Versailles didn’t just produce policy and pageantry; it produced commentary. Marie Antoinette arrived as a teenager, quickly learned she was a symbol before she was a person, and spent years under a ...

The French national archives hold some of the exchanged letters between Marie-Antionette and Axel von Fersen. Historians used X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy to analyze the letters. The exchanged ...

"Not without you." "My dear friend." "You that I love." Marie Antoinette sent these expressions of affection — or more? — in letters to her close friend and rumored lover Axel von Fersen. Someone ...

Redacted lines from letters between Marie-Antoinette and her alleged lover have been revealed for the first time, using advanced scientific techniques. The letters, exchanged by the doomed French ...

Most people associate Marie Antoinette with the affair of the diamond necklace, “Let them eat cake!” and the onset of the French Revolution. The French queen and her royal husband, Louis XVI, were ...

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During the throes of the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette expressed her love for Swedish count Axel von Fersen through words that are finally readable 230 years later. Modern scanning technology ...

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WASHINGTON — “Not without you.” “My dear friend.” “You that I love.” Marie Antoinette sent these expressions of affection — or more? — in letters to her close friend and rumored lover Axel von Fersen.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by researchers shows a section of a letter dated Jan. 4, 1792 by Marie-Antoinette, queen of France and wife of ...