The fatal friendship
Subtitle: Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the flight to Varennes.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793; Fersen, Hans Axel von, greve, 1755-1810; Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 -- Flight to Varennes, 1791; Queens -- France -- Biography; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799
Description: 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 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 square.
Notes: 85383

Bibliography: p. 339-341.