Tea at Trianon: The Massacre of Innocence

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, August 24, 2025

The Massacre of Innocence

From The Feminist Turned Housewife:

God did not give woman to man so that she might be consumed like prey. He gave her to man so that he would not be alone, so that she could walk with him in his God-given and ordained journey.
God gave men women to be helpers, not hungers to be devoured.
Some men may read this and dismiss my examples as minor, not serious, not worth such weight. But this is what they do not understand about a young girl’s innocence. These comments and actions are like a plague, a virus, a deadly possession that takes hold and only consumes. It was life-changing to me when I was first introduced to the wicked appetites of some men. It disgusted me. It shocked me. It plagued me. And it should trouble us deeply if anyone argues that these are not serious examples. How far have we drifted from any true understanding of sex, and of our own sexuality.
Sex is a fire.
Used wisely, it will keep you warm.
Used foolishly, it will burn you and everything around you down to death, down to dust.
This is the true nature of sex. (Read more.)