Jean-Baptiste Cléry: Eyewitness to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette's Nightmare

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This biography of JEAN-BAPTISTE CLERY exposes the inner struggles of the young servant who served as the personal valet to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette before their tragic rendezvous with the guillotine.

Incorporating findings from research based on journals and memoires from the late 18th and early 19th century France, the compelling story sheds light on the often neglected aspects of the lives of royal servants including their steadfast loyalty and dedication to the king's family as well as concern for their own personal well-being in dangerous, terrifying circumstances.

JEAN-BAPTISTE CLERY is the first non-fiction work to provide insight into the cultural and psychological world of this tragic royal family from a very different perspective, that of a dedicated servant. Clery was the only personal servant permitted to accompany and remain with Louis and his family in the Temple where they were imprisoned in 1792. Isolated from his family, accused of spying, and eventually imprisoned himself for his loyalty, Clery spent his final days in exile in Austria.

Was Clery wrongly accused of infidelity to the royal family? Was he an agent of the revolutionaries? JEAN-BAPTISTE CLERY separates fact from rumor, and finally unravels the truth about this ordinary man in an extraordinary setting with very extraordinary actors