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MARIE ANTOINETTE. 169
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political queen . The sarcasms king winced wer not e unwitting as he to listened ly admired the to parts by of of the the his " innocent , consort Barber
of Meanwhile Seville , " but the did amiable care but eccentric oppose Josep hobby h II ., paid a visit . to the court of his sister , and failed not to ridicule the
unnatural and elaborate costumes , of the extravagant ladies of Pari of s , remarking her cheeks , that than Mari Hubens e herself had had used for put the more whole pain of t his on one
midst ro cartoons uged , of ; " " these I and mus scarlet sl t , y resemble ly adding furies * a as " sepulchral he " gazed The French death at a lad ' s " head y pleaded still , in more the his
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privacy conclusio for half the and n of morning peace a lad . , y in The ' s a toilet mysterious Parisian , had belle alread temp of le y these infringed hung day with s , upon cerulean reclined her
blu roseate e , with and p subdued ainted nymp the hs air upon perfumed the ceiling with , . those The li numerous ght was
scents which Madame , de Main tenon , had introduced—the impure 46 elegant grateful . confusion Madam odours e , " , with draperied no her doub feet t in rendering arrayed muslin , in the wh ilt i air ch sli was insupportabl ppers ruffled bathed in y
, g , perennial her face in youth mixtures ; it being supposed perchance to be too efficacious wi exp th ensive which for he to preserving purchase said
from to hav Cag e re liostro -invigorated the fabled the elixir ancient of life due , de Richelieu was . Then approached the important hour of coiffure , when fops arrayed itail in
simpere amusement embroidered d court of vests the gossi , with languishing p , powdered and elaborated fair wigs one and ; " fascinating bon who , mots surrounded , confusion " p for g- the b s y ,
her bedecked sentimentall abigails with y , with surveyed careful her embroidery tresses her tawdry flowing , and comp in varied lexion studied , her in spri a g g htl lass y , her
discourse Vanity of by vanities the awful , to disgust ceremony an hones arliament of sticking t Englishman to on , patches and the to .
cn importation ake him si of gh this for most an ludicrous act of p of fooleries , amongst prohibit his too imitative countiywomen . A satire as old as the fifteenth
_century , suits it well . " She'll wear a flowincoronet to-day
g , To The -morrow symbol she of her a waving beauty p ' s lum sad e decay will try ; ,
The emblem of her female levity .
Marie Antoinette. 169
MARIE ANTOINETTE . 169
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/25/
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