Marie Antoinette and Fersen meet for the first time during a masked ball (from the film "Marie Antoinette")
It is unknown if the queen of France Marie Antoinette and the Swedish conte by Fersen have had a proper relationship, understood also in a carnal sense, but certainly their bond was so close as to push him to risk his life to save her, and this is an incontrovertible fact, the only one we actually have, since the man's correspondence, with possible evidence in one direction or another, it was destroyed, so we can only proceed by hypothesis.
Considering the ideals of the time and the training path then imparted to the offspring of European aristocratic families, it cannot be excluded that Fersen's feeling for the sovereign stemmed not from the love of a man for a woman, but from what she represented. humanly and politically.
The video found at the bottom of the post (from youtube.com) is a sequence from the movie by Sofia Coppola Marie Antoinette (2006) and reconstructs the first meeting between the two young people , which actually took place during a masked ball ; the count, attracted by the beautiful blonde girl with a half-hidden face present in the room, "engages" with her, discovering only after having found himself in the presence of the Dauphin of France.
In my humble opinion, however, the coquettish and uninhibited attitude that Marie Antoinette shows in this circumstance appears somewhat out of place, as it does not correspond to the typical canons of the education of girls of the time, even more so if it refers to one of the daughters of Maria Teresa , which I doubt could have behaved in such a free and "modern" way in public.