Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen

Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen
Title Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Farr
Publisher Peter Owen Publishers
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre France
ISBN 9780720610017

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In this definitive new edition of her acclaimed study Evelyn Farr draws on fresh evidence from archive sources - including decoded secret correspondence - to peel back the layers of misinformation obscuring the Queen's great love affair and to reveal its impact on the destiny of the French Royal Family.--Publisher.

I Love You Madly

I Love You Madly
Title I Love You Madly PDF eBook
Author Evelyn Farr
Publisher Peter Owen Publishers
Pages 327
Release 2017-01-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0720618789

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Delve deeper into the world of the BBC hit drama series Versailles, and discover the real Marie-Antoinette in this ground-breaking study of her secret love affair with the Swedish diplomat Count Axel von Fersen. For the first time an historian has compiled all the known letters between Swedish count Axel von Fersen and Marie-Antoinette, including six letters never before published. With unprecedented access to French and Swedish archives, Evelyn Farr has proven beyond doubt one of history's greatest romances. Axel von Fersen was Queen Marie-Antoinette's lover and loyal counsellor who gave her political advice from 1785 to the fall of the French monarchy at the time of the French Revolution. He organized the Royal Family's escape from Paris in 1791. Evelyn Farr's revelatory work on the subject also goes some way to proving that Count Fersen was in fact the biological father of Marie Antoinette's two younger children. Farr unveils the logistics and practicalities behind the romance; the use of code and invisible ink, the role of intermediaries, secret seals, double envelopes, codenames and the location of Fersen's clandestine lodgings at Versailles. I Love You Madly is a meticulously researched and enjoyable study of a forbidden love at a time of revolution. The letters portray a rebellious and independent queen who risked everything and broke all the rules to love the man who succeeded in conquering her heart.

In the Shadow of the Empress

In the Shadow of the Empress
Title In the Shadow of the Empress PDF eBook
Author Nancy Goldstone
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 602
Release 2021-09-16
Genre History
ISBN 1474609910

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Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of extraordinary strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor-general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, perhaps the most famous princess in history. Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of brilliant courts from Vienna to Versailles, embracing the exotic lure of Naples and Sicily, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow, and glory. Each of these women's lives was packed with passion and heart-stopping suspense. Maria Theresa inherited her father's thrones at the age of twenty-three and was immediately attacked on all sides by foreign powers confident that a woman would to be too weak to defend herself. Maria Christina, a gifted artist, who alone among her sisters succeeded in marrying for love, would face the same dangers that destroyed the monarchy in France. Resourceful Maria Carolina would usher in the golden age of Naples only to then face the deadly whirlwind of Napoleon. And, finally, Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen whose stylish excesses and captivating notoriety have masked the truth about her husband and herself for two hundred and fifty years.

The Queen's Lover

The Queen's Lover
Title The Queen's Lover PDF eBook
Author Francine du Plessix Gray
Publisher Penguin
Pages 305
Release 2013-05-28
Genre France
ISBN 0143123564

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"The Queen's Lover" reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette.

Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen, Grand-Marshal of Sweden

Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen, Grand-Marshal of Sweden
Title Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen, Grand-Marshal of Sweden PDF eBook
Author Hans Axel von Fersen (greve)
Publisher
Pages 406
Release 1902
Genre France
ISBN

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Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen

Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen
Title Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen PDF eBook
Author Hans Axel von Fersen (grefve)
Publisher
Pages 402
Release 1902
Genre France
ISBN

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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette
Title Marie Antoinette PDF eBook
Author Evelyne Lever
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 380
Release 2001-09-24
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780312283339

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A biography of the French queen explores the intrigue surrounding her life from her birth, through her unhappy marriage, her lavish life at Versailles, to the events leading up to her death by beheading during the French Revolution.