Tea at Trianon: Otto von Habsburg as Prophet

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

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Otto von Habsburg as Prophet

The effects of communism on cultural and psychological politics in Eastern Europe. An essay by the late Otto von Habsburg. (Via Joshua Snyder)

More on the late Archduke's political activities, HERE. Share

3 comments:

Mercury said...: But if he stood so strongly against the tide of Communism, why did he support the virulently secularist and collectivist European Union, whose political model is more like the Soviet Union than the US (in that the real power is wielded by people untouchable by the electorate)?; July 11, 2011 at 1:35:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...: Thank you for remembering Dr Otto von Habsburg, a true European and a real Christian statesman.; July 11, 2011 at 4:53:00 PM EDT
elena maria vidal said...: Mercury, I do not think HIRH supported it as much as he chose to try to influence it. Thank you, tartout, he was in reality the emperor.; July 11, 2011 at 5:39:00 PM EDT