Évelyne Lever (known simply in English as Evelyne Lever) is a contemporary French historian and writer.[1] She was married to a French historian, Maurice Lever, who is the author of Sade.[2]

Lever was previously a research engineer at CNRS, and then began to focus more on 18th-century history. In particular, she focuses on certain people, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Madame de Pompadour.

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France was her first book to be published in the United States.[2] It is less extensive than Lever's French version (Marie-Antoinette : la dernière reine), and was written specifically for an American audience.[1] The book was originally planned to be the basis of Sofia Coppola's 2006 film Marie Antoinette, before her final decision of using Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey instead.[1]

She continues to write on and about 18th-century history.[1]

Publications

French
  • 1792, les procès de Louis XVI et de Marie-Antoinette, Complexe
  • Louis XVIII, Fayard, 1988
  • Louis XVI, Fayard, 1991
  • Mémoires du baron de Breteuil, édition critique, Paris, François Bourin, 1992
  • Marie-Antoinette : La dernière reine, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 402). Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2000
  • Madame de Pompadour: A Life, (with) Catherine Temerson, trad. by Catherine Temerson, St. Martin's Press, 2003
  • L'Affaire du Collier, Fayard, 2004
  • Les dernières noces de la monarchie. Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, 2005
  • Lettres intimes (1778–1782) : Que je suis heureuse d'être ta femme, (written by) Marquis de Bombelles and Marquise de Bombelles, prefaced by Évelyne Lever, Tallandier, 2005
  • C'était Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, 2006
  • Marie-Antoinette, correspondance (1770–1793), edition established and presented by Évelyne Lever
  • Marie-Antoinette : Journal d'une reine, Tallandier, coll. "Texto", 2008
  • Le Chevalier d’Eon : " Une vie sans queue ni tête " , with Maurice Lever, Fayard, 2009
English
  • Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pouyat, Alice (2006). "Spécialiste de Marie-Antoinette, Evelyne Lever a conseillé Sofia Coppola au début du tournage de son long métrage sur la reine. Avant la sortie du film sur les écrans, l'historienne a répondu à vos questions". linternaute.com (in French). Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Biography, Macmillan".


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