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Title: Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bidwell, W.H. (Walter Hilliard), 1798-1881
Subjects: Courts and courtiers Statesmen
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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g to do ; a vast crowd on the tiptoe of expectationfrom daybreak to noon, heaping their ribald insults on adefenceless victim; one Uttle cliild sending a kiss with itshand to the broken-hearted mother — it was the only tuneshe wept on the long, long way to the scaffold — Laveuve de Louis XVI. descendit pour mourir oii etait mortson mari. La mere de Louis XVII. tourna im moment lesyeux du cote des Tuileries, et devint plus pale quellenavoit ^te jusqualors. Puis la reine de France mouta a.Iechafaud, et se precipita Ti la mort. 86 THE COURT OF FRANCE. The peoj^le shouted out Vive la rejmhliqne ! whenSanson held forth the head of Marie Autouiette to theirferocious gaze, whilst beneath the guillotine the gendaniieMingault was dipphig his handkerchief in the blood of themartyr. Thus terminated this fearful tragedy, which hasseldom been equalled in the history of the world. In thewords of a historian, the death of Marie Antoinette was acalumny to France, — a dishonor to the Revolution.
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THE PRINCESS LAMBALLE. Historic tragedies have their lessons of instruction toafter-generations; they tell their sad tales of sorrow andanguish, which make ears tmgle and hearts weei? in sym-pathy. They form graphic chapters m the history of oiu-common humanity, however much we may reluctate toown the relationship. The mmd almost refuses to believethat the dreadful scenes and tragedies of the French Revo-lution, so forcibly styled the Reign of Terror, occurredin Imperial Paris, the gorgeous capital of France, and themost fashionable emporium of the present modern world,and within the recollection of many persons now Hvmg,even among our friends and neighbors. Marie Therese Louise Lamballe, of Savoy, Princess ofCarignan, was born at Tm-m, September 8, 1749. Shewas married to the Duke of Bourbon Penthievre, by whomshe was left a widow, young, beautiful,, and amiable. Shewas early remarked for her intelligence, sweetness of tem-per, and personal beauty. In 1767, she was married tothe Prin

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