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The fatal friendship : Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the flight to Varennes / Stanley Loomis.
LIBRA DC137.1 .L66 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Loomis, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.
- Marie Antoinette.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 367 pages : portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday & Co., [1972]
- Summary:
- The friendship began on a winter evening in 1774 at an Opera Ball in Paris when a lighthearted princess approached a youth of surpassing physical beauty. It ended for one of them at the scaffold in the Place de la Revolution in the most famous death scene in French history and for the other at the hands of an infuriated mob in a Stockholm square.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining-papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-367).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 231595
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