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Marie Antoinette

The Year of Marie Antoinette – Marie Antoinette & The Countess of Provence (Part two)

Read part one here. After becoming Queen, Marie Antoinette had “continued to amuse herself almost childishly with the Provences and the Artois, granting them liberties ordinarily given in families, but suddenly, remembering that she was the Queen, ‘she indulged in remarks on the superiority of her rank and slightly mortifying comparisons for the other princes [read more]