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Sleep Story 228 – Marie Antoinette by Hilaire Belloc

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Marie Antoinette by Hillaire Bellock

Marie Antoinette is the most perfect subject of tragedy which history affords. She was petulant or gay, impulsive or collected according to the mood of the moment. Her lapses of judgement betrayed her not to stumbling but to an abyss. Behind such causes of misfortune as can be traced in some appalling order there appear more dreadful because they are mysterious and unreasoned. These accidents united at last. They drove her with a precision that was more than human, right to her predestined end.

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