It just meant that the other biographers (like Weber with Marie Antoinette) MISSED IT. That did not mean that Jefferson did not father children with Sally Hemings. Read Online Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution PDF by Caroline Weber is a great book to read and thats why I recommend reading. Caroline Weber Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution Hardcover Septemby Caroline Weber (Author) 237 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 24.90 41 Used from 2.99 5 New from 24.90 8 Collectible from 15.50 Paperback 22.49 68 Used from 1.86 20 New from 17. There were plenty of biographies of Thomas Jefferson before Annette Gordon-Reed’s that did not mention Sally Hemings. The fact that there are other biographers who came to a different conclusion is meaningless. By doing so, she simply proves that she doesn’t know what a primary source is. To counteract my point that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were nowhere near each other during the week that conception of her second son took place, but that Fersen was documented to have been at the Petit Trianon with the queen that week, Weber offers a slew of other biographies that do not recognize the affair. Similarly, for this study, he used a lock of hair that had no legitimate provenance and could have easily come from any of Marie Antoinette’s children, the older two of whom were unquestionably Louis XVI’s.

If Weber had bothered to investigate further, or even read the study itself, she would have discovered that this is the same geneticist who claimed to have isolated Jesus’s DNA from the Shroud of Turin. In her desperation to prove that Marie Antoinette did not have an affair with Count Axel Fersen, Weber cites a 2019 non-peer-reviewed study by a French geneticist claiming to have proved that Louis XVI was the father of the queen’s second son, Louis XVII.

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