tiny-librarian: Suddenly the young couple, Louis Auguste and Marie Antoinette, waiting anxiously tog
tiny-librarian: Suddenly the young couple, Louis Auguste and Marie Antoinette, waiting anxiously together in the Dauphine’s apartments and still ignorant of what happened, heard “a terrible noise, exactly like thunder.” It was the sound of rushing feet. The crowd of courtiers hanging around the antechambers of the royal deathbed had instantly deserted them when the news of the King’s decease was broken. All ran towards the rising sun, every man and woman intent on being the first to pay compliments to the new monarch and his wife.Marie Antoinette, The Journey - Antonia Fraser -- source link
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