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Marie-Antoinette, the deepest secrets of a queen

The queen's letters will finally reveal her secrets.

For more than two centuries, Marie Antoinette fans have wondered if she really had an affair with the Count of Fersen. Secret correspondence exchanged during the Revolution, miraculously found, contains mysterious erasures that remain illegible to this day. Historians have always been convinced that they hid the key to the enigma. Today, a scientific team is preparing to scan these precious documents preserved in the National Archives. The queen's letters will finally reveal her secrets.