Last Days of Marie Antoinette. An Historical Sketch
The book Last Days of Marie Antoinette. An Historical Sketch was written by author Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 Here you can read free online of Last Days of Marie Antoinette. An Historical Sketch book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Last Days of Marie Antoinette. An Historical Sketch a good or bad book?
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A, No. Io8 LAST DAYS OF She is then accused of having been taken into the confidence of the King, through a letter written to a Minister, regarding the plan of a campaign, with the intention, probably understood, of inciting a civil war. The Queen had never heard of such a letter. However, the President again told her that it was notorious that her influence over the King was such as to make him do as she wished; and this charge, which to us seems not at all an unnatural one, knowing how very w...eak and wavering a man was poor Louis, appeared a capital crime to those who had a few months ago sentenced the King to death, as being the cause of the internecine war and for corresponding with the enemy. MARIE ANTOINETTE. 109 Even the Queen's family name was brought against her as a proof of crime. President Herman declared that as the Queen gave her name as that of Marie Antoinette de Lorraine d'Autriche, it follows that she in- tended seizing Lorraine and transferring it to Germany. " Did you not," he asks, " conceive such a project at the time of your marriage ?
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