Marie antoinette by antonia fraser6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() No more shalt thou be loved and pitied by living hearts, till a new generation has been born, and thy own heart lies cold, cured of all its sorrows. ![]() Weep, fair Queen, they first tears of unmixed wretchedness! Thy fair name has been tarnished by foul breath irremediably while life lasts. Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months sees only lie unfold itself from lie corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger. Red-hatted Cardinal Louis de Rohan Sicilian jailbird Balsamo Cagliostro milliner Dame de Lamotte, “with a face of some piquancy”: the highest Church Dignitaries waltzing, in Walpurgis Dance, with quack-prophets, pickpurses and public women - a whole Satan’s Invisible World dipsplayed working there continually under the daylight visible one the smoke of its torment going up for ever! The Throne has been brought into scandalous collision with the Treadmill. Or consider that unutterable business of the Diamond Necklace. Next biography on the biography shelf is Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Fraser ![]()
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