’ throughout the book to emphasize the buildup and losses of a working-class society. he wrote that in the years between 1780 and 1832 most English working people came to feel an identity of interests as between themselves, and as against other people whose interests were different hence, the well-off and aristocracy. The book was certainly a landmark in English history writing. Thompson played down his thoughts on the French revolution and wrote more about the English society.
The Enlightenment was also at its peak building up to the pre- revolution which showed a philosophical movement that dominated Europe during the 18th century. It was centered around the idea of primary source of authority and legitimacy which advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
This book focuses on Marie-Antoinette, the most fascinated and controversial figure in French history, the social movement, the causes of the French revolution and its outcome. In chapter 2, three revolutions are discussed: French, American and Iranian. Then it skips 200 years and considers three Queens in the East, the mysterious land of Persia, married to the last king, all with strong backgrounds in relations to France. The last two Queens of France and Persia lost the support from society and the monarchy which had controlled France and Iran for centuries, ended.
Life at the French Court, the storming of The Bastille in 1789, the executions that followed before a cheering crowd: this is the history of Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France, and that of Farah Diba, the last Shabanu of Iran, the elite, aristocrats and the stronghold of the social classes, during times of revolution. Stewart Essence Parr

Dr. Ellie Abdi is a recognized international expert in Education with a strong background in gymnastics and dance, Dr. Ellie Abdi is an academic who has held many roles from PK to doctoral level at American and French Universities plus a school district. Prof. Abdi is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals in Turkey, India, Bulgaria and US, a review editor for a Swiss journal and an editor for French Livre de Lyon publishing. Furthermore, she is not merely invited to many editorial journals, scientific committees, conferences, radio and TV stations as an author, presenter, and keynote domestically and internationally just as her research, interviews, and articles have been published on sites and journals globally and domestically. Dr. Abdi is the author of 3 books on education, chief editor of a book on Medical Science and wrote several chapters in various books on biomechanics and published more than 30 papers. She resides near New York and travels to France often. This is her 5th book.

Stewart Essence Parr was born in London in the late 1960's. During the unrest that began with a series of student occupations, protests on capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism, and traditional institutions. The student occupations and general strikes initiated across France were met with forceful confrontation by university administrators and the Police. Stewart lived in France from 1988 until 1991 where he began to teach English and embraced European culture. Upon returning from France, he built his own company Elusivewax in 1996 and teaches music technology, Adobe - a digital transformation and modern history throughout Europe, The USA, Cambridge, London and South East England which he continues today. He graduated from Middlesex University in 1998 with a BA Hons in History and Education and continued his studies in music at Goldsmiths University, London gaining a (PACE) Music Diploma in 2006. In 2014 Stewart gained a postgraduate degree in Museums and Galleries in Education at The University College London and has worked in several independent A’S Level and diploma schools writing educational curriculums along with the Edexcel Music Curriculum which is still taught today. He is a historian who embraces culture and continues to teach history across the globe at High Schools, Universities, and Museums along with his compelling writing on what happened in the past, His-Story.



Nooshin Saeidosadat Manshadi was Born in Tehran, Iran in 1986, Nooshin Saeidosadat Manshadi received her B.Sc in Architectural Engineering from TFT University in Yazd, a private university in 2010. She has worked as an interior and landscape designer since 2009 in an architecture company. In 2013 after graduating from a rigorous, one-year training program, Nooshin was certified as an official tour guide by the Cultural Heritage Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2017 Nooshin was chosen as one of the international tour guides by the World Federation of Tour Guides Association-WFTGA. This gave her an opportunity to travel to different parts of the world including European countries. Through her visits to Paris and particularly Versailles Palace, she was influenced by the stories of Versailles and, mostly with the story and life of Marie Antoinette. While everyone is looking at cultural differences, with a comparative mind Nooshin was attracted to similarities in history and culture of France in the 1700s to revolutionary aspects in her country. This is where the comparative analysis of Marie Antoinette to the last three Queens of Iran (Fawzia Fuad, Soraya Bakhtiary and Farah Diba) was born.

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