玛丽.安托瓦内特和她的儿子-Muhlbach.pdf

英文名著3000 本 Marie Antoinette And Her Son by Louise Muhlbach 1 英文名著3000 本 BOOK I. CHAPTER I.A HAPPY QUEEN. It was the 13th of August, 1785. The queen, Marie Antoinette, had at last yielded to the requests and protestations of her dear subjects.She had left her fair Versailles and loved Trianon for one day, and had gone to Paris, in order to exhibit herself and the young prince whom she had borne to the king and the country on the 25th of March,and to receive in the cathedral of Notre Dame the blessing of the clergy and the good wishes of the Parisians. She had had an enthusiastic reception, this beautiful and much loved queen, Marie Antoinette. She had driven into Paris in an open carriage, in company with her three children, and every one who recognized her had greeted her with a cheerful huzzah, and followed her on the long 2 英文名著3000 本 road to Notre Dame, at whose door the prominent clergy awaited her, the cardinal, Prince Louis de Rohan, at their head, to introduce her to the house of the King of all kings. Marie Antoinette was alone; only the governess of the children, the Duchess de Polignac, sat opposite her, upon the back seat of the carriage, and by her side the Norman nurse, in her charming variegated district costume, cradling in her arms Louis Charles, the young Duke of Normandy. By her side, in the front part of the carriage, sat her other two children--Therese, the princess royal,the first-born daughter, and the da