Marie Antoinette's Youth (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Marie Antoinette's YouthBy expiating her faults upon the guillotine, with a queenly dignity and lofty courage that extorted admiration even from her bitterest calumniators. She had many faults, and yet there can be only a feeling of pity for the little princess, sacrificed for the ambitions of her mother, and sent to France to become the queen of a people who hated her, intrigued against her, and made her the victim of the basest and most unjust libels. The story, as told in these pages, is a picturesque panorama of her young life - her childhood days, espousal, and marriage, the daily routine of her life at Versailles, the old-fashioned etiquette at which she revolted, and the absurd fashions of the time, the intrigues of factions and disappointed favorites, domestic troubles, the life at Trianon, her musical studies, with glimpses of the Gluck - Piccini war, the visits of Voltaire and Rousseau, the incident of the diamond necklace which raised such a storm about the innocent Queen, and finally the outburst of popular hatred which culminated at the guillotine. There is no more fascinating figure in history than that of Marie Antoinette.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.