tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post7719064446902287956..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: The Duchess Flees Bordeauxelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-69016511195602190832014-10-23T23:33:42.672-04:002014-10-23T23:33:42.672-04:00Great insights, Jack! Thank you!Great insights, Jack! Thank you!elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-27200277294643229892014-10-23T23:31:16.677-04:002014-10-23T23:31:16.677-04:00I know some people - including Bonaparte and the ...I know some people - including Bonaparte and the traitorous Clausel - this this was Marie-Therese's greatest hour but to me it has always been the saddest. Even in the most royalist of towns, only a handful would stand by her and none of the soldiers would (the whole idea they would not fight/kill fellow Frenchmen was a joke when you think of the Vendee). I don't know how she even brought herself to go back to France after the mistreatment again by a blinded people (there was no Bonaparte was going to be allowed by the Allies to regain the throne and he no longer had the troops to conquer).<br /><br />I disagree Napoleon would have made a prisoner of her. The old Napoleon would have - and would have shot the Duc as he did their cousin, D'Enghien. But the new Napoleon sent letters to the generals to put the Bourbons on boats out (making sure they had no jewels with them). Making the Orphan of the Temple a prisoner again was something no Bonapartist wanted. Not good P.R. Ney's letter to his troops takes for granted the Bourbons would be exiled - AGAIN.Jack B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10535561070313996833noreply@blogger.com