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Marie Therese, Child of Terror

The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

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Marie Therese, Child of Terror

Auteur(s): Susan Nagel
Narrateur(s): Rosalyn Landor
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 In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her 17th birthday, Marie-Therese, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris' notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the cries she heard of her young brother being tortured in an adjacent cell.

She emerged to an uncertain future: an orphan, exile, and focus of political plots and marriage schemes of the crowned heads of Europe. Throughout, she remained stubbornly loyal to France and to the Bourbon dynasty of which she was part. However, the horrors she had witnessed and been a victim to would haunt her for the rest of her life.

Many believe to this day that the traumatized princess was switched with her "half sister" and spirited away to live as "the Dark Countess", leaving the impostor to play her role on the political stage of Europe. Now, 200 years later, using handwriting samples, DNA testing, and a cache of Bourbon family letters, Susan Nagel finally solves this mystery.

Nagel tells a remarkable story of an astonishing woman, from her birth, to her upbringing by doting parents, through to Revolution, imprisonment, exile, Restoration, and, finally, her reincarnation as saint and matriarch.

©2008 Susan Nagel (P)2008 Books on Tape Europe Femmes Histoire Personnalités religieuses Politiciens Politique et militantisme Effrayant Redevances Révolution française Impérialisme Moyen Âge Guerre Amérique Latine Outcast
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Very informative and moving work on many levels. This is an incredible study of survival and PTSD of a woman who survived hell from the French revolutionaries. The brutalities committed on her brother are absolutely mind blowing, it's no wonder her trauma never left her yet she was an inspirational woman throughout her life. Highly recommend!!

Powerful work and well read!

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