Identifier: imperialcourtsof00bidw (find matches)
Title: Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bidwell, Walter Hilliard, 1798-1881, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Courts and courtiers. (from old catalog) Statesmen. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thing to do ; a vast crowd on the tiptoe of expectationfrom daybreak to noon, heaping their ribald insults on adefenceless victim; one little child sending a kiss with itshand to the broken-hearted mother — it was the only timeshe wept on the long, long way to the scaffold — Laveuve de Louis XVI. descendit pom- mourir oii etait mortson mari. La mere de Lotus XVIL tourna un moment lesyeux du cote des Tuileries, et devint plus pale quellenavoit ete jusqualors. Puis la reine de France monta aIechafaud, et se precipita a la mort. 86 THE COURT OF FRANCE. The people shouted out Vive la repuUiquc ! whenSanson held forth the head of Marie Antoinette to theirferocious gaze, Avhilst beneath the guillotine the gendai-meMingault was dipping 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 PROCESS LAMBALLE. Historic trao-edies have their lessons of mstruction toafter-generations; they tell their sad tales of soitow andanguish, which make ears tingle and hearts weej) in sym-pathy. They form graphic chapters in the history of ourcommon humanity, however much we may reluctate toown the relationship). The mind 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 livmg,even amono- our friends and neighbors. Marie Therese Louise Lamballe, of Savoy, Princess ofCarignan, was born at Turin, 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

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