Évelyne Lever
Évelyne Lever is a contemporary French historian and writer. She was married to a French historian, Maurice Lever, who is the author of Sade.
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. It is less extensive than Lever's French version, and was written specifically for an American audience. 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.
She continues to write on and about 18th-century history.
Publications
; French1792, les procès de Louis XVI et de Marie-Antoinette, ComplexeLouis XVIII, Fayard, 1988Louis XVI, Fayard, 1991Mémoires du baron de Breteuil, édition critique, Paris, François Bourin, 1992Marie-Antoinette : La dernière reine, collection « Découvertes Gallimard ». Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2000Madame de Pompadour: A Life, Catherine Temerson, trad. by Catherine Temerson, St. Martin's Press, 2003L'Affaire du Collier, Fayard, 2004Les dernières noces de la monarchie. Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, 2005Lettres intimes : Que je suis heureuse d'être ta femme, Marquis de Bombelles and Marquise de Bombelles, prefaced by Évelyne Lever, Tallandier, 2005C'était Marie-Antoinette, Fayard, 2006Marie-Antoinette, correspondance , edition established and presented by Évelyne LeverMarie-Antoinette : Journal d'une reine, Tallandier, coll. "Texto", 2008Le Chevalier d’Eon : " Une vie sans queue ni tête " , with Maurice Lever, Fayard, 2009; EnglishMarie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000