Tea at Trianon: Beautiful Blogging

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

Monday, May 25, 2009

Beautiful Blogging

Toronto artist Gabriela Delworth has some reflections on blogging with which I am in complete agreement. Share

3 comments:

RAnn said...: Hi, I'm RAnn and I'd like to invite you to join Sunday Snippets. Sunday Snippets is a chance for Catholic bloggers, whether they blog exclusively about things Catholic, or whether their "Catholic" posts are few and far between, to share with posts and readers with other Catholic bloggers. To participate, go to your blog and create a post titled Sunday Snippets--A Catholic Carnival. In it, highlight and link to one or more of your posts from the last week. Also, provide a link to this post. Next, go to the host post and add your name and URL to Mr. Linky. This week's host post is at http://rannthisthat.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunday-snippets-catholic-carnival_23.html; May 25, 2009 at 8:03:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Thank you, RAnn, I'll check it out!; May 25, 2009 at 9:12:00 AM EDT
May said...: Lovely article by Ms. Delworth. I also agree, I am delighted that this medium exists.; May 25, 2009 at 10:53:00 PM EDT