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The Fatal Friendship: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen, and the Flight to Varennes
The Fatal Friendship Marie Antoinette Count Fersen and the Flight to Varennes Author:Stanley Loomis "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 squ... more »are. The youth was a Swedish nobleman, Count Axel Fersen, and the young princess was Marie Antoinette, soon to be queen of France. "The Fatal Friendship" is the story of the intimacy that developed between them and its consequences for them both. It is a story that has intrigued and puzzled historians down to the present day."« less