Tea at Trianon: Music for the Week That Just Was

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

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Music for the Week That Just Was

After much agony, prayer and struggle, the people of America were given a great victory. There is more to come, the war is not over, but we have made a huge step forward to restoring our republic. Share

2 comments:

julygirl said...: For a time at least, we have been saved from Socialism and a borderless, genderless society. If the racial rift widens in this country we will be no better than the Middle Eastern countries who, although they are the same religion, use their differences to commit atrocities upon one another. They refuse to consider the idea of talking and coming to terms about their differences.; November 12, 2016 at 10:42:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Very true. As for the anti-Trump people who keep trying to post comments, stop trying. As soon as I see who you are, I delete.; November 12, 2016 at 4:12:00 PM EST