Tea at Trianon: Happy New Year!

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

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Happy New Year!

Marie-Antoinette (center) accompanied to a costume ball by Artois, Monsieur and Madame.

Wishing all the readers of Tea at Trianon a New Year of blessings and joy! Share

8 comments:

julygirl said...: ....and God Bless us all in 2014...may sanity prevail!; December 31, 2013 at 9:50:00 AM EST
Gio said...: Happy New Year to you and your family!; January 1, 2014 at 4:26:00 PM EST
Unknown said...: Trianon has been one of my happiest finds on the net. May the good Mother of God continue to ring you the joys of her Son through 2015.; December 31, 2014 at 8:47:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Thank you so much, Jay! Same to you!; December 31, 2014 at 11:53:00 PM EST
Unknown said...: Happy New Year! Wish you all the best for this year 2016.; January 4, 2016 at 6:43:00 AM EST
Sansa said...: Happy New Year; December 31, 2020 at 5:13:00 PM EST
Camille (TH) said...: Happy New Year 2021

I hope Our King & Queen are in heaven like you've said and bless us too.; December 31, 2020 at 11:23:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: Happy New Year, dear friends! May God grant you many blessings!; January 1, 2021 at 12:15:00 PM EST