Tea at Trianon: Vive le Roi!

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

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Vive le Roi!

Among monarchists in France, all is in readiness for January 21, as can be seen from this video. Share

10 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great and very moving video. I want to share with you and your readers the invitation I found in one of the French royalists blogs:

==LE SOUVENIR DE LOUIS XVI A MARSEILLE

INVITATION

A l’occasion de l’anniversaire de l’exécution du Roi Louis XVI, le 21 janvier 1793,
vous êtes invité à participer à la
MESSE
célébrée par le père ZANOTTI-SORKINE
à la mémoire du Roi Louis XVI et des victimes de la Révolution,
en l'église des Réformés (Haut de la Canebière - 13001 Marseille),
Le samedi 20 janvier 2007 à 12 heures
Avec chants grégoriens, orgues et trompette (Jean-Robert CAIN à l'orgue - Laurent FRISS à la trompette). Œuvres de PURCELL, chorals de BACH.
A 13 heures, après la messe,
REPAS-CONFÉRENCE
au Club du Vieux-Port, 3 place aux Huiles (Marseille 1er) avec la participation de:
-Jean-Baptiste DONNIER, professeur des Universités,
et
-Jean-François MATTEI, professeur à l'lnstitut Universitaire de France,
sur le thème:
"L'exécution de Louis XVI, acte fondateur des totalitarismes modernes et crise de légitimité"
(Prix du repas : 31,50 €)
S'inscrire auprès de la FRP par Courriel (fedroyprov@club-internet.fr) ou par téléphone (06-14-78-04-98)A Aix en Provence:
Dimanche 21 Janvier à 10h30: chapelle N-D de l'Immaculée Conception. Espace Forbin- Bd Gambetta.
Lundi 21 Janvier à 18h30. Chapelle des Pénitents Gris, rue Lieutaud.

== Even when I am not a French citizen nor living in France, I will have a mass said in honor of Louis XVI and will, of course, pray for him together with all those people around the world that will remember him as the martyr he is.- Oh! I found a French Royalist Forum that stroke me hard: It has the image of Aragorn (LOTR) which without words is saying all:The Return of the King. Thanks; January 19, 2007 at 2:33:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Thank you, Maru! Magnifique!
The link to the video was sent to me by fellow monarchist Monsieur de Brantigny. I guess we are all part of the right-wing conspiracy.....; January 19, 2007 at 7:20:00 AM EST
Jeffrey Smith said...: That was one of the most encouraging items I've seen in quite some time.; January 19, 2007 at 7:42:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Let us pray that someday we can all sit together at his beatification.; January 19, 2007 at 8:52:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...: Hello! Yessssss, we are part of the right-wing conspiracy!!!! hahahahahaha! In fact, we are just a part of the ring of dreamers who believe in seeing justice done. (Fellowship of the Royal Family)Thanks for this blog where we, dreamers and believers in justice, in spite of everything, can meet and express our thoughts.
On regards of yhe beatification of the French Royal Family, I wonder why it has taken so long for the Catholic Church to move ahead with it?; January 19, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: I think any time political controversy is involved, it slows up a cause for sainthood. Let us hope someone will act soon....; January 19, 2007 at 11:39:00 AM EST
Anonymous said...: Madame, Thank you for the kind mention. I am not part of the "vast right wing conspiracy" but I am part of the Counter-Revolutionary movement.

As for the Royal family becoming Saints... It doesn't matter if they are placed on the Calendar or not. The Church merely says that they are assuredly in Heaven. There are many, numbers untold, who are in heaven by virtue of saintly heroic lives that we do not even know about. We celebrate their feast on All Saints Day.

It took the Church a long time to affirm the doctine of the Immaculate Conception, yet the Church Militant believed it so for many centuries. The great thing about the Church is it cannot make a mistake, therefore it has literally all the time in the world.

I for one have no doubt that there are more than one St Louis in Heaven. St Louis, King and Martyr; that rings well does it not.

Riv le Roi!
de Brantigny; January 19, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: My sentiments exactly, Monsieur. I was teasing about the "conspiracy;" yes, the correct term is "counter-revolutionary."; January 19, 2007 at 1:24:00 PM EST
jasoncpetty said...: It's fitting and wonderful that the meeting (at the end of the video) will commence at/from a church.; January 19, 2007 at 5:15:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Absolutely, jason! It is as the roi-martyr would have wished!; January 19, 2007 at 5:21:00 PM EST