
Austria
The Year of Marie Antoinette – The Countess of Artois & Marie Antoinette (Part two)
Read part one here. On 5 August 1776, Marie Thérèse gave birth to her second child. It was a daughter who was named Sophie. When the young girl died after a short illness at the age of 7, Marie Antoinette wrote that “the Comte d’Artois was afflicted as he should have been by the death [read more]