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  1. Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    This time the Empress was supposed to have asked the celebrated healer and pretender to miraculous powers, John Joseph Gassner: "Will my daughter be happy?" His reply was suitably gnomic: "There are crosses for all shoulders." 3
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  2. Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    Kings who become prisoners are not far from death.
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  3. Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    The real work of destruction had been done long before by satire, libel and rumour; Marie Antoinette had become dehumanized. The actual assault by a body of people inspiring each other with their bloodthirsty frenzy was the culmination of the process, not the start of it.
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  4. Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived {and in this case long-desired} advantage is at stake
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  5. Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness!
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  6. Antonia Fraser _ Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. marie antoinette"
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