Tea at Trianon: The Queen is Charged

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

Thursday, April 7, 2011

The Queen is Charged

What were the seven charges made against Marie-Antoinette? Share

1 comment:

lara77 said...: The lies of the republic were so evident in the charges against Her Majesty. A Queen Consort certainly has no role in policy as I am sure the republican stooges knew beforehand. I would rather the savages had come right out and stated they hated the Queen and wanted to execute her. If I recall it was the republic and not the monarchy that caused all the barbarous bloodshed in France. It is the incest charge that is so revolting one cannot comment. It does however shed light on the truly evil men of the republic.; April 8, 2011 at 9:34:00 AM EDT