Untold Love Story: Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen
Editorial Reviews
Review
'A vivid and poignant portrait' The Sunday Times
'Thoroughly enjoyable, and required reading for anyone fascinated by this most tragic of Queens' The Catholic Herald
'Compelling reading - Evelyn Farr has a way of blowing the dust off historical fact and thus revealing a set of truths which make ordinary historical biographies seem comparatively dull' The Birmingham Post
Book Description
The 'Austrian whore', accused of every imaginable sexual and political crime - or saint, pure and unsullied? Neither was true, but the life and tragic death of Marie Antoinette have, over the centuries, assumed almost mythical proportions.
She was fourteen, married to an obese, uncouth husband who could not consummate the marriage. In her loneliness she turned to the young, sympathetic and attractive Axel Fersen, who soon became for her that 'most loved and loving of men'. Their devotion to each other was known only to a few at Court and lasted for their entire lives.
In this moving study, using contemporary and other documents, Evelyn Farr peels back layers of libels and misinformation which continue to obscure the fateful story of the love between the French Queen and the Swedish Count.
Untold Love Story: Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen
Untold Love Story: Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen,Evelyn Farr,Allison & Busby,0749003707,Biography / Autobiography,Europe - France,Historical - General,History,Literature: Classics,Royalty,Biography: historical,Biography: royalty,European history: c 1750 to c 1900,France,Rank & titles,Social history
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