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Title: Maria Antoinette
Makers of History

Author: John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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Language: English

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Makers of History

MARIA ANTOINETTE

by

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

With Engravings

New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, by
Harper & Brothers.
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

[Illustration: CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND.]

[Illustration: VIEW OF PARIS.]

PREFACE.

In this history of Maria Antoinette it has been my endeavor to give a
faithful narrative of facts, and, so far as possible, to exhibit the
soul of history. A more mournful tragedy earth has seldom witnessed. And
yet the lesson is full of instruction to all future ages. Intelligence
and moral worth combined can be the only basis of national prosperity or
domestic happiness. But the simple story itself carries with it its own
moral, and the _reflections_ of the writer would encumber rather than
enforce its teachings.

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page

I. PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD 13

II. BRIDAL DAYS 37

III. MARIA ANTOINETTE ENTHRONED 78

IV. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE 105

V. THE MOB AT VERSAILLES