NO queen has received more posthumous affection than Marie-Antoinette. A steady throb of emotion, discernible on two continents, can be traced to her adorers. As the symbol of all aristocratic virtue ...

While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how to be generous when he ...