Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
“Gripping…providing new insights into a misunderstood and tragic figure.”—Washington Times After the execution of L ouis XVI and Marie Antoinette, their young daughter, Marie-Thérèse, remained imprisoned. Released on her seventeenth birthday, she faced an uncertain future. Rumor spread that the...
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“Gripping…providing new insights into a misunderstood and tragic figure.”—Washington Times After the execution of L ouis XVI and Marie Antoinette, their young daughter, Marie-Thérèse, remained imprisoned. Released on her seventeenth birthday, she faced an uncertain future. Rumor spread that the traumatized princess had switched places with an illegitimate half sister, to live out her days as the mysterious “Dark Countess.” Now, two hundred years later, Susan Nagel finally solves this mystery, creating a brilliant new biography of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an era.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781596910584 (1596910585)
Publish date: July 7th 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
19th Century,
Biography Memoir,
France,
European History,
18th Century,
French Revolution
Marie-Thérèse is not always the first name remembered in the history of the French Revolution, surrounded as she was by more famous, more tragic, more ambitious people. She was Madame Royale, the Duchess d'Angoulême, the Dauphine and (to legitimists) the Queen of France. In her own time, she was mor...
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