The Queen's Lover

The Queen's Lover

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Esteemed biographer and novelist Francine du Plessix Gray is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. In The Queen's Lover, Gray crafts a sweeping tale about the infamous affair between Marie Antoinette and Swedish nobleman Count Axel Von Fersen. In 1774, the 19-year-old Dauphine of France meets the handsome Count at a masquerade ball in Paris, igniting a decades-long romance that lasts into the French Revolution.

Release date: June 14, 2012

Publisher: Penguin Books

Print pages: 304

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