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Marie Antoinette and Axel Fersen
Prince_Lieven:
They may have been in love, but not lovers in the physical sense, IMHO - as Antonia Fraser points out in 'the Journey', as Queen of France, Marie-Antoinette had no privacy whatsoever - there simply couldn't have been any secret trysts or anything of the kind! I also just can't see MA as an adulterous kind of woman.
Marie-Liesl:
This is only uncensored letter, it wrote Marie-Antoinette to Axel 4. july 1791, after failed escape from France:
"I only can say that I love you... I´m all right, don´t worry of me, but I´d love to know how are you. Please, write me in cipher, my address can write your lord in waiting... And write me, to how person I must address my letters to you, because I can´t live without it. Goodbye, my bonniest and most loving man from all people. I hug you from all of my heart."
(I hope this is right translation of letter, because my English is not very good...)
Prince_Lieven:
Thanks Marie-Liesl! Your English is wonderful! :D
I think the first line of the letter confirms their feelings for each other! ;D
Marie-Liesl:
There is picture of Axel Fersen:
http://www.marie--antoinette.de/Bilder/1_freunde.htm
elena_maria_vidal:
Are those letters in the queen's handwriting?
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