While revolution raged outside, Marie Antoinette was penning letters to her friend and potential lover, Swedish count Axel von Fersen. Heritage Images/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images What ...

Marie Antoinette can see how dire things look for ... one that is not in favor of Antoinette or Louis. Félicité, his lover and a passionate political thinker, is eager to prop up Chartres ...

Ever a passionate lover of interior design, Marie Antoinette continued to redecorate and refurbish her beloved secret spaces until 1788. A year later, when revolutionaries stormed the palace in ...

A lover of music who played several instruments and sang, Marie Antoinette regularly held carefree musical and theatrical performances in her bucolic Trianon retreat in France, just outside the ...