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Marie-Thérèse : the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter / Susan Nagel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2009.Description: xxix, 418 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, geneal. tables ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0747596662 (pbk.)
  • 1596910585 (pbk.)
  • 9780747596660 (pbk.)
  • 9781596910584 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Chronology -- Family trees -- Map -- Preface -- pt. 1: Sinner. Sex and politics -- Child of France -- Playmates -- Once upon a time -- Storm clouds over the palace -- The end of the fairy tale -- A new home -- A dangerous game -- The losing side -- Two orphans -- Sole survivor -- pt. 2: Saint. Every inch a princess -- Vienna -- The émigrées -- The birth of a strategist -- A bride -- The new Antigone -- Country life -- The only man in the family -- Restoration -- Birth, death and a new Dauphine -- Mending fences -- Suspicions confirmed -- Blackmail -- Queen of France -- The matriarch -- Afterword.
Summary: This volume recounts the life and times of Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France (1778-1851), the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. After the execution of the King and Queen in 1793, their young daughter 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, this volume contends that it has solved this mystery, creating a biography of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an era.
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In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the cries she heard of her young brother being tortured in an adjacent cell. She emerged to an uncertain future- an orphan, exile and focus on political plots and marriage schemes of the crowned heads of Europe.
Susan Nagel tells a remarkable story of an astonishing woman whose life was shrouded in mystery, from her birth in front of rowdy crowds at Versailles, to her upbringing by her doting parents, through to Revolution, imprisonment, exile, Restoration and, finally, her reincarnation as Saint and Matriarch.

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-392) and index.

Chronology -- Family trees -- Map -- Preface -- pt. 1: Sinner. Sex and politics -- Child of France -- Playmates -- Once upon a time -- Storm clouds over the palace -- The end of the fairy tale -- A new home -- A dangerous game -- The losing side -- Two orphans -- Sole survivor -- pt. 2: Saint. Every inch a princess -- Vienna -- The émigrées -- The birth of a strategist -- A bride -- The new Antigone -- Country life -- The only man in the family -- Restoration -- Birth, death and a new Dauphine -- Mending fences -- Suspicions confirmed -- Blackmail -- Queen of France -- The matriarch -- Afterword.

This volume recounts the life and times of Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France (1778-1851), the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. After the execution of the King and Queen in 1793, their young daughter 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, this volume contends that it has solved this mystery, creating a biography of a remarkable woman who both defined and shaped an era.

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