The year was 1791, and although Marie Antoinette did not win the favor of the French public, she did have a pen pal. His confidant, Axel von Fersen, was a Swedish earl and a close friend of the French queen. Between the summers of 1791 and 1792, after an unsuccessful escape attempt, the queen nevertheless …

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