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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman

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by Stefan Zweig

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Can anyone tell me what approach the author takes in the matter of the relationship between Marie Antoinette and Count Fersen? Does he state that they truly had an affair or claims it was just platonic love?
Lydia I believe that they had an affair. It might have started as platonic, but after her marriage was consummated, there was opportunity to advance an affa…moreI believe that they had an affair. It might have started as platonic, but after her marriage was consummated, there was opportunity to advance an affair. I stated in my review after the first child was born that was really when the affair came to fruition. A lot depended on the intimacy of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, of which I think that there was little.(less)
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