Download or read book Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen written by Evelyn Farr and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book I Love You Madly written by Evelyn Farr and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Marie Antoinette and Count Axel Fersen written by Evelyn Farr and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the love affair between Marie-Antoinette and the Swedish Count Axel Fersen balances the image of the French queen who is often either characterized as a whore or a martyr. Farr uses recently released correspondence and documents to reconstruct the story of the relationship between the t
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Empress written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France. Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon 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, and 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 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. Vividly written and deeply researched, In the Shadow of the Empress is the riveting story of four exceptional women who changed the course of history.
Download or read book Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen written by Evelyn Farr and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sexual and political crime. Yet after the French Revolution she was reinvented as a martyr, and the image of the woman behind the propaganda grew even more distorted. Daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Marie-Antoinette was married at the age of 15 to the heir to the French throne. The vivacious Archduchess had charm and intelligence, while the Dauphin, crowned Louis XVI in 1774, was boorish, gauche, and unable to consummate their marriage. Rebuffed by him, the young girl engaged in a hectic social life and looked elsewhere for love. This book charts her transformation from reckless teenager to dignified yet misunderstood Queen and maps out in detail her enduring relationship with Axel von Fersen. Their liaison, based on deep affection and mutual passion, began long before revolutionary storm clouds gathered over France. Although known to insiders at court, her love for the chivalrous and handsome Swedish Count was suppressed in the many attempts to manipulate the Queen's image.
Download or read book A Friend of the Queen written by Paul Gaulot and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Friend of the Queen written by Paul Gaulot and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen s Lover written by Francine du Plessix Gray and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Queen's Lover" reveals the untold love affair between Swedish aristocrat Count Axel von Fersen and Marie Antoinette.
Download or read book The Fatal Friendship written by Stanley Loomis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The friendship began on a winter evening in 1774 at an Opera Ball in Paris when a lighthearted princess approached a youth of surpassing physical beauty. It ended for one of them at the scaffold in the Place de la Revolution in the most famous death scene in French history and for the other at the hands of an infuriated mob in a Stockholm square.
Download or read book A Friend of the Queen written by Paul Gaulot and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating biography tells the story of Count Axel von Fersen, one of Marie Antoinette's closest confidants and rumored lovers. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, the authors provide a vivid and compelling portrait of a man whose loyalty to the queen would ultimately cost him his life. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen written by Lyndon Orr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-16 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen Great Love Affairs By Lyndon Orr The young nobleman was a favorite at the French court, owing partly to the recollection of his father's devotion to France, but principally because of his own amiable qualities. Queen Marie-Antoinette, who had first met Von Fersen when they both were eighteen, was especially attracted by the grace and wit of "le beau" Von Fersen. However, it was nearly four years later, on Fersen's second visit to France in the summer of 1778, when the relationship blossomed. Here he was accepted by Marie-Antoinette into her trusted circle and invited to her private gatherings at the Petit Trianon. It seems that the friendship grew very quickly and caused jealousy among those at court. By the account of Beaumont, Von Fersen left for the war in America in the early part of 1780 to avoid causing a scandal, as it was widely known that the two were close and it was rumored that he was the Queen's lover. He wrote in his memoirs that Von Fersen asked Gustaf Philip Creutz to use his influence as Swedish ambassador to France, to get him (Von Fersen) appointed as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau.
Download or read book Queen of Fashion written by Caroline Weber and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette's bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of Fashion, Caroline Weber shows how Marie Antoinette developed her reputation for fashionable excess, and explains through lively, illuminating new research the political controversies that her clothing provoked. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's "Revolution in Dress," covering each phase of the queen's tumultuous life, beginning with the young girl, struggling to survive Versailles's rigid traditions of royal glamour (twelve-foot-wide hoopskirts, whalebone corsets that crushed her organs). As queen, Marie Antoinette used stunning, often extreme costumes to project an image of power and wage war against her enemies. Gradually, however, she began to lose her hold on the French when she started to adopt "unqueenly" outfits (the provocative chemise) that, surprisingly, would be adopted by the revolutionaries who executed her. Weber's queen is sublime, human, and surprising: a sometimes courageous monarch unwilling to allow others to determine her destiny. The paradox of her tragic story, according to Weber, is that fashion—the vehicle she used to secure her triumphs—was also the means of her undoing. Weber's book is not only a stylish and original addition to Marie Antoinette scholarship, but also a moving, revelatory reinterpretation of one of history's most controversial figures.
Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen written by Hans Axel von Fersen (greve) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Count Axel Fersen Grand Marshal of Sweden written by Hans Axel von Fersen (greve) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Love Affairs written by Lyndon Orr and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Love Affairs Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen Great Love Affairs By Lyndon Orr On 27 March 1785, Marie Antoinette gave birth to a second son, Louis Charles, who bore the title of Duke of Normandy. The fact that the birth occurred exactly nine months after Fersen's return did not escape the attention of many, leading to doubt as to the parentage of the child, and to a noticeable decline of the queen's reputation in public opinion. However, the majority of Marie-Antoinette's and Louis XVII's biographers believe that the young prince was the biological son of Louis XVI, even Stefan Zweig and Antonia Fraser, who believe that Fersen and Marie Antoinette were romantically involved. Courtiers at Versailles noted in their diaries that the date of the child's conception in fact corresponded perfectly with a period when the king and the queen had spent a lot of time together, but these details were ignored amid attacks on the queen's character.
Download or read book FAMOUS AFFINITIES OF HISTORY THE ROMANCE OF DEVOTION VOL 3 written by LYNDON ORR and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Famous Affinities of History Vol. 3" is a riveting literary work that takes readers on a journey through the complexity of love, desire, and human connection. This collection of stories by "LYNDON ORR" aims to compile many of his love story ideas into a single draft and make them available at a reasonable price so that anybody can read them. An excellent historian's work weaves together a tapestry of love interactions that have dramatically impacted the path of history. Within its pages, readers will discover a treasure mine of love stories, each more intriguing than the last. The book delves into the enormous impact that love and passion can have on the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people, from the turbulent affairs of famous historical figures to the clandestine romances of lesser-known people. "Famous Affinities of History Vol. 3" stories are more than just romantic tales; they provide insight into the hearts and minds of the individuals who formed our world. These stories span location and time, emphasizing the universality of human emotions as well as the enduring power of love throughout history. This edition of "FAMOUS AFFINITIES OF HISTORY Vol.-3" is both modern and legible, with a fresh cover and professionally typeset manuscript.
Download or read book FRIEND OF THE QUEEN MARIE ANT written by Paul 1852-1937 Gaulot and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
