![]() ![]() Gray does a wonderful job of allowing us a peek into their personal lives, and they come across as believable, human, flawed, and, in the end, lovable, especially Louis, who was careless about his person, naive but genuinely kind, and interested in scholarly pursuits. What surprised me was my own sympathy for Marie and Louis. It similarly details the conditions that led to the downfall of Louis and his queen.īecause this novel is not only about these French monarchs but also about this Swedish aristocrat, the last part of the book reveals more about Fersen’s feckless pursuit of love, his fall from grace in Sweden, and his own ghastly fate. ![]() The narrative tracks Fersen through his journey with Lafayette’s forces to aid the American revolutionaries, his adventures for Sweden’s King Gustavus, his eventual reunion with Marie, and his assumption of the role of loyal family friend. ![]() Gray, a biographer and novelist, based the book on Fersen’s journals and correspondence, and she seeds it with quotations from his papers. ![]()
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