Tea at Trianon: Spring Market

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

Friday, May 29, 2009

Spring Market

My friend Karen has a lovely shop in Virginia called Fleurish where this month the theme is Marie-Antoinette. Stop by and see her treasures!

Anonymous said...: Pretty frou-frou things! My daughter and I would have a great time shopping there. I'm afraid she'd want to take everything home!; May 29, 2009 at 3:54:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: I would want to take everything home, too!; May 29, 2009 at 8:50:00 AM EDT
~Kathy~ said...: Ooh, very pretty! My daughter and I'd have a wonderful time going through your friend's shop. Too bad it is so very far away from us.; May 29, 2009 at 11:26:00 AM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: I agree, Kathy. Karen does mail order, and has an Etsy shop.; May 29, 2009 at 11:35:00 AM EDT
Katy said...: Those are beautiful!!; May 29, 2009 at 2:49:00 PM EDT
Lucy said...: What a gorgeous place! Thanks for the link:); May 29, 2009 at 3:28:00 PM EDT