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Marie Antoinette’s Adultery Unmasked by Modern Science
X-RAY SPECS
Historians have long known of the fond letters exchanged between the queen and a Swedish count, but now X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy reveals their heretofore censored passion.
Nancy Goldstone
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Oct. 30 2021
10:52PM EDT
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