X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count
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Enlarge / 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, by Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty. X-ray analysis of letters between the queen and a Swedish count revealed words that had been blacked out, rendering them illegible—until now. Public domain reader comments 96 … Read more