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The French Revolution Chapter III - The Characters of the Revolution - the Queen
In which the portrait of Marie Antoinette is drawn with a delicate attention to the vast gulf that lay between her own steadfast energy and the intricate spirit of the French nation; a character marked by a profound misunderstanding of her people's strength, their social will, and the unique qualities of their collective resolve. We observe a woman set apart, whose personal affinities, courtly misunderstandings, and misjudged influence arose from a world foreign to that which she so earnestly ruled, and whose story is coloured by the fragile intimacies and misapprehensions that shaped her…
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