Al-ʿAqqād, Maḥmūd ʿAbbās

"Al-Umm... aw al-tārikh al-ḥayy [The Mother... or the Living History] in Al-Risālah: majallah usbūʿiyyah li-l-ādāb waʾl-ʿulūm waʾl-funūn [Arrissalah (The Message). Revue hebdomadaire littéraire scientifique et artistique] [Cairo], Vol. 8: No. 290 [23 January 1939], pp. 145-146

Published by al-Dār al-Qawmiyyah li-l-Ṭibāʿah waʾl-Nashr [National Publication & Printing House], al-Qāhirah [Cairo]

Published online:

http://archive.sakhrit.co/newPreview.aspx?PID=2050511&ISSUEID=12226&AID=239595

https://ar.wikisource.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%AF_290/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85._._._%D8%A3%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%8A

This is a meditation about the tragic life of Marie Antoinette. The renowned Egyptian man of letters Maḥmūd ʿAbbās al-ʿAqqād (1889-1964) quotes as Marie Antoinette's biographer "Stefan Zweig, the greatest contemporary writer of biographies"