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Margaret Anne MacLeod

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https://www.marieantoinettethecourageousend.com/

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Historical Fiction, History, Fiction

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MacLeod says: ‘If like me, you’re gripped by the heart rending riches to rags story of Marie Antoinette, you’ll understand why I’ve spent ages reading everything I could get my hands on about this unfortunate queen. For years, while my babies were small, I scoured dusty university book shelves to find 200 year old books of letters and memoirs – to read, and sometimes to translate, while they slept.’

This book is the product of these years of research. It is based on contemporary letters and memoirs – written by Marie Antoinette and those closest to Marie Antoinette – her mother, her love Fersen, her unsurprisingly embittered daughter Marie Therese, her maid, the governess of her children. And a roll call of many others.

Now a teacher, her chi ...more

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Meet Marie Antoinette's heroes: Axel von Fersen

“Stay in Paris, then it’ll be easy to reach you. The king of Prussia, with his army, has resolved to make straight for Paris. Stay in Paris.”

This was the disastrous advice from Axel von Fersen, Marie Antoinette’s beloved, in the weeks before her palace was stormed and her husband deposed.

Marie Antoinette listened to her love – don’t we all – and weeks later the Parisians stormed her palace, impris Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 15, 2018 14:31 • Tags: axel-von-fersen, marie-antoinette

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Margaret Anne MacLeod’s books

Average rating: 3.44 · 16 ratings · 6 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End 3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Were Three of Us in the Relationship: The Secret Letters of Marie Antoinette 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Margaret Anne MacLeod (?)

“My father continues to press me to return to Sweden and abandon everything, but I will never do so. I am absolutely determined, nothing in the world could persuade me to abandon you.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

tags: historical-fiction

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“You will need money in the beginning. How much do you have in London? Can we use your diamonds as security?”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

tags: historical-fiction

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“If you see me leaving this palace, you have my permission to nail me to the wall.”
― Margaret Anne MacLeod, Marie Antoinette: The Courageous End

tags: historical-fiction

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