Marie-Antoinette: A Censored Love Deciphered

Paris, 1791. Marie Antoinette is held captive in the Tuileries. She begins a correspondence with Axel de Fersen, a young count she met nearly twenty years earlier at a ball. Their exchanges are cordial, political...and censored. Were they lovers? Were they plotting a royal rescue? The rumors are endless, but no one can say for sure. Until now. This fascinating documentary follows the team of chemists, cryptographers and historians who through amazing new scientific techniques and hours of careful study have finally managed to fully decipher the letters between the dethroned queen and the dashing count. What they discover is the love story we already know ends in doom, but that is still full of hope, passion and breathtaking romance.

[@dominiquedelattre8729]

magnifique et émouvant reportage. merci à ces formidables ingénieurs de l'écriture, et félicitations à Mme Lever qui est une excellente historienne.

[@candydonnelly7543]

I have always had a soft spot in my heart for Marie-Antoinette. The minute her carriage crossed over the border to France, she was stripped of all her clothing and her little dog was taken away from her. The French people hated her from that moment on. I hope she is in Heaven united with her Swedish Nobleman. Peace and Light to their Spirits. ❤️🇫🇷❤️

[@billieford9683]

The French people initially loved her, but as time went on she became the scapegoat for all their troubles. She was far from perfect but she did a lot of good to some, but she was Austrian and therefore she was an enemy.

[@chiaracoffani8543]

Too young to die in that horrible way.And what about her poor son!She was a true scapegoat and that was unfair and cruel.Mary Antoinette and Louis XVl were both too young to rule France...❤

[@vollhov2370]

I didn’t see 100% of Marie Antoinette’s betrayal here.. Yes, there are love letters, but again Fersen confesses his love, and although she reciprocates his love, she writes "My dear delicate friend" (but was it still treason?). As a result, it turns out that neither the King had mistresses, nor the Queen had lovers. Eventually, this Royal couple was the most faithful couple to each other, besides, she did not abandon Louis 16 in 1789 when she could have left and saved herself, she remained with the king until the very end. Added. Yes, at 3:38 minutes she confesses her love, but was it hot love? That's the question. That is, I mean did she actually cheat on the King or are these just declarations of love only in correspondence. I would like to note that Marie-Аntoinette confessed her “love” even to her best friends, so now she’s a lesbian or what ?

[@dolleserge1135]

Dites nous donc quand marie antoinette aurait pu se sauver sans louis XVI ? Va falloir etre trés patient pour avoir une réponse documentée😊

[@dolleserge1135]

Votre commentaire est d une crasse imbécilité étant donné que vous faites preuve de malhonneteté intelectuelle , en effet vous déclarez que marie antoinette n aurait ecrit que Ami...hors dans ce reportage méme , la traduction est sans équivoque ....je vous adore et n aimerai que vous jusqu a la fin des temps etc etc .....

[@vollhov2370]

@@dolleserge1135 She was asked to leave Paris in 1789 when most of the aristocracy of Versailles, including the brothers Louis 16 and the daughters of Louis 15, left Paris. (This was July 14, 1789). In addition, she was offered a divorce in 1791. Lafayette suggested.

[@vollhov2370]

@@dolleserge1135 Ami tendre et bien-aimé » Je ne l'ai pas vu dans la vidéo, peut-être que je l'ai raté à cause des suggestions en russe. Peut-être que la traduction n'était pas correcte. Pensez-vous qu'elle a trompé le roi ?

[@dolleserge1135]

Vous avez ici 55 minutes qui traduisen5 les lettres et qui vous contredisent....donc voys etes un exemple de malhonneteté intelectuelle

[@alexandramsh4740]

I’m a sucker to History! Wow 🤩 is it indeed a love story?! 🇸🇪 ❤️ 🇫🇷 Xx

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

Sempre al top! Ottima l'idea dei sottotitoli!

[@davidescozzi9885]

Very interesting. Felt the love of the two, with a twist of sadness.

[@malparillo5617]

quelle beauté qu était Marie Antoinette ❤

[@jackhandley5676]

This was incredible.

[@renatatarnawski5974]

How sad It would have been better If they were just 2 peasants in love

[@adeel-eh7xq]

Think peasants back then were too busy starving to have time for the luxuries of love and romance.

[@anabelvargas6987]

😢que triste todo lo que vivieron. Hoy sabemos que se amaron hasta el final.

[@user-nb4ex5zk3w]

This is tabloid press level. Both her and husband tried to solve massive economic issues but the Rentier class aristocrats were unwilling to transform.

[@jennysmart4411]

Read Stefan Zweig's book Marie Antoinette. A great read!

[@helenefrench4275]

I recommend you the book by Antonia Fraser as well Jenny

[@jennysmart4411]

@@helenefrench4275 Thank you so much, Helene. I love history and I love to read. I especially like learning about interesting women in history. Zweig's book gives a lot of quotes from letters Marie and her mother, Maria Theresa, wrote to each other. What's chilling is that Maria Theresa sensed Marie Antoinette's demise. Mother's intuition. Chilling. Marie and Louis XVI should have never been subjected to the "national razor".

[@helenefrench4275]

I m the same, I do like History and reading. I recommend you by Antonia Fraser: Marie Antoinette The Journey and Love and Louis XVI. Have you ever heard of Francoise Chandernagor and Jean Des Cars ? ( their books may be translated in English I am not sure). From Evelyn Farr ( The Untold Story : Marie Antoinette & Count Fersen) is excellent too :) The book The Last Queen of France by the historian Evelyn Lever has been translated in English

[@helenefrench4275]

​@jennysmart4411 Marie Antoinette The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman as well Yale edition.

[@565cmac]

I love history too, thank the both of you for your recommendations!

[@alessandrarosina]

Bellissima la ricostruzione del loro amore tramite le lettere con codici, ma non poteva essere, lei era una regina . Fersen sbaglio' a Varennes, pure fersen fece una morte tragica come pa principessa savoie carignan lamballe penthievre.

[@hernestoferreira]

Excelente filme

[@pixie_sparkle74]

She calls him friend over and over .. which means she didnt cheat on the king . ' nor him her . ~❤

[@kennethwanyoike5029]

How I love history and now it's in documentary form, I am beside myself 😊😊😊😊😊 "why don't they eat Cake?"

[@renatatarnawski5974]

Actually the cake MA was talking about Was a type of bread Plus She Never Said that

[@jaimequimaime-autrementnon2500]

Non , pas ce que vous croyez. Elle a demandé que l’on donne AUSSI les brioches au peuple , s’il n’y avait plus assez de pains😊😊😊😊

[@jessicagudino8461]

I think they lover each other but i think that was maybe not phsycal , maybe more platonic?there is no doubt she and the King love each other a united front and tender family anyway sadly both have horrible endings

[@ErickHumboldt]

Vive la Reine ⚜️👑

[@rmbc1971]

Letters of friendship in the style of Rousseau... tropes of C18th literature

[@LondonRose01]

Certainly she had many "friends"

[@cpboutiqueparisiennerouen8104]

la musique est trop forte dommage

[@NAHAJI133]

The decades and decades of hate for the French monarchs was misguided upon her head.

[@mar-mz8kv]

Il ne convient pas à une reine d'être amoureuse... Pour moi, elle n'a jamais été un exemple de reine, c'est pour cela que les Français ne l'aimaient pas...

[@jaimequimaime-autrementnon2500]

Si , les Français l’ont beaucoup aimée, mais ses dépenses, ses interventions en faveur de ses favoris, l’ont rendue impopulaire , par la suite. Elle a été victime de campagnes mensongères, et par la suite , elle est devenue beaucoup plus raisonnable, puis véritablement admirable et d’une grande noblesse. Beaucoup de Français les ont pleuré, eux et leurs enfants. Les révolutions sont toujours injustes, sanglantes, en Russie , ce fut pareil.en Angleterre, seul Charles Ier a été exécuté, parce que sa reine et certains de ses enfants avaient pu s’enfuir .

[@ErickHumboldt]

Facile de juger 200 ans plus tard !!!

[@lashachokhonelidze2498]

👍👍👍

[@lilianpouti3938]

Notre reine ne méritait pas la mort !

[@loficards]

Femme d’un honneur incroyable

[@melissacoelho8413]

I am simply going to ask who cares? The king had love affairs, no one questions it. If that was what they had as a marriage, why are we questioning it. For that matter why is it being questioned about her and not him? Really? Seriously? 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@jessicagudino8461]

You are wrong King XVI never had mistress that was something that people was giggling about his masculanity because he had no mistress in and no consumation of his marriage in comparission of Louis XV and Louis XVI

[@stars-gate]

The subtitles are complety wrong.

[@helenefrench4275]

I find the subtitles perfectly fine

[@laurakroeze762]

I love documentaries like these, but i hate the cheap wigs

[@AubzCelli]

Lets keep romanticising elite royals that gave two flying shits about their people starving even when it was supposedly "brought to their attention (because they didnt know before that LMFAO 😂)"

[@billieford9683]

Pick up a couple of history books on this couple and educate yourself before spouting nonsense. You are completely wrong.

[@AubzCelli]

@@billieford9683 keep believing British propaganda. I research real history lol keep thinking it's logical to believe 99.9% of the population was in the wrong and that .1% was in the right. Smart guy

[@calimeroernest4300]

Je suis en 2024 , Un Duc désargenté.

[@user-qu2jk7nt9q]

И это "просвещённая" Европа и XIX век. Случись сейчас что-нибудь серьёзное, они также будут убивать и глумиться.

[@lilarosa]

Vine por una carta de amor de María Antonieta y me encuentro con la historia de la Revolución Francesa que ya me tiene re podrida qué canal de farsantes

[@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1948]

No thanks. I'm good.