I Love You Madly: Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: the Secret Letters - Rilegato

Farr, Evelyn

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ISBN 10: 0720618770 ISBN 13: 9780720618778

Casa editrice: Peter Owen Ltd, 2016

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

PRAISE FOR Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story.
"Evelyn Farr has a way of blowing the dust off historical fact and thus revealing a set of truths which, in their courageous audacity, make ordinary historical biographies seem comparatively dull" --Birmingham Post

"A vivid and poignant portrait of the last, desperate days of the Bourbons" --The Sunday Times

"Thoroughly enjoyable and required reading for anyone fascinated by the most tragic of queens" --Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

L'autore:

Evelyn Farr is the author of Before the Deluge and Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story, an area of history to which she has returned in the light of some exceptional new material.

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• Editore: Peter Owen Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0720618770
• ISBN 13: 9780720618778
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 400