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When Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette were guillotined during the French Revolution, they left two children behind in the Temple Prison. Their son, the little King Louis XVII, died soon after of neglect & abuse, but their daughter, Marie-Therese survived. She escaped from prison on her seventeenth birthday, but her experiences during the Revolution affected her for the rest of her life. She was tormented all her life by rumours that she was an imposter & that her brother had survived. After her escape, she lived in Vienna with her mother’s family, but, apart from short periods back in Paris when her uncles were restored to the throne, she was in exile from France for the rest of her life. Marie-Therese married her cousin, the Duc D’Angouleme, but had no children. She became a mother to her orphaned niece & nephew, & was known as a kind, charitable woman, but with an indefinable sadness caused by the shocking experiences of her childhood.
---- Reviewed by Lyn, Headquarters
Read more reviews at NoveList
Genre - Non Fiction
When Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette were guillotined during the French Revolution, they left two children behind in the Temple Prison. Their son, the little King Louis XVII, died soon after of neglect & abuse, but their daughter, Marie-Therese survived. She escaped from prison on her seventeenth birthday, but her experiences during the Revolution affected her for the rest of her life. She was tormented all her life by rumours that she was an imposter & that her brother had survived. After her escape, she lived in Vienna with her mother’s family, but, apart from short periods back in Paris when her uncles were restored to the throne, she was in exile from France for the rest of her life. Marie-Therese married her cousin, the Duc D’Angouleme, but had no children. She became a mother to her orphaned niece & nephew, & was known as a kind, charitable woman, but with an indefinable sadness caused by the shocking experiences of her childhood.
---- Reviewed by Lyn, Headquarters
1 comment:
an amazing life, I wonder how she would look on a life that promised so much but brought such pain
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