The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 678 pages of information about The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 678 pages of information about The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
pleases the king and the people;
  description of her physical appearance;
  writes to her mother, giving her first impressions of the court and of
    her own position and prospects;
  dislike to the court etiquette;
  intrigues formed against;
  jealousy of the aunts;
  addresses from Paris and the states of Languedoc;
  gaining popularity;
  expresses a wish to learn to ride;
  donkey-riding;
  settlement of income upon;
  introduces sledging parties into France;
  gains admiration from her husband;
  advice of Maria Teresa;
  growing preference of Louis XV. for;
  becomes a horse-woman;
  applying herself to study;
  taste for music acquired by;
  appears at a review at Fontainebleau;
  in the hunting-field;
  writes to her mother early in 1773;
  liberality shown by, to the sufferers by the fire at the Hotel Dieu;
  receives approval from her mother;
  expresses her feelings about Poland;
  state entrance of, into Paris;
  writes to her mother;
  presiding at the banquet of the Dames de la Halle;
  visiting the Parisian theatres;
  writes to her mother on the death of Louis XV.;
  shows her good character upon her accession as queen of France;
  procures the recall from banishment of the Duc de Choiseul;
  receives from the king the pavilion of the Little Trianon;
  desires for private friendships and constant amusements;
  accused of Austrian preferences;
  receives increased allowance as queen;
  visited by the Archduke Maximilian;
  writes to her mother on the coronation of the king;
  gives garden parties at Trianon;
  beauty of;
  shows her mortification at not having children;
  speaks disparagingly of the king;
  writes to her mother extolling the French people;
  indulges at the play-table;
  finds herself in debt and forgeries of her name committed;
  receives the Duke of Dorset and others with favor;
  receives a visit from her brother, the Emperor of Austria;
  writes to her mother concerning the emperor’s visit;
  receives a letter of advice from her brother on his departure from
    France;
  inviting the king’s ministers to the Little Trianon;
  writes political letters;
  expects to become a mother;
  declines to receive Voltaire on his return to France;
  gives birth to a daughter, whom she names Marie Therese Charlotte;
  goes to Notre Dame Cathedral to return thanks;
  goes in a hackney-coach to a bal d’opera;
  is attacked by measles;
  writes to her mother about the war between France and England;
  studies politics;
  engages in private theatricals;
  writes to her mother in the midst of her troubles;
  exhibits great grief at the death of her mother;
  gives birth to a son, the dauphin of France;
  on education;
  receives M. de Suffrein with great honor;
  receives a letter from her brother, the
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