A princess of adventure; Marie Caroline, duchesse de Berry - Softcover

Williams, Hugh Noel

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ISBN 10: 1231022159 ISBN 13: 9781231022153

Verlag: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...on hearing the joy-bells ringing, exclaimed that they were tolling the death-knell of the House of Bourbon;1 a similar remark is attributed to the Duke of Wellington; and the Comte de Lally wrote to Decazes: "I am daily more inclined to doubt whether it (the birth of the Duc de Bordeaux) is the combination most desirable for France, for the Monarchy, and for this dynasty which is so dear to us; whether the birth of a princess, who might have been betrothed in her cradle to that admirably-trained prince (the Duc de Chartres), would not have been more advantageous to these great interests, more calculated to settle minds, to consolidate the Charter, to dissipate gloom, and to render conciliation necessary. The turn affairs are taking gives room for fear lest new discords may issue from this cradle which was to be the ark of the Covenant and the symbol of re-union." 2 However, the forebodings of clear-sighted men such as these were shared by comparatively few. For the moment, the popular agitation had subsided as if by magic, the threatening clouds had disappeared, and the prospect seemed so fair that the Royalists might well have been excused their jubilation. Yet, had they paused to reflect, they might have recognised that this new-found popularity of the Bourbons--a popularity based on no surer foundation than sympathy for a young widow and a child who would never know a father's care--could not from 1 Comtesse de Boigne, Mimoires. Cited by Imbert de Saint-Amand, la Duchesse de Berry et la Cour de Louis XVIII. its very nature be permanent, unless it were nourished and sustained by a sincere effort to reconcile the Monarchy with the opinions held by the bulk of the nation; and that, in default of such effort, the reaction which must surely follow w...

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• Verlag: RareBooksClub.com
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1231022159
• ISBN 13: 9781231022153
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160