Scientists decipher Antoinette’s redacted love notes
Scientists decipher Antoinette’s redacted love notes
By Christina Larson | Associated Press
WASHINGTON — “Not without you.” “My dear friend.” “You that I love.”
Marie Antoinette sent these expressions of affection — or more? — in letters to her close friend and rumored lover Axel von Fersen. Someone later used dark ink to scribble over the words, apparently to dampen the effusive, perhaps amorous, language.
Scientists in France devised a new method…