Susan Nagel is the author of Marie-Therese, Child of Terror and Mistress of the Elgin Marbles as well as a critically acclaimed book on the novels of Jean Giraudoux. She has written for the stage, screen, as well as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Town and Country. For many years, she was a professor in the humanities department at Marymount Manhattan College. Susan lives in New York City.
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In December 1795, on the midnight stroke of her seventeenth birthday, Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris’s notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents’ br... SEE MORE