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Q. France's Queen Marie Antoinette had a powerful Swedish
friend, Count Hans Axel Fersen. How did he die?
R.M., Marlborough
A. Fersen was the victim of mob violence. It was he who raised
the money to attempt to rescue Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI from
their imprisonment by French revolutionaries, and it was he who
personally drove the carriage from Paris to the Porte Saint Martin
as they attempted to flee to the eastern frontier (they got as far
as Varennes, where the carriage w...
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Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
; So, you can live without a personal assistant who brings dozens of pairs of bejeweled, silken shoes to your palace for approval. You might be willing to forgo a circle of chefs creating multicourse meals every night. Of course, you don't need a bedroom full of somber subjects to help you get
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