French historian and writer
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
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ a b "Biography, Macmillan".
