Évelyne Lever

[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.