Was Count Axel de Fersen the lover of Marie-Antoinette?
The question, asked two centuries after the fact, may seem ridiculous or completely outdated.
It is nonetheless still relevant today.
Historians continue to wonder with varying degrees of happiness about the life of the royal couple.
If it is absurd to see in Louis XVI a fierce "enemy" of his wife, as some recent books suggest, a thick mystery continues to hang over the relations between the two sovereigns.
Until 1789, the king, rather shy, seemed to be interested first in hunting and his clocks and the queen remained in her Petit Trianon to play the shepherdess with her loving friend, the Duchess of Polignac.
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Marie-Antoinette, from Schönbrunn to the Conciergerie
So much for the gallery!
The misfortune which struck under the revolution Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette accentuated this image of Épinal, to the point that it would have been inconceivable, after 1815, to imagine the unfortunate queen of France indulging in extramarital affairs with an officer swedish, also attractive
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