#that fersen guy

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Finished the Marie Antoinette trilogy today. I have mixed feelings about it, and I blame mainly the second book with that Fersen thing (leaving aside that I don't sympathize that much with the heroine, but that's me), while the third one is the most effective. Perhaps I'm going to write a review or something, once I have got rid of my cold.

But one thing, dear author: Bonbon ≠ Maxime. Only one of them jumped out of a window on Thermidor and you chose the wrong one. And since this is on the final historical note, I have moonlighted as the Nitpicky Beast.

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The end of him was even sadder, dragged out of his carriage by the mob, beaten, maltracted and murdered. He was the last of the true noblemen from Gustav III:s reign. Is there any evidence he fathered some of her sons?

There is no evidence they had a relationship, but historical fiction (and films) have established this myth, as scandal sells books. What it's worse: "serious" historians taking it as true. Even if I'm not a Marie-Antoinette enthusiast, I have personally dismissed these stories as "myth" and I am extremely annoyed everytime a book or a movie brings them up. Zweig had an excuse, but "new" biographers certainly had not. And they aren't as great writers as he was.