Tea at Trianon: Marie-Antoinette's Birthday

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Marie-Antoinette's Birthday

November 2 is the birthday of Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine-Austria, Queen of France. Here is an account of her birth. More HERE. Share

5 comments:

Matterhorn said...: Happy Birthday!; November 2, 2010 11:26:00 AM EDT
Julygirl said...: It is difficult to look at the painting of her in her cradle knowing what was to be her tragic fate.; November 2, 2010 11:28:00 AM EDT
Matterhorn said...: My goodness, I was just taking a look at Belloc's biography of the Queen- he really didn't like her at all it seems.; November 3, 2010 12:34:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: No, he didn't. It is not one of his better works; it is too colored by his feelings and he makes some historical mistakes. However, it is good when it comes to showing the political side of the Revolution.; November 3, 2010 9:10:00 AM EDT
Matterhorn said...: It's interesting, Marie-Antoinette was born on All Souls Day, and the very next day, November 3, is the birthday of her great-great-etc.-nephew, Leopold III of Belgium, who was also terribly vilified. And oddly, if I recall correctly, All Souls' Day can also be celebrated on November 3, if the 2nd falls on a Sunday.

Weird coincidences...; November 3, 2010 7:41:00 PM EDT

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