Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story

by Evelyn Farr

Book Overview

A new edition 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 The tragic life of Marie-Antoinette, last Queen of France, has assumed almost mythical proportions. A victim of political intrigue, she was known as the "Austrian whore" and accused of every imaginable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 072061001X
• ISBN13: 9780720610017
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the French Revolution's most passionate stories.

It's about time an author focuses on the relationship between Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen. Their relationship is as important and historic as that between Marie and the King, yet most biographies leave it to footnotes. Farr's story moves with exciting and horrifying pace. The emotional (and mortal!) costs born by those closest to Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI are conveyed to a point of agony. Count Fersen's character is most romantic, almost as good as Sidney Carton, but better because it's true. But it's the nature of this story to be passionate. I was looking for more substantiation of their romance. I felt some of the connections were lost in Farr's story and some of the character names were confusing. Thank you for the biography in the back - indispensible. I was also disappointed by some of the assuptions made. Lost documents and correspondance incryption muddle the facts and Farr does not fully convince me that the assumptions made are true.Even with these limitations I completely enjoyed this book (from the library) and am upset that it is not available to purchase for my library.

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