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“Tragic couples in history”, a book on these love stories that marked their time

In the middle of the holiday season, this may be a book that could interest more than one. The journalist, biographer and historian, Jean des Cars was the guest of Franceinfo to describe his book entitled Tragic couples from history (Perrin). This lover of letters wrote fourteen little stories to depict “the fatality that shatters the destiny of these couples, whether legitimate or illegitimate. For a whole host of reasons their intimate life has been upset or magnified”, explains- he.

There is the case of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. “A tragedy which exceeds them united them forever, relates the writer. They had difficulties to unite physically, to get along, they were very young with problems to face”. There is also the case of Archduke François Ferdinand, assassinated with his only love, Sophie Chotek, on June 28, 1914. What started the First World War.

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