vivelareine: The contrast between the royal mourning and the national exhilaration was something tha
vivelareine: The contrast between the royal mourning and the national exhilaration was something that Marie Antoinette never got over. Eighteen months later she commented to her brother Archduke Leopold on how the French had been in “a delirium” while she struggled to control her sobs. In short, “At the death of my poor little Dauphin, the nation hardly seemed to notice.”’–Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey -- source link