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Maria Theresa: empress, warrior, matriarch

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She Did Not Love Louis as a Husband

Louis loved marie antoinette, but he could not fulfil the role of a romantic love. She knew it was almost an irony to her that they would make her into a harlot when sheis the one person in france was having no sex. Louis went to bed every night at 11, so he would come and spend fromike ten to 11 with her. But one night she just really wanted to get away, so she turned the clock back,. And a louis thought that it was 11 o'clock and went home so she could go out an hour earlier. He discovered ht she'd played this trick on him. Now i'm going to tell you, nobody

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