Tea at Trianon: Death of Fersen

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, June 21, 2015

Death of Fersen

From Vive la Reine:

June 20th, 1810
Axel Fersen, who had been falsely accused of poisoning the Crown Prince of Sweden, was attacked by a mob during the prince’s funeral procession. The guards and police riding with the procession did nothing to halt the attack, which grew from insults and rocks to a vicious assault. Fersen was ultimately beaten and stomped to death.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...: Details.

In 1808-1809 the real King Gustav IV Adolf (not to be confused with the monster of the Thirty Years War, Gustav II Adolf!) had lost Finland to the Czar, who was at the time allied to Napoleon.

He loses the throne to a Cabal of freemasons, who insert his freemason uncle Charles (as Charles XIII) as king in his place.

Since "uncle Charles" was childless, he adopted a Danish prince as Crown prince.

This prince falls off a horse in apoplexy, the fault is not with having eaten too much before exercising too much, no, the problem is that his archiater was also domestic practitioner to von Fersen, and therefore set up to poison the crown prince. This rumour then led to the crowd killing von Fersen.

Note that the crowd must most probably have been relying on someone claiming to have privileged information. Could that have been a freemason?; June 21, 2015 at 11:36:00 AM EDT