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“This highly detailed, exhaustively researched, often riveting account will appeal especially to all those readers who’ve immersed themselves in the many recent books about Marie Antoinette.”
—Booklist, starred review
“A powerful story told with wonderful verve: a triumph.”
—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
“Unlike her mother, the subject of so much historical attention, Marie-Thérèse, the sole survivor of her nuclear family, has been neglected by posterity. If she’s remembered at all, it’s as a figure typical of the restored Bourbons, who had famously forgotten nothing and learned nothing. In this biography, the account of what she endured is harrowing … Contrary to received wisdom, the woman in these pages emerges, after m
uch evidence cited, as a veritable prototype of saintly Catholic forgiveness.”
—Atlantic
“If there is a more fascinating or unbelievable life than the one led by Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Marie Antoinette’s sole surviving child, I certainly am not familiar with it … Royal orphan and republican bête noire, the subject of fervent monarchist adoration and the object obsessive conspiracy theories, this princess emerges in Nagel’s telling as one of the nineteenth century’s most captivating heroines. A must-read for lovers of French history and royal biography alike.”
—Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“Relates the dramatic highs and lows experienced by the woman known as ‘Madame Royale’ … Highly detailed and sympathetic.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Few historical tales can match the family drama of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette … Author Susan Nagel puts to rest most of the doubts about the Bourbons via a thorough analysis of DNA samples and handwriting in family letters. But the best part of the tale isn’t the clarification of the historical record—it’s the engaging portrait Nagel paints of a young woman who gave up everything for the love of France and her family.”
—Virtuoso Life
“Enlivened by intriguing asides about the young Marie-Thérèse, such as the special sign language she developed to communicate with her parents in prison and the impact on her own development of her mother’s bravery in the face of the French Revolution.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Taking one of those fascinating lives that have remained too long untold, Susan Nagel’s Marie-Thérèse is a well-researched, entertaining and often poignant biography that recreates royalty, terror, tragedy, revolution, and restoration with verve and vividness.’’
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Young Stalin and Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Marie-Thérèse, child of terror : the fate of Marie Antoinette’s daughter / Susan Nagel.
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1. Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, duchesse d’, 1778–1851. 2. France—Kings and rulers—Children—Biography. 3. Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755–1793—Family. 4. France—History—Louis XVI, 1774–1793. 5. France— History—1789–1815. I. Title.
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