Marie Antoinette many, leading to doubt as to the parentage of the child and to a noticeable decline of the queen's reputation in public opinion. The majority of Marie Antoinette's and Louis XVII's biographers believe that the young prince was the biological son of Louis XVI, including Stefan Zweig and Antonia Fraser, who believe that Fersen and Marie Antoinette were indeed romantically involved. Courtiers at Versailles noted in their diaries that the date of the child's conception in fact corresponded perfectly with a period when the king and the queen had spent much time together, but these details were ignored amid attacks
Marie Antoinette (watch) Marie Antoinette (watch) The Breguet No. 160" "grand complication, more commonly known as the Marie-Antoinette or the Queen, is a case watch designed by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet. It has been called 'a poem in clockwork'. Work on the watch was begun in 1782 and completed by Breguet's son in 1827, four years after Breguet's death. The watch is a central plot point in the novel "The Grand Complication" by Allen Kurzweil. The watch was to contain every watch function known at that time, including the following: Even by the standards of the day it was an astronomically expensive piece.